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
[edit]As director
[edit]- 1966 : Zero Fighters: Great Air Battle
- 1967 : Zoku izuko e; based on the 1939 novel Izuko e by Yōjirō Ishizaka
- 1967 : Sodachi zakari
- 1968 : Judge and Jeopardy
- 1968 : Aniki no koibito
- 1969 : Futari no koibito
- 1969 : Dankon (The Bullet Wounded; Bullet Wound)
- 1970 : Akazukinchan kiotsukete (Take Care, Red Riding Hood); based on the novel by Kaoru Shōji
- 1971 : Saredowareraga hibi yori wakare no shi
- 1971 : Shiosai; film version of the Yukio Mishima novel The Sound of Waves
- 1972 : Hajimete no tabi
- 1973 : Submersion of Japan
- 1977 : Mount Hakkoda
- 1978 : Seishoku no ishibumi
- 1980 : Dōran
- 1981 : Hyōryū; based on the novel by Akira Yoshimura
- 1982 : Kaikyō
- 1983 : Shōsetsu Yoshida gakkō; based on the non-fiction political novel by Isamu Togawa
References
[edit]- ^ "Moritani Shirō". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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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