Cast: Hideo Kanze

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Synopsis An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope ladder. But overnight, the ladder disappears and there's no way...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Synopsis 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Kei Sato · Kei Yamamoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Yasuko Sanjo · Juro Kara · Masao Imafuku

Synopsis A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe (a Ronin), and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him. This is basically the whole plot in a nutshell, but this isn't any kind of action...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Hisashi Igawa · Kunie Tanaka · Hideo Kanze · Sumie Sasaki

Synopsis 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.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shima Iwashita · Hiroko Isayama · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees tells the tale of a beautiful city woman and a bandit that has fallen in love with her. After kidnapping the object of his affection and bringing her to his mountain lair, the bandit asks...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hideo Kanze · Hideko Kawaguchi · Saeda Kawaguchi · Narumi Kayashima

Synopsis A new study by Oshima of the sexuality and violence that mark Japanese society: the portrayal of a rapist and killer of women constructed thanks to the memories of his wife and one of his victims. One of the director’s...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yôsuke Enomoto · Tatsumi Hijikata · Eiko Horii · Hideo Kanze

Synopsis Based on the novel by Kazumi Takahashi.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. So they swtiched their positions. Murase...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Nobuko Otowa · Hideo Kanze · Kyoko Asagiri

Synopsis Yoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a secret from her companion Toyoko.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hideo Kanze · Meg Flower · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis Based on the Noh drama with the same name, The Iron Crown is about a woman plotting revenge against her husband who leaves her for a younger woman. Shindo's adaptation juxtaposes the Noh drama with a modern update of the...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Sakurai · Kei Sato · Tetsuo Ashida · Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Synopsis A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the death...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Hideo Kanze · Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Eijirô Tono

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Masao Kusakari · Kanako Higuchi · Kaoru Kobayashi · Mitsuko Kusabue

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Jiro Daimaru · Daigo Kusano

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Eiko Yamagishi · Taiji Tonoyama · Hideo Kanze

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Hideo Kanze · Takeshi Kusaka

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Kayo Matsuo · Hideo Kanze

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Keith Sykes · Reisen Lee · Kazuo Kitamura · Toshiko Kobayashi

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...

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.