As Director, As Writer
Train Brain Express
2012
6.0
Yoshimitsu Morita
Acting
Birth Date
January 25, 1950
Place of Birth
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Date of Death
December 20, 2011
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).
Complete Filmography
As Director
Abacus and Sword
2010
6.0
As Director
Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007
6.4
As Director, As Writer
The Mamiya Brothers
2006
5.4
As Director
Umineko - Inseparable
2004
1.0
As Director
Like Asura
2003
6.9
As Director, As Writer
Copycat Killer
2002
7.2
As Writer
Colorful
2000
5.5
As Director
The Black House
1999
6.2
As Director
Keiho
1999
6.0
As Actor
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
6.8
As Director
Lost Paradise
1997
5.9
As Director, As Writer
Haru
1996
7.8
As Writer
I Don't Have a License!
1994
4.0
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Future Memories: Last Christmas
1992
6.0
As Director, As Writer
A Desirable Marriage
1991
6.0
As Director, As Writer
Kitchen
1989
6.0
As Director, As Writer
24 Hour Playboy
1989
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
5.7
As Writer
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
7.0