Yoshimitsu Morita
Known for: Directing
Born: January 25, 1950
Died: December 20, 2011
Place of birth: Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Yoshimitsu Morita was a Japanese film director. Self-taught, first making shorts on 8 mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature film debut with No Yōna Mono (Something Like It, 1981). In 1983 he won acclaim for his movie Kazoku Gēmu ("The Family Game"), which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll. This black comedy dealt with then-recent changes in the structure of Japanese home life. It also earned Morita the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. He also won the award for best director at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō ("Keiho", 2003) and the award for best screenplay at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for Haru (1996).
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Filmography
45 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
10.0
Something Like, Something Like It
2016
6.0
Train Brain Express
2012
6.2
Abacus and Sword
2010
NR
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
NR
It's On Me
2009
6.3
Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007
6.0
South Bound
2007
5.4
The Mamiya Brothers
2006
3.3
Umineko - Inseparable
2004
7.3
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
6.6
Like Asura
2003
7.2
Copycat Killer
2002
5.5
Colorful
2000
6.1
The Black House
1999
6.3
Keiho
1999
NR
You Alone Can't See
1998
7.4
Sleepless Town
1998
7.2
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
6.0
Lost Paradise
1997
8.0
Haru
1996
6.5
I Don't Have a License!
1994
7.3
Future Memories: Last Christmas
1992
9.0
Bakayarō! 4 You!
1991
7.0
A Desirable Marriage
1991
7.0
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
1990
7.0
Kitchen
1989
7.5
24 Hour Playboy
1989
8.0
Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
1989
5.2
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
8.0
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
8.0
The House of Wedlock
1986
8.0
For Business
1986
7.2
And Then
1985
6.4
Main Theme
1984
7.2
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
2.7
Sannen-me no Uwaki
1983
6.9
The Family Game
1983
4.9
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
1983
5.2
Top Stripper
1982
6.3
Come On Girls!
1982
5.0
Something Like It
1981
NR
Live in Chigasaki
1978
NR
The Steam Express
1976
NR
Industrial Area
1972
NR
The Weather Report
1971