An unusually weaker stab by Morita in this mystery within a mystery, as his uneven and unnecessarily convoluted film about a murderer with a split personality explores the intersection between law and psychology.                                                     

Two strangers find a special bond through an online cinema forum’s email service in Morita’s progressively emotional take on what it means to connect with another human being in the wake of a lonelier, more technological world. 

One of Morita’s most popular films sees Koji Yakusho and Hitomi Kuroki give exceptional performances as their characters turn extramarital affairs into a tempting fantasy and radical gesture.

A work of slow and restrained beauty as Morita’s Meiji era melodrama, about a man who is still in love with a woman who has married his close friend, compels with its effective performances and deliberate mise-en-scene.

A professional killer implicated deep within an organised crime syndicate waits to be activated in Morita’s impressive mood piece of a character study, methodically conceived and featuring a denouement as shocking as any in ‘80s Japanese cinema.

Morita’s creatively-shot and accomplished breakthrough film sees a tutor-outsider embrace and disrupt the status quo of a middle-class family with an underachieving child, with thought-provoking results.