<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hello everyone, <br><div><br></div><div>It was reported today that director and screenwriter Morisaki Azuma has passed away, he was 92. </div><div><br></div><div>Born in 1927 he joined Shochiku in 1956, first working as an assistant director for Nomura Yoshitarō and Yamada Yōji. His first work as a screenwriter was for Yamada’s なつかしい風来坊 The Lovable Tramp in 1966 (not the Tora-san one), a nice comedy with undertones of seriousness and satire, with Baishō Chieko and Hana Hajime. In the same year he wrote or co-wrote the script for other 3 movies and in the second half of the 60s while continuing to write, always for Shōchiku, he had his debut behind the camera with 喜劇 女は度胸 Women Can’t be Beaten (1969) with Baishō Mitsuko (Chieko’s sister) and Atsumi Kiyoshi, from an original idea by Yamada himself. In 1969 he co-wrote with Yamada the first Tora-san 男はつらいよ and the following year Morisaki directed one of the only two films in the entire series not directed by Yamada, 男はつらいよ フーテンの寅. </div><div>He’s relatively known for Nuclear Gypsies 生きてるうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言 (1985), one of the best titles ever and a underseen masterpiece, for Location ロケーション (1984), the fictionalized adaptation of photographer Tsuda Ichirō’s book ザロケーション, about his experiences on pink eiga sets, and more recently for the touching and funny Pecoross' Mother and Her Days ペコロスの母に会いに行く (2013). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matteo Boscarol<br></span><div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">記憶ただ陽炎のゆらめき</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asian Docs</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Documentary in Japan and Asia</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com</font></a></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Film writer for Il Manifesto</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://ilmanifesto.it/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://ilmanifesto.it</font></a></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><br></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></div></div></div></body></html>