Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 25, 1950
Died
Dec 20, 2011
Place of Birth
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Credits
45 titles
Yoshimitsu Morita
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
Something Like, Something Like It
Original Film Writer
Train Brain Express
Director
Abacus and Sword
Director
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
It's On Me
Director
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Director
South Bound
Adaptation
The Mamiya Brothers
Director
Umineko - Inseparable
Director
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Movie Director
Like Asura
Director
Copycat Killer
Director
Colorful
Screenplay
The Black House
Director
Keiho
Director
You Alone Can't See
Screenplay
Sleepless Town
Gambler
Tokyo Fair Weather
Lost Paradise
Director
Haru
Director
I Don't Have a License!
Writer
Future Memories: Last Christmas
Director
Bakayarō! 4 You!
Screenplay
A Desirable Marriage
Screenplay
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
Writer
Kitchen
Writer
Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
Writer
24 Hour Playboy
Screenplay
Love and Action in Osaka
Screenplay
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Writer
The House of Wedlock
Screenplay
For Business
Director
And Then
Director
Main Theme
Director
Deaths in Tokimeki
Director
Sannen-me no Uwaki
Screenplay
The Family Game
Director
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Director
Top Stripper
Director
Come On Girls!
Screenplay
Something Like It
Writer
Live in Chigasaki
Director
The Steam Express
Editor
Industrial Area
Director
The Weather Report
Director