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