Shirō Moritani
Shirō Moritani (森谷 司郎, Moritani Shirō, September 28, 1931 – December 2, 1984) was a film director and screenwriter from Japan.[1] Born in Tokyo, he debuted as an assistant director in Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo. His film Mount Hakkoda won Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film in 1978.
Filmography[]
As director[]
- 1966 :
- 1967 : ; based on the 1939 novel Izuko e by Yōjirō Ishizaka
- 1967 :
- 1968 : Judge and Jeopardy
- 1968 :
- 1969 :
- 1969 : (The Bullet Wounded; Bullet Wound)
- 1970 : (Take Care, Red Riding Hood); based on the novel by
- 1971 :
- 1971 : ; film version of the Yukio Mishima novel The Sound of Waves
- 1972 :
- 1973 : Submersion of Japan
- 1977 : Mount Hakkoda
- 1978 :
- 1980 :
- 1981 : ; based on the novel by Akira Yoshimura
- 1982 :
- 1983 : ; based on the non-fiction political novel by Isamu Togawa
References[]
- ^ "Moritani Shirō". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
Bibliography[]
- 田中文雄 (1993). 神を放った男 映画製作者田中友幸とその時代. キネマ旬報社. ISBN 4-87376-070-4.
- 日本映画人名事典・監督篇. キネマ旬報社. 1997. ISBN 4873762081.
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Categories:
- 1931 births
- 1984 deaths
- Japanese film directors
- Japanese screenwriters
- 20th-century screenwriters