A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
Born:
July 3, 1949
Masato Harada 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.
Adaptation:
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
2008 Climber's High
Director:
1979 Goodbye, Flickmania
1984 Windy Story
1985 Out of Focus
1986 Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
1986 Paris/Dakar 1500
1987 The Heartbreak Yakuza
1989 Gunhed
1990 Tuff Part I - Origin
1991 Tuff Part III - Business Killing
1991 Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
1992 Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1995 Kamikaze Taxi
1995 Trouble-Shooters
1996 Rowing Through
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
1997 Bounce Ko Gals
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
2001 Inugami
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2005 Bluestockings
2007 The Shadow Spirit
2007 The Suicide Song
2008 Climber's High
2012 Chronicle of My Mother
2015 Kakekomi
2015 The Emperor in August
2017 Sekigahara
2018 Killing for the Prosecution
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 Hell Dogs
2023 Bad Lands
Editor:
1979 Goodbye, Flickmania
1984 Windy Story
1985 Out of Focus
1986 Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
1986 Paris/Dakar 1500
1987 The Heartbreak Yakuza
1989 Gunhed
1990 Tuff Part I - Origin
1991 Tuff Part III - Business Killing
1991 Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
1992 Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1995 Kamikaze Taxi
1995 Trouble-Shooters
1996 Rowing Through
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
1997 Bounce Ko Gals
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
2001 Inugami
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2005 Bluestockings
2007 The Shadow Spirit
2007 The Suicide Song
2008 Climber's High
2012 Chronicle of My Mother
2015 Kakekomi
2015 The Emperor in August
2017 Sekigahara
2018 Killing for the Prosecution
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 Hell Dogs
2023 Bad Lands
Producer:
1979 Goodbye, Flickmania
1984 Windy Story
1985 Out of Focus
1986 Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
1986 Paris/Dakar 1500
1987 The Heartbreak Yakuza
1989 Gunhed
1990 Tuff Part I - Origin
1991 Tuff Part III - Business Killing
1991 Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
1992 Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1995 Kamikaze Taxi
1995 Trouble-Shooters
1996 Rowing Through
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
1997 Bounce Ko Gals
1998 The Spiral
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
1999 Ring 2
2001 Inugami
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2005 Bluestockings
2007 The Shadow Spirit
2007 The Suicide Song
2008 Climber's High
2012 Chronicle of My Mother
2015 Kakekomi
2015 The Emperor in August
2017 Sekigahara
2018 Killing for the Prosecution
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 Hell Dogs
2023 Bad Lands
Screenplay:
1979 Goodbye, Flickmania
1984 Windy Story
1985 Out of Focus
1986 Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
1986 Paris/Dakar 1500
1987 The Heartbreak Yakuza
1989 Gunhed
1990 Tuff Part I - Origin
1991 Tuff Part II - Revenge
1991 Tuff Part III - Business Killing
1991 Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
1992 Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1995 Kamikaze Taxi
1995 Trouble-Shooters
1996 Rowing Through
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
1997 Bounce Ko Gals
1998 The Spiral
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
1999 Ring 2
2001 Inugami
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2005 Bluestockings
2007 The Shadow Spirit
2007 The Suicide Song
2008 Climber's High
2012 Chronicle of My Mother
2015 Kakekomi
2015 The Emperor in August
2017 Sekigahara
2018 Killing for the Prosecution
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 Hell Dogs
2023 Bad Lands
Writer:
1979 Goodbye, Flickmania
1984 Windy Story
1985 Out of Focus
1985 Terra Warrior Ψ BOY
1986 Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
1986 Paris/Dakar 1500
1987 The Heartbreak Yakuza
1989 Gunhed
1990 Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
1990 Tuff Part I - Origin
1991 Tuff Part II - Revenge
1991 Tuff Part III - Business Killing
1991 Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
1992 Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1995 Kamikaze Taxi
1995 Trouble-Shooters
1996 Rowing Through
1996 The President's Christmas Tree
1997 Bounce Ko Gals
1998 The Spiral
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
1999 Ring 2
2001 Inugami
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2005 Beat Kids
2005 Bluestockings
2007 The Shadow Spirit
2007 The Suicide Song
2008 Climber's High
2012 Chronicle of My Mother
2015 Kakekomi
2015 The Emperor in August
2017 Sekigahara
2018 Killing for the Prosecution
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 Hell Dogs
2023 Bad Lands
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.