Hideo KanzeFilmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • A Last Note

    Synopsis: Veteran Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo was 82 when he directed this meditation on life, death, and loss. Following the passing of her husband, elderly former actress Yoko Morimoto (Haruko Sugimura) travels to her summer home in the mountains of Central Japan. Upon her arrival, her servant Tokoyo Read More

    12/23/98

  • Rikyu

    Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Yoshiko Mita, Koshiro Matsumoto

    Synopsis: Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant historical drama about tea master Sen no Rikyu. A Buddhist priest who talks of the beauty of a single flower or the shape of a hand holding a teacup, Rikyu (played by Rentaro Mikuni) Read More

    1990

  • Chikuzan Hitori Tabi

    Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baisho

    Synopsis: After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a Read More

    1977

  • Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita

    Actors: Shima Iwashita

    1975

  • Summer Soldiers

    Actors: Barry Cotton, Lee Reisen, Keith Sykes

    Synopsis: This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan during the Vietnam war. Many of the men went on leave to Tokyo. Some did not want to return and ended up sheltered by Japanese "host families" who would conceal them for a night. Read More

    1972

  • Kuroneko

    Actors: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Sato, Hideo Kanze

    Synopsis: Set in feudal Japan, this atmospheric and violent ghost story (whose title literally translates as The Black Cat in the Bush) begins with the brutal murder of two women by a band of mercenary samurai, whose leader is subsequently tracked down, seduced, and murdered by a young woman possessed by Read More

    2/24/68

  • Lost Sex

    Actors: Hideo Kanze, Nobuko Otowa, Kaori Shima

    Synopsis: This Japanese drama, the first to deal with some of the after-effects of the Hiroshima bomb, chronicles the quest of a respected drama teacher to find sexual satisfaction after he learns that the bomb blast has rendered him impotent. Nothing seems to work, so the teacher travels to his mountain Read More

    1968

  • Tsuyomushi Onna To Yowamushi Otoko

    Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Taiji Tonoyama

    Synopsis: A mother leaves her husband and small village and travels to Kyoto with her teenage daughter. Their quaint country ways are soon discarded as they don negligees and bilk bar customers with sad stories of need. Their rural dialect is quickly replaced by the seductive siren calls of big-city painted Read More

    1968

  • Ninja Bugei-Cho

    Actors: Kei Sato, Hideo Kanze, Fumio Watanabe

    Synopsis: Director Nagisa Oshima teams with comic-strip artist Shirato Sampei in this feature. Still pictures are used as some of Japan's more recognizable thespians provide the voices to tell the story. The ninja warriors use their powers to become invisible, walk on water, and climb castle walls. ~ Dan Read More

    1967

  • Violence at Noon

    Actors: Kei Sato, Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Mutsuhiro Toura

    Synopsis: The unstable social milieu of postwar Japan is brought into play in Violence at Noon. Two young women, whose lives are far from blissful, are raped by an equally disenfranchised assailant. Director Nagisa Oshima seems to argue that it is the horrid living conditions endured by the rapist and his Read More

    1966

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