FILM DIRECTOR

Masato Harada

1949 - Today

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Masato Harada (原田 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masato Harada has received more than 197,817 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Masato Harada is the 911th most popular film director, the 1,157th most popular biography from Japan and the 41st most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Masato Harada ranks 911 out of 2,041. Before him are Želimir Žilnik, Wolfgang Staudte, Kad Merad, Lev Atamanov, Michel Brault, and Walter Lang. After him are Steven Zaillian, Kim Jee-woon, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Karel Kachyňa, Jørgen Leth, and Chad Stahelski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Masato Harada ranks 363. Before him are Gyude Bryant, Rodrigo Rato, Bogdan Borusewicz, Gil Scott-Heron, Daniel Killer, and Manfred Burgsmüller. After him are Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Leopoldo Brenes, Graham Swift, Natalia Kuchinskaya, Stephen Gyllenhaal, and Ivan Kostov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masato Harada ranks 1,157 out of 6,245. Before him are Hisao Sekiguchi (1954), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Yasushi Akimoto (1958), Akemi Iwata (1954), Shozo Sasahara (1929), and Yōko Ogawa (1962). After him are Ayako Wakao (1933), Masamune Shirow (1961), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), and Hirotugu Akaike (1927).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Masato Harada ranks 41. Before him are Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Sion Sono (1961), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Tadashi Imai (1912), and Yasushi Akimoto (1958). After him are Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), Hideo Nakata (1961), Masaaki Yuasa (1965), Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Kei Kumai (1930), and Kihachi Okamoto (1924).

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Filmography

Hell Dogs
Director
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
Sep 16o 20227.1 / 10
Sekigahara
Director
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Aug 26o 20176.915 / 10
Inugami
Director
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
Jan 27o 20015.25 / 10