
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…

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

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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...

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...