Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 3, 1949
Died
December 8, 2025 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
Masato Harada
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.
Known For
Acting
Directing
Bad Lands
Screenplay, Director, Producer
2023
Hell Dogs
Director, Screenplay
2022
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Director, Screenplay
2021
Killing for the Prosecution
Director, Screenplay
2018
Sekigahara
Director, Editor, Screenplay
2017
The Emperor in August
Screenplay, Director
2015
Kakekomi
Director, Screenplay
2015
Chronicle of My Mother
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2012
Climber's High
Director, Adaptation
2008
Inugami
Writer, Director, Screenplay
2001
Ring 2
Producer
1999
The Spiral
Producer
1998