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).
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Movies (45)
Something Like, Something Like It
Original Film Writer (Writing)
2016
Train Brain Express
Director (Directing)
2012
Abacus and Sword
Director (Directing)
2010
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
It's On Me
Director (Directing)
2009
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Director (Directing)
2007
South Bound
Adaptation (Writing)
2007
The Mamiya Brothers
Director (Directing)
2006
Umineko - Inseparable
Director (Directing)
2004
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
as Movie Director
2004
Like Asura
Director (Directing)
2003
Copycat Killer
Writer (Writing)
2002
Colorful
Screenplay (Writing)
2000
The Black House
Director (Directing)
1999
Keiho
Director (Directing)
1999
You Alone Can't See
Screenplay (Writing)
1998
Sleepless Town
as Gambler
1998
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
Lost Paradise
Director (Directing)
1997
Haru
Director (Directing)
1996
Haru
Director (Directing)
1995
I Don't Have a License!
Writer (Writing)
1994
Future Memories: Last Christmas
Director (Directing)
1992
Bakayarō! 4 You!
Screenplay (Writing)
1991
A Desirable Marriage
Screenplay (Writing)
1991
Kitchen
Writer (Writing)
1989
24 Hour Playboy
Screenplay (Writing)
1989
Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
Writer (Writing)
1989
Love and Action in Osaka
Screenplay (Writing)
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Writer (Writing)
1988
The House of Wedlock
Screenplay (Writing)
1986
For Business
Director (Directing)
1986
And Then
Director (Directing)
1985
Main Theme
Director (Directing)
1984
Deaths in Tokimeki
Director (Directing)
1984
Sannen-me no Uwaki
Screenplay (Writing)
1983
The Family Game
Director (Directing)
1983
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Director (Directing)
1983
Top Stripper
Director (Directing)
1982
Come On Girls!
Screenplay (Writing)
1982
Something Like It
Writer (Writing)
1981
Live in Chigasaki
Director (Directing)
1978
The Steam Express
Editor (Editing)
1976
Industrial Area
Director (Directing)
1972
The Weather Report
Director (Directing)
1971