Kazuo Mori , also known by his street name Issei Mori , was a Japanese film director who primarily worked in popular genres like the jidaigeki. Mori directed over 100 films in his life.

Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates to period drama. Jidaigeki may refer to a story set in a historical period, though not necessarily dealing with a samurai character or depicting swordplay.