Yoshimitsu MoritaFilmography

Ashura No Gotoku

Crew: Director

Actors: Shinobu Otake, Hitomi Kuroki, Eri Fukatsu, Kyoko Fukada, Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis: Yoshimitsu Morita's comedy drama Ashura No Gotoku (Like Ashura) tells the story of what happens to four sisters when they discover a secret their father has been keeping. The film opens with third sister Takiko (Eri Fukatsu) revealing to the others that dad has been having an affair that has Read More

Moho han

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Masahiro Nakai, Takashi Fujii, Kanji Tsuda, Yoshino Kimura, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Synopsis: Based on Miyuki Miyabe's popular novel, Yoshimitsu Morita's lurid thriller follows an intelligent serial killer as he strings police and the media along while committing a series of brutal murders. Torturing his victims before killing them in numerous horrific ways, the fearless killer (played by Read More

Colourful

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A man gets a second chance at life, only to find his new circumstances far stranger than he imagined in this dark comedy from Japan. Makoto (Koki Tanaka) is a 14-year-old boy who died in an accident, leaving his parents terribly distraught. Their grief turns to mingled happiness and confusion when Read More

Colorful

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Shun Nakahara directs this supernatural fantasy about a second chance at life penned by veteran director Yoshimitsu Morita. The film centers on Makoto (Koki Tanaka) a would-be teenaged suicide who is brought back to life when the spirit of another dead lad enters his body. This new lease on life Read More

Kuroi Ie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of black comedy and terror, Wakatsuki (Masaki Uchino) is an insurance investigator who is looking into a claim. His investigation leads him to a man and woman whose son recently committed suicide. The father (Masahiko Nishimura) is an emotionally unstable man who has Read More

Keiho Dai Sanjyukyu Jyo

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyoka Suzuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ittoku Kishibe, Hideko Yoshida, Mirai Yamamoto

Synopsis: Yoshimitsu Morita's long filmography includes everything from art-house hits to romantic drama by way of porno comedies, but Keiho is his first psychological mystery-thriller. Keiho diverts from recent Japanese thrillers as its focus is not so much a journey into existential darkness, but Read More

Keiho Daisanjukyujo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Yoshimitsu Morita follows up on his wildly popular romantic crowd-pleaser Shitsurakuen with decidedly darker fare in this harrowing, labythine psychological drama. The film focuses on stage actor Masaki Shibata (Shinichi Tsutsumi), who allegedly killed a man and his five-month Read More

Lost Paradise

Crew: Director

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Hitomi Kuroki, Akira Terao, Toshio Shiba, Tomoko Hoshino

Synopsis: Veteran director Yoshimitsu Morita spins this romantic melodrama that was originally written by Junichi Watanabe and serialized in the Nihon Keizai Shinbum, Japan's answer to the Wall Street Journal. Kuki (Koji Yakusho) is a former magazine editor wunderkind whose star has dimmed as he slides into Read More

Haru

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Yoshimitsu Morita, who made his name with the savage social satire Family Game, goes for decidedly sweeter fare with this You Got Mail style romantic comedy. Haru Masaaki Uchino is a salesman based in Tokyo who consoles himself with an on-line chat group after blowing out his knee playing American Read More

Mirai no Omoide: Last Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Yoshimitsu Morita, who made his name with the wickedly funny Family Game, spins this gauzy supernatural comedy about two women who get a second chance. Yuko (Misa Shimizu) is a mousy manga artist eking out a living. Once, while noodling about on her drawing pad, she stumbles upon an idea that will Read More

Bakayaroo! (Watakushi, Okotteimasu)

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Haruko Sagara, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Narumi Yashuda, Hiroshi Isobe, Maeko Ogawa

Synopsis: Four closely related stories are told in this unusual film, all of them written by Yoshimitsu Morita and filmed by four separate directors. In all of them, the main characters are desperately seeking something which circumstances lead them to reassess either before or after they get it. In the Read More

Sorekara

Crew: Director

Actors: Miwako Fujitani, Kaoru Kobayashi, Chishu Ryu, Mitsuko Kusabue

Synopsis: This is a probing tale set in turn of the century Japan, involving three people trapped in a complex relationship of love and friendship. Daisuke (Yusaku Matsuda) is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music Read More

Sorobanzuku

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Takaaki Ishibashi, Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis: In this spoof about "industrial espionage" between the rival No and Ra advertising agencies, many quirky scenes highlight the Japanese obsession with (and curious modesty towards) sex. In one scene, a group of men in a shower have their genitals discreetly covered by round black circles. In Read More

Uhoho Tankentai

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yukiyo Toake, Kunie Tanaka, Mariko Fuji

Synopsis: The demands of his scientific work require Kazuya to live most of the time at his laboratory, visiting home only occasionally. In this domestic drama, the scientist has returned for one of his rare visits home. At first, his two sons are simply delighted to see him. Before long, they notice that Read More

Tokimeki Ni Shisu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kanako Higuchi, Naoki Sugiura

Synopsis: A dark foreboding settles over this taut drama about Kudo (Kenji Sawada), a hitman going through ordinary activities with all the ritual of a choreographed, deadly game. Kudo is settled into a villa in a remote country village, and his only companions are a quarrelsome attendant and a geisha-like Read More

Mein Teema

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hironobu Nomura

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill romantic drama, Shibuki Ogasawara (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a young kindergarten teacher who develops a passion for the divorced father of one of her students, only to discover that a travelling magician has a stronger attraction for her, an appeal that is definitely not Read More

The Family Game

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa, Junichi Tsujita

Synopsis: Co-produced by the Art Theatre of Japan, The Family Game explores the coming-of-age (so to speak) of a traditional Japanese family. Ichirota Miyagawa is the youngest member of a clan that dwells in a house so small you virtually have to go outside to change your mind. Miyagawa gets his first taste Read More

Boizu & Gaaruzu

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A trio from the same high school in Tokyo decide to cut classes for awhile and escape to a seaside resort area in Izu, on the west coast of Japan. Once there, they encounter three young women and through various musical numbers (the trio is actually a Japanese singing group called the Read More

No Yonamono

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masahiro Kobayashi

Synopsis: In this comedy that stretches beyond the cultural barriers of Japanese language and humor, the first component in the series of misadventures to strike a note is the play on everyone's names: Shinbei, Shinsai, Shinniku, and other "Shins" dominate the cast of characters, except for Elizabeth - and Read More