Hideo Kanze
Also Known As: 観世 栄夫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 03, 1927
Deathday: June 08, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Weavers of Nishijin
Overview: The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Kuroneko
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-24
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The Face of Another
Overview: A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Rikyu
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Violence at Noon
Overview: Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Strong Women, Weak Men
Overview: After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Overview: Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao's dictator tendency during the cultural revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-08
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Overview: A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-02
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Human
Overview: 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 as food and water run out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-04
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Pitfall
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Evil Spirits of Japan
Overview: 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 they look.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Edo Porn
Overview: 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 Bakin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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A Last Note
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-03
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
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The Iron Crown
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-22
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The Key
Overview: 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, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-04
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Rebellion of Japan
Overview: 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 with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Libido
Overview: aka Libido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Demons
Overview: Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-13
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The Strangling
Overview: The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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Bôkenshatachi
Overview: A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-14
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House of Sleeping Beauties
Overview: 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 men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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The Life of Chikuzan
Overview: A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Summer Soldiers
Overview: During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-25
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Lost Sex
Overview: A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-27
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Strange Affinity
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-03
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The Wangan Highway
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-29
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Will to Live
Overview: 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 for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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The Dawn of Asia
Overview: The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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Band of Ninja
Overview: A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Genres: Animation Drama Action War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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