Masato Harada (原田 眞人, Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949) is a Japanese film director, film critic, and occasional 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.

He then attended Tokyo College of Photography and Pepperdine University, where he spent number of years training as a filmmaker.

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