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Masato Harada
Director 1949 - 2025

Masato Harada

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.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi

Nihon no ichiban nagai hi

Masato Harada 2015 2h 16m

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Inugami

Inugami

Masato Harada 2001 1h 46m 4.0

Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.

Baunsu ko gaurusu

Baunsu ko gaurusu

Masato Harada 1997 1h 50m

Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating. Raku is a street dancer. Togo was brought up in the US, and after being back in Japan for one year, wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

Kamikaze takushi

Kamikaze takushi

Masato Harada 1995 2h 49m

A revenge-seeking man and his foolish friends plan to rob a yakuza gang.

Gunhed

Gunhed

Masato Harada 1989 1h 40m

High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world.

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