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Intro
Film director
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
28 September 1931(Tokyo)
Death:
2 December 1984
The details
Biography
Introduction
Shirō Moritani (森谷 司郎, Moritani Shirō, September 28, 1931 – December 2, 1984) was a film director and screenwriter from Japan. 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 : Zero Fighters: Great Air Battle
- 1967 : Zoku izuko e; based on the 1939 novel Izuko e by Yōjirō Ishizaka
- 1967 : Sodachi zakari
- 1968 : Kubi
- 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