Masato Harada
- Directing
- July 3, 1949 · Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
- December 8, 2025
Biography
Masato Harada is a Japanese film director, film critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.
Known for
Filmography
- Bad Lands · Screenplay, Director
- Hell Dogs · Director, Screenplay
- Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai · Director, Screenplay
- Killing for the Prosecution · Director, Screenplay
- Sekigahara · Director, Screenplay
- The Emperor in August · Screenplay, Director
- Kakekomi · Director, Screenplay
- Chronicle of My Mother · Director, Screenplay
- Early Autumn · Director, Writer
- Climber's High · Director, Screenplay
- The Shadow Spirit · Director, Writer
- The Suicide Song · Writer, Director
- Fearless · Mita
- Beat Kids · Writer
- Bluestockings · Writer, Director
- The Last Samurai · Omura
- The Choice of Hercules · Director, Screenplay
- Inugami · Writer, Director
- Jubaku: Spellbound · Director
- Ring 2 · Producer
- The Spiral · Producer
- Bounce Ko Gals · Director, Writer
- The President's Christmas Tree · Adaptation
- Rowing Through · Director
- Trouble-Shooters · Director, Writer
- Kamikaze Taxi · Director, Writer
- Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition · Director, Writer
- Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology · Director, Screenplay
- Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood · Director, Screenplay
- Tuff Part III - Business Killing · Director, Screenplay
- Tuff Part II - Revenge · Screenplay
- Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero · Writer
- Tuff Part I - Origin · Director, Screenplay
- Gunhed · Director, Screenplay
- The Heartbreak Yakuza · Director, Screenplay
- Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis! · Screenplay, Director
- Paris/Dakar 1500 · Writer, Director
- Terra Warrior Ψ BOY · Writer
- Out of Focus · Director
- Windy Story · Director, Writer
- Goodbye, Flickmania · Screenplay, Director