Directing

Yasutaka Mori

Born July 26, 1968 · Higashioosaka, Osaka, Japan (age 58)

No biography available.

Known For

Missing Child Videotape

Missing Child Videotape · 2025

Missing Child Videotape

MovieMysteryHorror

Keita discovers a missing boy in the woods and soon receives a mysterious videotape from his estranged mother.

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday · 1991

MovieAnimationDrama

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Ox-Head Village

Ox-Head Village · 2022

Ox-Head Village

MovieHorrorDrama

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…

Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger · 2003

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.

Loft

MovieHorrorMystery

A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.

Suicide Forest Village

Suicide Forest Village · 2021

Suicide Forest Village

MovieHorrorMystery

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come · 1989

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come

Kagawa gropes Marie on the train but she stops him. In order to get revenge on her, Kagawa followed her and tracked her down to her apartment. A few days later, he meets Yurika. With her help, Kagawa began his revenge on Marie. Marie is a mysterious woman who has relationships with multiple men, including company president Harada, elite businessman Ohmae, and part-time worker Osamu.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Kiki's Delivery Service · 2014

Kiki's Delivery Service

MovieFantasyAdventure

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.

Filmography

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Missing Child Videotape

Missing Child Videotape · 2025

Missing Child Videotape

MovieMysteryHorror

Keita discovers a missing boy in the woods and soon receives a mysterious videotape from his estranged mother.

Assistant Director

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday · 1991

MovieAnimationDrama

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Editor

Ox-Head Village

Ox-Head Village · 2022

Ox-Head Village

MovieHorrorDrama

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…

Assistant Director

Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger · 2003

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.

Assistant Director

Loft

MovieHorrorMystery

A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.

Assistant Director

Suicide Forest Village

Suicide Forest Village · 2021

Suicide Forest Village

MovieHorrorMystery

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.

Assistant Director

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come · 1989

Groper Train Hurry Up And Come

Kagawa gropes Marie on the train but she stops him. In order to get revenge on her, Kagawa followed her and tracked her down to her apartment. A few days later, he meets Yurika. With her help, Kagawa began his revenge on Marie. Marie is a mysterious woman who has relationships with multiple men, including company president Harada, elite businessman Ohmae, and part-time worker Osamu.

Assistant Director

Kiki's Delivery Service

Kiki's Delivery Service · 2014

Kiki's Delivery Service

MovieFantasyAdventure

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.

Assistant Director

Yomigaeri

Yomigaeri · 2003

MovieFantasyDrama

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

Assistant Director

Farewell Song

Farewell Song · 2019

MovieMusicRomance

Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to disband the duo. Haru-Reo go on one last tour together. Their roadie Shima goes with the girls on the tour.

Assistant Director

Sana

MovieHorrorMystery

Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it themselves and become involved in a mysterious incident. What is the mystery behind this melody ?

Assistant Director

Sana: Let Me Hear

Sana: Let Me Hear · 2024

Sana: Let Me Hear

During the summer vacation period, temporary teacher Honoka Kimijima is in charge of a supplementary class. One day, a female student suddenly jumps off from the school rooftop and dies in front of Honoka Kimijima.

Assistant Director

Séance

Séance · 2004

MovieDramaHorror

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. Instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to 'find' the girl. Just when it all seems to go right, everything goes horribly wrong.

Assistant Director

Ushijima the Loan Shark

Ushijima the Loan Shark · 2012

Ushijima the Loan Shark

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying off her mother's debt, Mirai begins working at a dating cafe. Meanwhile, Jun (Kento Hayashi) is the ambitious and greedy company president for an event group. To borrow money, Jun visits Kaukau Finance owned by Kaoru Ushijima.

Assistant Director

Best Wishes to All

Best Wishes to All · 2024

Best Wishes to All

MovieHorrorThriller

A young woman's visit to her grandparents' home leads to the discovery of what's brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

Assistant Director

Immersion

Immersion · 2023

MovieHorrorMystery

Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.

Assistant Director

The Village of Eight Gravestones

The Village of Eight Gravestones · 2026

The Village of Eight Gravestones

MovieMysteryHorror

Follows a young man with a dark family past who visits the village of his late mother and encounters a private eye hired by hostile villagers as a killing spree unfolds.

First Assistant Director

Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2

Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2 · 2014

Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2

Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.

Assistant Director

Peaceful Death

Peaceful Death · 2020

Assistant Director

Out of This World

Out of This World · 2004

Out of This World

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.

Assistant Director

Seifuku bôkôma: Hôkago-gari

Seifuku bôkôma: Hôkago-gari · 1991

Seifuku bôkôma: Hôkago-gari

Winter. In a quiet residential area, a high school girl is on her way home. A car slowly approaches from behind...

Assistant Director

River of First Love

River of First Love · 2004

River of First Love

MovieFamilyRomance

8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.

Assistant Director

Rabbit Horror

Rabbit Horror · 2011

To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.

Assistant Director

Married Woman's Desire to Have an Affair

Married Woman's Desire to Have an Affair · 1988

Married Woman's Desire to Have an Affair

Married women are, in other words, a different form of life from us. Because they have the tendency to repeat reproductive acts day and night, if there is a gap between acts or they are unsatisfied, they substitute it with simulated acts or acts with other men.

Assistant Director

Hibana: Spark

Hibana: Spark · 2016

Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian, when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya, and asks if he can become his apprentice. Kamiya is a genius type of comedian, who is full of human kindness. He accepts Tokunaga’s proposition on the condition that he will write his biography.

Director

The Many Faces of Ito

The Many Faces of Ito · 2017

The Many Faces of Ito

SeriesDramaMystery

A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.

Director

Hunting on a Lonely Hill

Hunting on a Lonely Hill · 2022

Hunting on a Lonely Hill

SeriesDramaMystery

Describes how two women who are hurt by the selfish desires of the men around them and try to fight against them so as to regain hope in their lives.

Screenplay