Yoshimitsu Morita
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-01-25
Day of Death
2011-12-20 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Acting
(2009)
(2004)
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
as Movie Director
(1998)
Sleepless Town
as Gambler
(1997)
Crew
(2016)
Something Like, Something Like It
Original Film Writer
(2012)
Train Brain Express
Director, Screenplay
(2010)
Abacus and Sword
Director
(2009)
It's On Me
Writer, Director
(2007)
South Bound
Director, Adaptation, Writer
(2007)
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Director
(2006)
The Mamiya Brothers
Director, Screenplay
(2004)
Umineko - Inseparable
Director
(2003)
Like Asura
Director
(2002)
Copycat Killer
Director, Writer
(2000)
Colorful
Screenplay
(1999)
The Black House
Director
(1999)
Keiho
Director
(1998)
You Alone Can't See
Screenplay
(1997)
Lost Paradise
Director
(1996)
Haru
Director, Writer
(1994)
Menkyo ga nai!
Writer
(1992)
Future Memories: Last Christmas
Director, Screenplay
(1991)
A Desirable Marriage
Screenplay, Director
(1991)
Bakayarō! 4 You!
Screenplay
(1989)
24 Hour Playboy
Screenplay, Director
(1989)
Kitchen
Director, Writer
(1989)
(1988)
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Writer, Executive Producer
(1988)
Love and Action in Osaka
Screenplay, Director
(1986)
For Business
Director, Writer
(1986)
The House of Wedlock
Screenplay
(1985)
And Then
Director
(1984)
Main Theme
Director, Screenplay
(1984)
Deaths in Tokimeki
Director, Screenplay
(1983)
The Family Game
Director, Screenplay
(1983)
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Director, Screenplay
(1983)
Sannen-me no Uwaki
Screenplay
(1982)
Top Stripper
Director, Screenplay
(1982)
Come On Girls!
Director, Screenplay
(1981)
Something Like It
Director, Writer
(1978)
Live in Chigasaki
Director
(1976)
The Steam Express
Director of Photography, Editor, Director
(1972)
Industrial Area
Director
(1971)
The Weather Report
Director