Yoshimitsu Morita (森田 芳光, Morita Yoshimitsu, 25 January 1950 – 20 December 2011) was a *anese film director who was born in Tokyo.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Death and legacy
• 3 Filmography
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

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 *anese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll. This black comedy dealt with then-recent changes in the structure of *anese home life. It also earned Morita the Directors Guild of *an New Directors Award.

The director has been nominated for eight *anese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for Ashura no Gotoku (Like Asura, 2003). 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). Sanjuro (2007) is a remake of the Kurosawa film

Death and legacy

Yoshimitsu Morita died from acute liver failure in Tokyo in December 2011. His last film Bokutachi kyūkō: A ressha de ikō (Take the "A" Train, 2011), a romantic comedy about two male train enthusiasts, was released in *an in March 2012.

Filmography

• No Yōna Mono (1981) (Something Like It)
• Come On Girls! (Shibugakitai Boys & Girls, 1982)
• Zūmu Appu: Maruhon Uwasa no Sutorippa (also known as Uwasa no Stripper, 1982)
• Futoku Ai*e *aku Ai*e (Pink Cut, 1983)
• Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game, 1983)
• Tokimeki ni Shisu (1984)
• Mein tēma (Main Theme, 1984)
• Sorekara (And Then, 1985)
• Sorobanzuku (1986)
• Kanashi Iro Yanen (1988)
• Ai to Heisei no Iro - Otoko (1989)
• Kitchen (1989)
• Oishii Kekkon (Happy Wedding) (1991)
• Mirai no Omoide (Future Memories: Last Christmas, 1992)
• Haru (1996)
• *surakuen (A Lost Paradise, 1997)
• 39 Keihō dai Sanjūkyū jō (Keiho, 1999)
• Kuroi Ie (The Black House, 1999)
• Mohou-han (Copycat Killer, (2002)
• Ashura no Gotoku (Like Asura, 2003)
• Umineko (The Seagull, 2004)
• Mamiya kyodai (The Mamiya Brothers, 2006)
• Sanjuro (2007)
• Southbound (2007)
• Bushi no kakeibo (Abacus and Sword, 2010)
• Watashi dasu wa (It's on Me, 2009)
• Bokutachi kyūkō: A ressha de ikō (Take the "A" Train, 2012)

References

External links

• Yoshimitsu Morita at IMDb
• "森田芳光 (Morita Yoshimitsu)". *anese Movie Database (in *anese). Retrieved 12 July 2007.
• Davis, Bob "Morita Yoshimitsu"Senses of Cinema, February 2006.