Masato Harada

Japanese film director, critic, and actor

Born

3 July 1949, Numazu

Died

8 December 2025

Citizenship

Japan

Occupation

film director, film critic, film actor, screenwriter, director

Films here

3 (1 as director, 2 as cast)

Masato Harada (原田 眞人, Harada Masato; July 3, 1949 – December 8, 2025) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, critic and occasional actor. He was nominated five times for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Director, among other accolades.

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Tom Cruise
• Ken Watanabe
• Shin Koyamada
• Hiroyuki Sanada
• Koyuki
• Togo Igawa
• William Atherton
• Sosuke Ikematsu

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q11330 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.