Tadashi Morishita

Birth : 1964-01-01, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

History

Tadashi Morishita (森下 直, Morishita Tadashi, born in 1964) is a Japanese screenwriter born in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from Scenario Center Osaka School. He mainly writes screenplays for films and TV dramas, and occasionally for animes. In 1995, he won the 21st Kido Prize Scenario Contest for his script Abduction. In 1997, this script was made into a movie by Toho, and he won the 21st Japan Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

Movies

America ni Makenakatta Otoko - Bakayaro Souri Yoshida Shigeru
Screenplay
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Writer
Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.
Tsuyoki ari
Screenplay
Based on the novel "Tsuyoki Ari" by Seicho Matsumoto In her past, Isako Sawada ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her and an executive of a corporation. They eventually married. Nobuhiro owns a large mansion and his money is managed by housekeeper Saki Tsubaki. Isako Sawada doesn't like that arrangement, but she hides her contempt because she has a plan. Her plan is to become a widow in 3 years and inherit one billion yen from her husband. Isako Sawada schemes to have Nobuhiro die in an apparent natural manner and she is having a relationship with another man.
Kasha
Writer
Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shunsuke takes a leave from work due to an injury. One day, his relative comes to see him and asks him if he can find his missing fiance Akiko Sekine. Shunsuke takes on the job and enlists the help of Detective Sadao Ikari. The detectives soon uncover the shocking truth behind the missing woman.
Thirteen Steps
Screenplay
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Abduction
Screenplay
The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.