Director

Yoshimitsu Morita

Directing

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Directed movies: 22Directed series: 0All crew credits: 41

TMDB ID: 225738

IMDb ID: nm0605741

Known for: Directing

Born: January 25, 1950

Died: December 20, 2011

Age: 61

Place of birth: Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1971 - 2016

Years active: 46

Average TMDB rating: 6.96

Wikidata: Q1138125

Also known as

Ёсимицу Морита • Morita Yoshimitsu

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Director (22)Screenplay (9)Writer (7)Adaptation (1)Editor (1)Original Film Writer (1)

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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).