Direction: Masato Harada

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Masato Harada. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Hell Dogs

2022 · Movie · 138 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Junichi Okada · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Mayu Matsuoka · Takamasa Ishihara

Plot Shogo Kanetaka is a police officer, who suffers from trauma when his loved one was murdered. Since that horrific time, Shogo has only thought about revenge. He then receives an...

6.2

79 votes

6.2

79 votes

Sekigahara

2017 · Movie · 150 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Junichi Okada · Kasumi Arimura

Plot A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

Bounce KO Gals

1997 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Hitomi Sato · Yasue Satô · Yukiko Okamoto · Jun Murakami

Plot Lisa is 16. She is leaving for New York tommorow at 11 a.m. She saved some money but she would like to get some more - just in case. As...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Inugami

2001 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

5.4

184 votes

5.4

184 votes

Gunhed

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Masahiro Takashima · Brenda Bakke · James Brewster Thompson · Kaori Mizushima

Plot Brooklyn's smuggling companions are slaughtered, sometimes violently, one by one as they wantonly defy the security systems of the Kyron-5. Babe falls into a vat of green liquid and becomes...

4.6

28 votes

4.6

28 votes

The Suicide Song

2007 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Sayaka Akimoto · Yusuke Iseya · Tomomi Kasai

Plot A thriller centered on an urban legend about a song that fatally affects its listeners.

4.2

30 votes

4.2

30 votes

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

2021 · Movie · 148 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Junichi Okada · Kou Shibasaki · Ryôhei Suzuki · Ryôsuke Yamada

Plot Set in the 19th century, follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.

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Painted Desert

1993 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast James Gammon · Nobu McCarthy · Kazuya Kimura · Priscilla Pointer

Plot A Japanese-American woman and her paralyzed friend and pow in WW2, Barbara, run a desert diner. A mob boss has a ranch nearby and things heat up, when a hitman...

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Killing for the Prosecution

2018 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Kazunari Ninomiya · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Sei Ashina

Plot Mogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money...

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Kamikaze taxi

1995 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Kazuya Takahashi · Mickey Curtis · Reiko Kataoka

Plot A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out...

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Goodbye, Flickmania

1979 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Takuzo Kawatani · Naohiko Shigeta · Atsuko Asano · Hiromitsu Suzuki

Plot Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly...

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Jubaku: Spellbound

1999 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kippei Shiina · Okuji Nakamura

Plot When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure...

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Uindii

1984 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

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The Heartbreak Yakuza

1987 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Chin · Yasuo Daichi · Akira Emoto · Hiromi Gô

Plot A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

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Bluestockings

2005 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kyoko Hasegawa · Yoshino Kimura · Etsushi Toyokawa

Plot Based on a novel by Iwai Shimako, Jiyuu Renai (a.k.a. Bluestockings)is set during the days of Japan's male-dominated Taisho Era (1912-1926), when it was difficult for women to have both...

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Return

2013 · Movie · min. · Japan

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Climbers High

2008 · Movie · 145 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Masato Sakai · Machiko Ono · Masahiro Takashima

Plot A newspaper editor (played by Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.

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The Shadow Spirit

2007 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

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Kakekomi

2015 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Jun Hashimoto · Hana Hizuki · Hyunri · Misuzu Kanno

Plot Set in the Edo period during a time when the divorce rate was actually 2x higher than the present day. A thrift ordinance has been announced by the government and...

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Chronicle of My Mother

2011 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Aoi Miyazaki · Kirin Kiki

Plot "Chronicles Of My Mother" recounts the relationship of an author (Koji Yakusho) and his elderly parents. The author has a strained relationship with his father and his mother's (Kirin Kiki)...

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