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Yoshimitsu Morita (森田 芳光, Morita Yoshimitsu, 25 January 1950 – 20 December 2011) was a Japanese film director. 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). [2]
Yoshimitsu Morita was born on 25 January 1950 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for The Family Game (1983), Sorekara (1985) and Haru (1996). He was married to Misao Morita. He died on 20 December 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.
Dec 24, 2011 · TOKYO (AP) — Yoshimitsu Morita, a director whose films depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of everyday life in conformist Japan, died here on Tuesday. He was 61. The cause was acute liver...
Mar 20, 2023 · Reexamining the appeal of Yoshimitsu Morita: A conversation with Kazuko Misawa and the programmers of the NY retrospective | JFF+. Director Yoshimitsu Morita released 27 films from 1981, blazing through the Japanese film industry like a shooting star. We spoke with his personal and...
Nov 7, 2022 · Across a 30-plus-year career, Yoshimitsu Morita (1950–2011) amassed one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic and prolific bodies of work in modern Japanese cinema. Film at Lincoln Center announces Yoshimitsu Morita, a retrospective of the Japanese filmmaker’s career, running from December 2-11.
Dec 22, 2011 · Japanese helmer Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of everyday life in conformist Japan, died of acute liver failure in Tokyo on Wednesday. He was 61.
Dec 20, 2011 · 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 ...
