Yoshimitsu Morita

Yoshimitsu Morita was a Japanese film director Selftaught 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 magazine poll This black comedy dealt with thenrecent changes in the structure of Japanese home life It also earned Morita the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award He also won the award for best director at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō Keiho 2003 and the award for best screenplay at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for Haru 1996