Haru
Nominees and Awards
- ★ 1997 Kinema Junpo Best Film of the Year Top 4
- ★ 1997 Awards of the Japanese Academy Newcomer of the Year
- ★ 1996 Hochi Film Awards Best Director
Synopsis
A love story about a man and a woman who meet through an online chat room and fall in love without ever knowing each other's faces. The experimental approach of actively incorporating the "e-mail" medium, which was a rarity at the time when most people didn’t yet know about PC, shines through as a large number of scenes in the film take place on a display screen. A highly acclaimed film that won various awards, including a nomination for Best Screenplay at the Japan Academy Prize. It continues to be popular today.
Team
Director
MORITA Yoshimitsu
MORITA Yoshimitsu was born in January 1950 in Chigasaki, Japan. Self-taught, first making shorts on 8mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature debut with Something Like It (1981). In 1983, he won acclaim for Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game), which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll and won him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. He has been nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for Like Asura. He died from acute liver failure in Tokyo in December 2011.
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