Yoshimitsu Morita

Born: 1950-01-25

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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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

as Movie Director
Released: 2004-05-08

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep...

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Sleepless Town

as Gambler
Released: 1998-06-27

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except...

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Tokyo Fair Weather

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-18

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading...

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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda

as uncredited
Released: 2009-11-06

Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the...

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