Spouse Kazuko Misawa (m. ?–2011) Role Film director | Name Yoshimitsu Morita Years active 1981–2011 | |
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Awards Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Japan Academy Prize for Special Award from the Chairman Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year Movies The Family Game, Something Like It, Lost Paradise, The Mamiya Brothers, Take the 'A' Train Similar People Yusaku Matsuda, Kenichi Matsuyama, Katsunobu Ito, Hitomi Kuroki, Koji Yakusho | ||
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Yoshimitsu Morita (森田 芳光, Morita Yoshimitsu, 25 January 1950 – 20 December 2011) was a Japanese film director who was born in Tokyo.
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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.
The director has been nominated for eight Japanese 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
Yoshimitsu Morita died from acute liver failure in Tokyo in December 2011. His last film Bokukyû: A ressha de iko (Take the "A" Train, 2011), a romantic comedy about two male train enthusiasts, was released in Japan in March 2012.