Yoshimitsu Morita
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 25, 1950, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
- Died
- December 20, 2011
- Movies
- 44
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2009 | SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda | |
| 2004 | Crying Out Love in the Center of the World | Movie Director |
| 1998 | Sleepless Town | Gambler |
| 1997 | Tokyo Fair Weather |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2012 | Train Brain Express | Director, Screenplay |
| 2010 | Abacus and Sword | Director |
| 2009 | It's On Me | Writer, Director |
| 2007 | Tsubaki Sanjuro | Director |
| 2007 | South Bound | Director, Writer |
| 2006 | The Mamiya Brothers | Director, Screenplay |
| 2004 | Umineko - Inseparable | Director |
| 2003 | Like Asura | Director |
| 2002 | Copycat Killer | Director, Screenplay |
| 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, Screenplay |
| 1994 | I Don't Have a License! | Writer |
| 1992 | Future Memories: Last Christmas | Director, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Bakayarō! 4 You! | Screenplay |
| 1991 | A Desirable Marriage | Screenplay, Director |
| 1990 | Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch | Writer |
| 1989 | Kitchen | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | 24 Hour Playboy | Screenplay, Director |
| 1989 | Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy | Writer |
| 1988 | Love and Action in Osaka | Screenplay, Director |
| 1988 | Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad | Writer |
| 1986 | The House of Wedlock | Screenplay |
| 1986 | For Business | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | And Then | Director |
| 1984 | Main Theme | Director, Screenplay |
| 1984 | Deaths in Tokimeki | Director, Screenplay |
| 1983 | Sannen-me no Uwaki | Screenplay |
| 1983 | The Family Game | Director, Screenplay |
| 1983 | Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep | Director, Screenplay |
| 1982 | Top Stripper | Director, Screenplay |
| 1982 | Come On Girls! | Screenplay, Director |
| 1981 | Something Like It | Writer, Director |
| 1978 | Live in Chigasaki | Director |
| 1976 | The Steam Express | Director |
| 1972 | Industrial Area | Director |
| 1971 | The Weather Report | Director |
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