The best Yoshiyuki Morishita’s comedy movies

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

04/12/1962 (61 años)
Today we present the best Yoshiyuki Morishita’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Yoshiyuki Morishita’s movies.
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Survive Style 5+

Survive Style 5+
7.5/10
A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a British hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance.

Tokyo!

Tokyo!
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFantasy
  • Release: 16/08/2008
  • Character: laughing passsenger in Hiroko & Akira's car
An anthology of three short films by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, each of whom offers an imaginative and trans-/super-natural glimpse into the Tokyo Megalopolis.

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise
7.3/10
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks. Machisu, the only son of a rich collector, has a childs love for painting. Praise from a famous artist friend of his father inspires the young boy to dream of becoming a painter himself. s a young man, poor loner Machisu manages to attend art school with money earned from working. He is introduced to an unconventional world of bold creativity but he also gets his first bitter taste of harsh criticism from a dealer. Encouragement comes in the form of attractive clerk Sachiko who is convinced that she alone understands him. Marriage is soon followed by a daughter, as love and hope drive Machisu to commit even more deeply to his art ...

Swing Girls

Swing Girls
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/09/2004
  • Character: bento delivery guy
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.

Thermae Romae

Thermae Romae
6.4/10
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time.

The Happiness of the Katakuris

The Happiness of the Katakuris
6.9/10
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
6.7/10
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.

Tokyo Zombie

Tokyo Zombie
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 10/12/2005
  • Character: Vampire Zombie
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.

Smuggler

Smuggler
6.3/10
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.

Party 7

Party 7
6.2/10
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?

Happy Flight

Happy Flight
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/11/2008
  • Character: Magazine Reporter
Co-pilot Kazuhiro is up for promotion, but before he can get his captain's wings he has to get through a flight evaluation, and things aren't exactly going his way. He just crashed and burned on a simulated flight test, and his friendly examiner has been replaced with the tough-as-nails Harada. On the same plane is cabin attendant Etsuko who's flying her first international flight and trying hard to not mess up. Elsewhere in the Happy Flight universe, staff are bustling back and forth with various problems and gripes - all to make this ordinary yet fateful flight a safe and happy one.

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/07/2005
  • Character: Proprietor of sweets shop
Suzume Katagura is an bored housewife, she spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husbands pet turtle. One day she sees an wanted ad for spies, hoping for some excitement she decides to give them a call.

By Players-What if 100 famous side roles make a movie-

By Players-What if 100 famous side roles make a movie-
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/04/2021
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actor who get involved in misadventures while on set.

hana & alice

hana & alice
7.2/10
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Funky Forest: The First Contact

Funky Forest: The First Contact
6.6/10
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Mori, The Artist's Habitat

Mori, The Artist's Habitat
6.8/10
In 1974, Morikazu is 94-years-old and his wife Hideko is 76-years-old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of trees, plants and insects. Morikazu paints pictures of the creatures in his garden and also observes them. This has been his daily routine for more than 30 years. Morikazu and Hideko entertain visitors every day including a photographer and the couple living next door.

Go

Go
7.4/10
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Happy Together: All About My Dog

Happy Together: All About My Dog
6.7/10
A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.

Wild Zero

Wild Zero
6.3/10
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.

Doing Time

Doing Time
7.1/10
When he finds himself in an Hokkaido prison for a minor firearms possession offence, it doesn't take long for Hanawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to surrender utterly to the routine, arbitrary rules and grinding sameness of life in the prison system. Indeed, he comes to find his stint in solitary confinement, cut off from fellow-inmates and with a mechanical task of creating hundreds of folded paper bags each day, a curiously satisfying experience.

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