Masato Harada

Director

Born: July 3, 1949 (76 years old)

Died: December 8, 2025

Place of birth: Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone

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.

Filmography (20)

• The Last Samurai (2003, ★ 7.6)
• Fearless (2006, ★ 7.5)
• The Choice of Hercules (2002, ★ 8)
• Ring 2 (1999, ★ 5.8)
• Bounce Ko Gals (1997, ★ 6.7)
• Climber's High (2008, ★ 6.1)
• Chronicle of My Mother (2012, ★ 6.6)
• Kamikaze Taxi (1995, ★ 6.2)
• The Emperor in August (2015, ★ 6.4)
• Hell Dogs (2022, ★ 7)
• Sekigahara (2017, ★ 7)
• Killing for the Prosecution (2018, ★ 6.3)
• Bad Lands (2023, ★ 7)
• Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai (2021, ★ 6.7)
• Gunhed (1989, ★ 4.6)
• The Spiral (1998, ★ 5.3)
• Inugami (2001, ★ 5)
• Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990, ★ 5.3)
• Kakekomi (2015, ★ 5.9)
• The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987, ★ 4.7)