
Yoshimitsu Morita
Directing
Born: 1950-01-25 · Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Died: 2011-12-20
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
🎬 Movies (30)

Something Like, Something Like It
2016
Original Film Writer

Train Brain Express
2012
Director

Abacus and Sword
2010
Director

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009

It's On Me
2009
Director

South Bound
2007
Director

Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007
Director

The Mamiya Brothers
2006
Director

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Movie Director

Umineko - Inseparable
2004
Director

Like Asura
2003
Director

Copycat Killer
2002
Director

Colorful
2000
Screenplay

The Black House
1999
Director

Keiho
1999
Director

Sleepless Town
1998
Gambler

You Alone Can't See
1998
Screenplay

Tokyo Fair Weather
1997

Lost Paradise
1997
Director

Haru
1996
Director

I Don't Have a License!
1994
Writer

Future Memories: Last Christmas
1992
Director

A Desirable Marriage
1991
Director

Bakayarō! 4 You!
1991
Screenplay

Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
1990
Writer

24 Hour Playboy
1989
Director

Kitchen
1989
Director

Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
1989
Writer

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
Writer

Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Director