1999Nominee
Best Director
Keiho
Yoshimitsu Morita
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
January 25, 1950
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).
Photo
Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2004Nominee
Best Director
Umineko - Inseparable
1997Nominee
Best Director
Lost Paradise
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Director
The Black House
2004Highlight
Best Director
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Video
Keiho
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Sleepless Town