Directing • AGE 76
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.


Bad Lands
Screenplay
2023

Hell Dogs
Director
2022

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Director
2021

Killing for the Prosecution
Director
2018

Sekigahara
Director
2017

The Emperor in August
Screenplay
2015

Kakekomi
Director
2015

Chronicle of My Mother
Director
2012

Early Autumn
Director
2011

Climber's High
Director
2008

The Shadow Spirit
Director
2007

The Suicide Song
Writer
2007

Fearless
Mita
2006

Beat Kids
Writer
2005

Bluestockings
Writer
2005

The Last Samurai
Omura
2003

The Choice of Hercules
Director
2002

Inugami
Writer
2001

Jubaku: Spellbound
Director
1999

Ring 2
Producer
1999

The Spiral
Producer
1998

Bounce Ko Gals
Director
1997

The President's Christmas Tree
Adaptation
1996

Rowing Through
Director
1996

Trouble-Shooters
Director
1995

Kamikaze Taxi
Director
1995

Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Director
1994

Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
Director
1992

Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
Director
1991

Tuff Part III - Business Killing
Director
1991

Tuff Part II - Revenge
Screenplay
1991

Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
Writer
1990

Tuff Part I - Origin
Director
1990

Gunhed
Director
1989

The Heartbreak Yakuza
Director
1987

Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Screenplay
1986

Paris/Dakar 1500
Writer
1986

Terra Warrior Ψ BOY
Writer
1985

Out of Focus
Director
1985

Windy Story
Director
1984

Goodbye, Flickmania
Screenplay
1979