Directed credits
24
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Yoshimitsu Morita
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Directed movies: 24Directed 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: 6.93
Wikidata: Q1138125
Also known as
Morita Yoshimitsu
Frequent jobs
Director (23)Director of Photography (1)Screenplay (9)Writer (6)Adaptation (1)Original Film Writer (1)
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).
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Yoshimitsu Morita.
Director
Train Brain Express
2012 • Movie
Director
Abacus and Sword
2010 • Movie
Director
Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007 • Movie
Director
The Mamiya Brothers
2006 • Movie
Director
Umineko - Inseparable
2004 • Movie
Director
Like Asura
2003 • Movie
Director
Copycat Killer
2002 • Movie
Director
The Black House
1999 • Movie
Director
Keiho
1999 • Movie
Director
Lost Paradise
1997 • Movie
Director
Haru
1996 • Movie
Director
Future Memories: Last Christmas
1992 • Movie
Director
Kitchen
1989 • Movie
Director
For Business
1986 • Movie
Director
And Then
1985 • Movie
Director
Main Theme
1984 • Movie
Director
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984 • Movie
Director
The Family Game
1983 • Movie
Director
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
1983 • Movie
Director
Top Stripper
1982 • Movie
Director
Live in Chigasaki
1978 • Movie
Director of Photography
The Steam Express
1976 • Movie
Director
Industrial Area
1972 • Movie
Director
The Weather Report
1971 • Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Yoshimitsu Morita.
Director
Lost Paradise
1997 • Movie
Screenplay
The House of Wedlock
1986 • Movie
Screenplay
Colorful
2000 • Movie
Director
Umineko - Inseparable
2004 • Movie
as Gambler
Sleepless Town
1998 • Movie
as Movie Director
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004 • Movie
Adaptation
South Bound
2007 • Movie
Director
Haru
1996 • Movie
Director
And Then
1985 • Movie
Director
Copycat Killer
2002 • Movie
Director
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
1983 • Movie
Screenplay
24 Hour Playboy
1989 • Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Yoshimitsu Morita.
Original Film Writer
Something Like, Something Like It
2016 • Movie
Writer
It's On Me
2009 • Movie
Adaptation
South Bound
2007 • Movie
Screenplay
Colorful
2000 • Movie
Screenplay
You Alone Can't See
1998 • Movie
Writer
I Don't Have a License!
1994 • Movie
Screenplay
Bakayarō! 4 You!
1991 • Movie
Screenplay
A Desirable Marriage
1991 • Movie
Writer
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
1990 • Movie
Screenplay
24 Hour Playboy
1989 • Movie
Writer
Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
1989 • Movie
Screenplay
Love and Action in Osaka
1988 • Movie
Writer
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988 • Movie
Screenplay
The House of Wedlock
1986 • Movie
Screenplay
Sannen-me no Uwaki
1983 • Movie
Screenplay
Come On Girls!
1982 • Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Yoshimitsu Morita.
