Direction: Yoshimitsu Morita

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Family Game

1983 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jūzō Itami · Saori Yuki · Ichirôta Miyakawa

Plot A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success;...

6.9

45 votes

6.9

45 votes

Copycat Killer

2002 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

4.6

27 votes

4.6

27 votes

Mirai no omoide: Last Christmas

1992 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

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Abacus and Sword

2010 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Masato Sakai · Yukie Nakama · Kimimaro Ayanokôji · Yûki Itô

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

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Like Asura

2003 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Shinobu Otake · Hitomi Kuroki · Eri Fukatsu · Kyôko Fukada

Plot 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...

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Train Brain Express

2011 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

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Sanjûrô

2007 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Yûji Oda · Makoto Fujita · Shin'yû Fujiwara · Tsuyoshi Hayashi

Plot A scruffy master-less samurai decides to help a group of young warriors whose leader was taken captive by a gang of ambitious officers.

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Umineko

2004 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

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The Mamiya Brothers

2006 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

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Something Like It

1981 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

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The Black House

1999 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Seiyô Uchino · Shinobu Otake · Masahiko Nishimura · Misato Tanaka

Plot A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her...

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It’s On Me

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

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And Then

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

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Love and Action in Osaka

1988 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Tôru Nakamura · Masahiro Takashima · Miwako Fujitani · Yuriko Ishida

Plot Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on by his...

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Deaths in Tokimeki

1984 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kenji Sawada · Kanako Higuchi · Naoki Sugiura

Plot An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction...

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Main Theme

1984 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

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For Business

1986 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Takaaki Ishibashi · Noritake Kinashi · Narumi Yasuda · Kaoru Kobayashi

Plot A buddy comedy centered on a couple of 'salarymen' working for an Advertising Agency, who battle the unscrupulous practices of a rival agency. In classic Yoshimitsu Morita style, it's done...

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Sausu baundo

2007 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

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39 keihô dai sanjûkyû jô (Keiho)

1999 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kyoka Suzuki · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Ittoku Kishibe · Naoki Sugiura

Plot Stage actor Masaki Shibata Shinichi Tsutsumi has murdered a man and his wife. He confesses his crime; he says his motive was that the woman, who is five months pregnant,...

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24 Hour Playboy

1989 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

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