Masato Harada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Masato Harada

Japanese film director, critic, and actor

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1949

Place of Birth: Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film critic, film actor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Masato Harada (?? ??, 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.