Masato Harada

Masato Harada
Born (1949-07-03) July 3, 1949 (age 75)
Occupation(s)Film director, film critic, actor
Years active1979–present
Spouse
Mizuho Fukuda
(m. 1976)
ChildrenEugene Harada

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. 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.