Shirō Moritani

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 the 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 : 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 (The Revolt) 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