Hideo Kanze
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Hideo Kanze.
Born: August 3, 1927
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Three Sisters
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
The Life of Chikuzan
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
Demons
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
The Weavers of Nishijin
The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.
Rikyu
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 becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
Kuroneko
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 returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Pitfall
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 lost souls.
A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Filmography
as Director of a hospital
as Fujihachiro Ushiguni
as Rikyu's Brother-in-Law
as Karino
as Tokura
as Dainagon
as Man
as Shimezu
as Takubei
as Gotô
as Narrator (voice)
as Gonbee
as Mikado
as Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
as Yoshinosuke Saigo
as The Master
as Male Patient
as Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
as Chinese general
as Konpira-san
as Policeman
as Nô player