Masato Harada
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.
Filmography
Bad Lands
Director
2023
Hell Dogs
Director
2022
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Director
2021
Killing for the Prosecution
Director
2018
Sekigahara
Director
2017
The Emperor in August
Director
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
Director
2007
Fearless
Mita
2006
Beat Kids
Writer
2005
Bluestockings
Director
2005
The Last Samurai
Omura
2003
The Choice of Hercules
Director
2002
Inugami
Director
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
Director
1986
Terra Warrior Ψ BOY
Writer
1985
Out of Focus
Director
1985
Windy Story
Director
1984
Goodbye, Flickmania
Director
1979