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Interview with Masato Harada on The Last Samurai, research, and playing a villain. The interview took place at the December 2003 premiere in Hollywood, Ca.-...
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Synopsis. In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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Aug 8, 2015 · The Emperor in August: Directed by Masato Harada. With Koji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi. The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night?
Sep 16, 2022 · Hell Dogs: Directed by Masato Harada. With Jun'ichi Okada, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mayu Matsuoka, Miyavi. A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
Synopsis. The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Masato Harada has been working as a director and scriptwriter for four decades. Since the 2000s, he has become known for densely plotted, dialogue-heavy films based on Japanese history (2015’s ...
The battle has never been depicted in its entirety on screen, however, until Masato Harada tackled it for his new epic "Sekigahara," based on Ryotaro Shiba's classic three-volume historical novel.