Education
Nihon University.
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Yoshimitsu Morita
Edit Profile森田 芳光
Career
Self-taught, first making shorts on 8 mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature film debut with Number Yōna Mono (Something Like lieutenant, 1981). This black comedy dealt with then-recent changes in the structure of Japanese home life. lieutenant 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 foreign 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.
Achievements
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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. 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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Born
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Died
December 20, 2011 (aged 61) -
Nationality
Japan