Yoshimitsu Morita

Yoshimitsu Morita

January 25, 1950 · 76 years old

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…

Known For

10 titles
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The Family Game

The Family Game

1983 · 1h 47m · Movie

Japanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.

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Sleepless Town

Sleepless Town

1998 · 2h 2m · Movie

Kabukicho is a forgotten world. A place where people of different tongues and races meet, where they fight against each other to gain money, power and territory. The struggle which never ends. Based on a dangerous love story which...

6.8
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Lost Paradise

Lost Paradise

1997 · 1h 59m · Movie

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.

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The Black House

The Black House

1999 · 1h 58m · Movie

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened.

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Ashura no gotoku

Ashura no gotoku

2003 · 2h 15m · Movie

The ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.

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Abacus and Sword

Abacus and Sword

2010 · 2h 9m · Movie

A low-income samurai struggling to survive when the philosophy and their reason of existence is being questioned and phased out.

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Love Hard, Love Deep

Love Hard, Love Deep

1983 · 1h 8m · Movie

This is an odd love story of a girl named Mayumi and her male friend Mai, who decide to open up a barber shop and beauty parlor, where they serve their customers in the nude. The charming novelty sets them up to make a killing in ...

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Main Theme

Main Theme

1984 · 1h 41m · Movie

A former kindergarten teacher has quit her job. One day she meets a magician at the beach and undertake to travel together in his car. She wants to travel to Osaka to meet a man - whose son she used to take care of - after passing...

5.9
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Top Stripper

Top Stripper

1982 · 1h 7m · Movie

A frank coming-of-age story, in which young Yoichi falls for Gloria at the local strip joint. Yoichi's innocent nature has him attending her shows every day, filling his mind with her beauty. The standard bittersweet disappointmen...

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Kanashii iro yanen

Kanashii iro yanen

1988 · 1h 42m · Movie

A man works at a bank. He is the son of a yakuza thug. One day his father's gang fights another group of thugs and the son steps in and helps. The son's high school class-mate is also the son of a yakuza member. This man does not ...

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