Masato Harada (原ç"° 眞人, Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949) 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. In both his acting roles he portrayed the villain
who wants Japan to westernize under the Meiji Restoration in the
meantime trying to remove the old ways.Harada was born in Numazu,
Shizuoka and graduated from Higashi High School. In 1972 he went to
London to learn English. He then attended Tokyo College of Photography
and Pepperdine University, where he spent number of years training as
a filmmaker. He married journalist Mizuho Fukuda in 1976.Harada made
his directorial debut in 1979. He collaborated and showcased his works
in Europe and US and worked as an English to Japanese subtitle
translator for number of American films showing in Japan.As an actor,
he appeared in Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai in 2003. and Ronny Yu's
Fearless in 2006.
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. In both his acting roles he portrayed the villain
who wants Japan to westernize under the Meiji Restoration in the
meantime trying to remove the old ways.Harada was born in Numazu,
Shizuoka and graduated from Higashi High School. In 1972 he went to
London to learn English. He then attended Tokyo College of Photography
and Pepperdine University, where he spent number of years training as
a filmmaker. He married journalist Mizuho Fukuda in 1976.Harada made
his directorial debut in 1979. He collaborated and showcased his works
in Europe and US and worked as an English to Japanese subtitle
translator for number of American films showing in Japan.As an actor,
he appeared in Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai in 2003. and Ronny Yu's
Fearless in 2006.
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