Hideo Kanze Movies

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kusaka

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saeda Kawaguchi

After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mao Zedong

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiko Sakurai

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisashi Igawa

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kei Satō

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him,...

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Cast: Shigeko Ando

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

aka Libido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniaki Shimizu

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keith Sykes

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Kanze

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Kusakari

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō