Masato Harada

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Masato Harada (原田眞人 Harada Masato, alt. 原田真人 Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949 in Numazu, Shizuoka) is a Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to Western audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai. It is interesting to note that in both of the films he has so far acted, his characters look and act essentially identical — a bespectacled antagonistic Japanese meiji-era governmental figure who embraces western customs at the expense of the traditional Japanese way-of-life.

[edit] Directing Filmography

1. Bluestockings (2005)
2. The Choice of Hercules (2002)
3. Inugami (2001)
4. Spellbound (1999)
5. Bounce ko gals (1997)
6. Rowing Through (1996)
7. Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
8. Painted Desert (1993)
9. Tuff 5 (1992)
10. Gunhed (1989)
11. The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987)
12. Paris/Dakar 1500 (1986)
13. Uindii (1984)
14. Farewell, Movie Friend: Indian Summer (1979)

[edit] Acting Filmography

1. Fearless (2006) as Mr. Mita
2. The Last Samurai (2003) as Mr. Omura

[edit] External links

• Masato Harada's IMDb Listing
• Masato Harada's JMDb Listing
• Interview at Midnight Eye