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Like Asura

Nominees and Awards

  • ★ 2004 Blue Ribbon Awards Best Director
  • ★ 2004 Awards of the Japanese Academy Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay
  • ★ 2004 Hochi Film Awards Best Supporting Actress

Synopsis

A remake of the classic drama by Kuniko Mukoda, a leading screenwriter of the Showa period, and who Morita was an avowed fan of himself. Set in the late Showa period, the story follows four sisters who discover that their aging father hasd a mistress and a child, and how they live stoutly despite their various feelings, worries, and conflicts. The four sisters are played by Shinobu Otake, Hitomi Kuroki, Eri Fukatsu, and Kyoko Fukada, all of whom are among the best actresses of th eir generation. The film carefully captures the funny, humorous side of women with complicated hearts and minds., While appearing on the surface to be heartwarming. While on the surface the film is heartwarming, it astutelycarefully depictscaptures the horror of women’s unconventional lives “women are scary” with Morita's unique humor., and as a result, attracted a large audience of middle-aged women. The film won many awards for its director, crew, and actresses.

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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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