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Film director, writter and actor, Masato Harada was born in Numazu, Japan, on July 3, 1949. The first movie he saw was The Search (1948) by Fred Zinnemann. The episode in which Montgomery Clift hands the war orphan (played by Ivan Jandl) a piece of bread became Harada’s primal screen image. He was influenced by the realistic nature of the earlier works in black and white of Lumet, Pontecorvo, Frankenheimer and Kurosawa. His very first encounter with film making scene took place some time in 1954, when Akira Kurosawa was filming Seven Samurai in Gotemba, near Harada’s hometown. Soon afterwards, he became a fan of chanbara jidaigeki, period films with samurai swordsplay, from Toei Company.
In the summer of 1972, he visited San Sebastian Film Festival as a Kinema Jumpo correspondent, where Howard Hawks was invited as the president of jury. He met his mentor in San Sebastian. Their “relationship” lasted for five years til Hawks’ death in 1977.
Harada moved to Los Angeles in 1973. He married to a journalist, Mizuho Fukuda in 1976. In 1979, he wrote and directed his first feature, Goodbye Flickmania, a Hawksian buddy movie. Since then, he has written the screenplays of the films he has directed. On the Halloween in 2002, Harada made an acting debut as Omura in The Last Samurai.
The films of Masato Harada as director are: Goodbye Flickmania (1979), Windy (1984), Onyanko the Movie (1986), The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987), Gunhead (1988), Painted Desert (1993), Kamikaze Taxi (1994), Trouble with Nango (1995), Rowing Through (1996), Bounce KO Gals (1997), Jubaku/Spellbound (1999), Inugami (2001), Totsunyuuseyo! Asama Sanso Jiken (The Choice of Hercules, 2002), Jiyuu Reani (Bluestokings) (2005), Densen Uta (The Suicide Song) (2007), Moryo no Hako (The Shadow Spirit) (2007), Kuraimazu Hai (Climber’s High) (2008).
As actor he has worked in The Last Samurai (2003) and Spirit (2006).
He has been nominated on three occasions by the Japanese Film Academy: as best director for Jubaku/Spellbound (1999), and as best director and for best script for Totsunyuuseyo! Asama Sanso Jiken (The Choice of Hercules, 2002).
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