Masato Harada
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 3, 1949, Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
- Died
- December 8, 2025
- Movies
- 40
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2006 | Fearless | Mita |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Omura |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2023 | Bad Lands | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 2022 | Hell Dogs | Director, Screenplay |
| 2021 | Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai | Director, Screenplay |
| 2018 | Killing for the Prosecution | Director, Screenplay |
| 2017 | Sekigahara | Director, Screenplay |
| 2015 | The Emperor in August | Director, Screenplay |
| 2015 | Kakekomi | Director, Screenplay |
| 2012 | Chronicle of My Mother | Director, Screenplay |
| 2011 | Early Autumn | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Climber's High | Director, Screenplay |
| 2007 | The Shadow Spirit | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | The Suicide Song | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | Beat Kids | Writer |
| 2005 | Bluestockings | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | The Choice of Hercules | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | Inugami | Director, Writer, Screenplay |
| 1999 | Jubaku: Spellbound | Director |
| 1999 | Ring 2 | Producer |
| 1998 | The Spiral | Producer |
| 1997 | Bounce Ko Gals | Director, Writer |
| 1996 | Rowing Through | Director |
| 1995 | Trouble-Shooters | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Kamikaze Taxi | Director, Writer |
| 1994 | Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1992 | Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology | Director, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood | Director, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Tuff Part III - Business Killing | Director, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Tuff Part II - Revenge | Screenplay |
| 1990 | Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero | Writer |
| 1990 | Tuff Part I - Origin | Director, Screenplay |
| 1989 | Gunhed | Director, Screenplay |
| 1987 | The Heartbreak Yakuza | Director, Screenplay |
| 1986 | Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis! | Screenplay, Director |
| 1986 | Paris/Dakar 1500 | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Terra Warrior Ψ BOY | Writer |
| 1985 | Out of Focus | Director |
| 1984 | Windy Story | Director, Writer |
| 1979 | Goodbye, Flickmania | Director, Screenplay |
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