Hideo Kanze

Will to Live (1999)

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 Mo ...

House of Sleeping Beauties (1995)

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 ...

A Last Note (1995)

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. ...

Rikyu (1989)

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. ...

The Wangan Highway (1984)

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

Edo Porn (1981)

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. ...

The Strangling (1979)

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. ...

The Life of Chikuzan (1977)

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 ...

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)

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

Bôkenshatachi (1975)

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

The Key (1974)

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 a ...

The Iron Crown (1972)

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. ...

Summer Soldiers (1972)

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. ...

Demons (1971)

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

Evil Spirits of Japan (1970)

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. ...

Strange Affinity (1970)

Heat Wave Island (1969)

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitu ...

Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution (1969)

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 ...

Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret. ...

Kuroneko (1968)

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 ca ...

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

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

Libido (1967)

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught between his wife's empathy and his children's judgmental scorn. As his health wavers, he and his wife atte ...

Band of Ninja (1967)

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filmi ...

Rebellion of Japan (1967)

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 ...

Lost Sex (1966)

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 ...

The Face of Another (1966)

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. ...

Violence at Noon (1966)

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

Human (1962)

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. ...

Pitfall (1962)

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. ...

The Weavers of Nishijin (1961)

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