Kazuo Mori — Director (62)
Messengers to Satsuma (1982) [Movie] TMDB
薩摩飛脚
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Mikijiro Hira / Kiwako Taichi
other title: 薩摩飛脚
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...
A Color Print of Edo (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
錦絵江戸姿 旗本と街奴
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Junzaburō Ban
other title: 錦絵江戸姿 旗本と街奴 / Nishikie Edosugata Hatamoto to Machiyakko
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes and tells the story of a loyal and handsome Edo period servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves. The star of this film, Utaemon Ichikawa, gained enormous popularity for his portrayal of a cheerful and chivalrous man.
The Saga of Tanegashima (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
鉄砲伝来記
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Rick Jason / Ayako Wakao
other title: 鉄砲伝来記
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.