Masato Harada

Director

Born: July 3, 1949
Died: December 8, 2025 (age 76)
From: Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone

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.

Filmography (34)

Bad Lands (2023)
Director
Hell Dogs (2022)
Director
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai (2021)
Director
Killing for the Prosecution (2018)
Director
Sekigahara (2017)
Director
The Emperor in August (2015)
Director
Kakekomi (2015)
Director
Chronicle of My Mother (2012)
Director
Early Autumn (2011)
Director
Climber's High (2008)
Director
The Shadow Spirit (2007)
Director
The Suicide Song (2007)
Director
Fearless (2006)
Mita
Bluestockings (2005)
Director
The Last Samurai (2003)
Omura
The Choice of Hercules (2002)
Director
Inugami (2001)
Director
Jubaku: Spellbound (1999)
Director
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
Director
Rowing Through (1996)
Director
Trouble-Shooters (1995)
Director
Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
Director
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition (1994)
Director
Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology (1992)
Director
Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood (1991)
Director
Tuff Part III - Business Killing (1991)
Director
Tuff Part I - Origin (1990)
Director
Gunhed (1989)
Director
The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987)
Director
Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis! (1986)
Director