His most acclaimed films include The Family Game (1983), Sorekara (1985), Haru (1996), and Lost Paradise (1997).
[2] In 1983 he won acclaim for his movie Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game), which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll.
According to film critic Saburō Kawamoto in 1985, Morita's early features presented a new cinema and sensibility that represented “the new human species” of postmodern Japan.
Morita's aesthetic was minimalistic, transparent, and featured empty landscapes with light and abstract characters.
This was in direct contrast to the youth films of 1960s and 1970s in which the directors would aim for a fullness of sensuality, emotion, and physicality.