Awards & Winners

Yoshimitsu Morita

Date of Birth 25-January-1950
Place of Birth Chigasaki
(Japan, Kantō region, Kanagawa Prefecture)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Morita Yoshimitsu
Profession Film director, Screenwriter
Yoshimitsu Morita was a Japanese film director who was born in Tokyo. Self-taught, first making shorts on 8 mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature film debut with No Yōna Mono. In 1983 he won acclaim for his movie Kazoku Gēmu, 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 Moritahim the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. The director has been nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for Ashura no Gotoku. He also won the award for best director at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō and the award for best screenplay at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for Haru. Sanjuro is a remake of the Kurosawa film Yoshimitsu Morita died from acute liver failure in Tokyo. His last film Bokukyû: A ressha de iko, a romantic comedy about two male train enthusiasts, is scheduled for a Spring 2012 general release in Japan.

Awards by Yoshimitsu Morita

Check all the awards nominated and won by Yoshimitsu Morita.

2004


Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year
Honored for : Like Asura

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Like Asura
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Like Asura

1998


Nominations 1998 »

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Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Lost Paradise

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year Haru

1989


Nominations 1989 »

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Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1987


Nominations 1987 »

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Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year Uhohho tankentai","The Mercenaries

1986


Nominations 1986 »

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Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year And Then
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year And Then

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year The Family Game
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year The Family Game
Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year The Family Game