Directing
Yoshimitsu Morita
JA cinema · 45 credits
Born
25 January 1950
Died
20 December 2011 (aged 61)
Birthplace
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Also known as Morita Yoshimitsu
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, Screenplay
Abacus and Sword
Director
It's On Me
Director, Writer
South Bound
Adaptation, Writer, Director
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Director
The Mamiya Brothers
Director, Screenplay
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
as Movie Director
Like Asura
Director
Copycat Killer
Director, Screenplay
Colorful
Screenplay
The Black House
Director
Keiho
Director
Sleepless Town
as Gambler
You Alone Can't See
Screenplay
Lost Paradise
Director
Haru
Director, Screenplay
Future Memories: Last Christmas
Director, Screenplay
A Desirable Marriage
Screenplay, Director
Bakayarō! 4 You!
Screenplay
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
Writer, Executive Producer
24 Hour Playboy
Screenplay, Director
Kitchen
Writer, Director
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Writer, Executive Producer
Love and Action in Osaka
Screenplay, Director
For Business
Director, Writer
The House of Wedlock
Screenplay
And Then
Director
Main Theme
Director, Screenplay
Deaths in Tokimeki
Director, Screenplay
The Family Game
Director, Screenplay
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Director, Screenplay
Sannen-me no Uwaki
Screenplay
Top Stripper
Director, Screenplay
Come On Girls!
Screenplay, Director
Something Like It
Writer, Director
The Steam Express
Editor, Director of Photography, Director
