Keizo Kanie
Keizo Kanie was a distinguished Japanese actor celebrated for his notable contributions to cinema. His remarkable talent garnered him accolades, including the esteemed award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival, recognizing his exceptional performances in films like Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979) and The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map (1979). His remarkable acting prowess continued to shine, earning him another best supporting actor award at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for his roles in Ready to Shoot (1990) and Boku to, bokura no natsu (1990). Tragically, he passed away on March 30, 2014, at the age of 69, succumbing to stomach cancer.
Temptation of Angel
as uncreditedA story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love....
Movie page
Crest of Betrayal
as Ichigaku ShimuzuWeaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and...
Movie page
Angel Guts: Red Classroom
as Tetsuro MurakiWhen Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he...
Movie page
A School Behind Bars
as uncredited"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano...
Movie page
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as uncreditedOlder, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful...
Movie page
Rape!
as uncreditedA rape victim realizes that she enjoys sexual assault and continuously offers herself to various...
Movie page
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
as MamushiHanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects...
Movie page
Fall Guy
as Film DirectorGinshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry...
Movie page
Female Teacher
as Satoru Kobayashi(小林悟)A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to...
Movie page
Sure Death 4
as KyuzoHaving been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled...
Movie page
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as uncreditedAgainst the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo...
Movie page
Zatoichi at Large
as uncreditedBlind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman,...
Movie page
The Little Maestro
as Genji ArasawaThis movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture,...
Movie page
The Demon
as Akutsu, Sôkichi's colleagueWhen Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of...
Movie page
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
as uncreditedFearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own...
Movie page
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
as Kazuya FunabashiAndo on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old...
Movie page
Kaoyaku
as SakamotoA detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
Movie page
Yellow Fangs
as uncreditedBased on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki...
Movie page
Onihei's Detective Records
as uncreditedA criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Movie page
Amachan
as Chūbee AmanoAki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to...
Movie page
Goaisatsu
as uncreditedAn anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Movie page
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
as ShiwaIt's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in...
Movie page
Muddy River
as PolicemanTwo boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close...
Movie page
Farewell to the Land
as DaijinYukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his...
Movie page
Distant Thunder
as Husband of KaedeA young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation...
Movie page
Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
as NakaoKabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death...
Movie page
House on Fire
as uncreditedIn the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family,...
Movie page
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
as Kazuo HomataA young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection...
Movie page
Amagi Pass
as uncreditedA fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of...
Movie page
Tattooed Flower Vase
as uncreditedMs. Yoshino, respectable lady and attractive widow, leads a quiet and peaceful life with her...
Movie page
Sukeban Deka: The Movie
as NishiwakiAfter the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent...
Movie page
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
as uncreditedAfter serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He...
Movie page
A Chaos of Flowers
as Hogetsu ShimamuraSet in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story...
Movie page
The Abe Clan
as Abe GonbeiA Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the...
Movie page
The Gentle Japanese
as ShigeA survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a...
Movie page
The Second Is a Christian
as Isomura, Coordinator of the Tenryu groupThe story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very...
Movie page
Ping Pong Bath Station
as uncreditedAn unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.
Movie page
The Three Undelivered Letters
as uncreditedA young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...
Movie page
Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
as uncreditedYuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an...
Movie page
Sway
as Osamu HayakawaA psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to...
Movie page
Fine, Totally Fine
as EitaroTwo listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love...
Movie page
Detective Story
as Detective TakamineNaomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a...
Movie page
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
as KonnoA 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
as Kobusa no KumehachiHeizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that...
Movie page
One Who Died in Vain
as uncreditedAfter returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Movie page
Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
as Sakai ZenzoThe samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered...
Movie page
Fire Festival
as uncreditedTatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land,...
Movie page
War and Flowers
as uncreditedJapanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
Movie page
Writhing Tongue
as YamagishiMasako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...
Movie page
Yokohama BJ Blues
as TetsuoBJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much...
Movie page
Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
as Mickey TokudaTwo high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion....
Movie page
Games
as uncreditedA 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind...
Movie page
Deeper Than Blue
as MasatoAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
Movie page
Ichigensan
as Head of the Kaizuka GangA foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds...
Movie page
Eros Eterna
as ManEros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several...
Movie page
Dark hunter
as YaheijiThief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering,...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
as Kobusa no KumehachiDetective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however,...
Movie page
Melodrama
as uncreditedThe film depicts the anguish of an arsonist as he approaches the statute of limitations.
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
as Kobusa no KumehachiTakahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed...
Movie page
The Boat to Heaven
as uncreditedA young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday....
Movie page
The Dropout
as uncreditedDetective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was...
Movie page
Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...
as uncreditedKaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways,...
Movie page
Ready to Shoot
as GunjiA middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in...
Movie page
Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
as uncreditedA suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a...
Movie page
Young Girls in Love
as Teiko's fatherThe story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by...
Movie page
Lost Lovers
as uncreditedA rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
as Kobusa no KumehachiEdo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of...
Movie page
Leave It to the Nurses
as uncreditedFlighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
as Kobusa no KumehachiHeizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen...
Movie page
The First Catch
as uncreditedBased on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Movie page
People of Twilight
as Yasuhiko ÔkuboA woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
as Kobusa no KumehachiAn old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in...
Movie page
Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
as Kobusa no KumehachiHeizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a...
Movie page
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
as uncreditedFourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Movie page
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Rintaro MiyoshiDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
TV Show page
Ryōmaden
as uncreditedRyōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010...
TV Show page
Amachan
as Chūbee AmanoAmachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka)....
TV Show page
Kimi no na wa
as 多比良良作A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
TV Show page
Kogarashi Monjiro
as RisukeMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
TV Show page
Veterinarian Dolittle
as uncreditedTottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase...
TV Show page
Janus no Kagami
as Shuuichi ShindouThe series is about a girl suffering from multiple personality disorder.
TV Show page
Beautiful Rain
as Nakamura TomioA young daughter (Mana Ashida) supports her father (Etsushi Toyokawa) who is diagnosed with...
TV Show page
Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron Mask
as NishikawiSukeban Deka II in 1985-1986 starred Yoko Minamino as the second "Sukeban Deka", a mysterious...
TV Show page
Waga Machi
as uncreditedBased on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular...
TV Show page
Yesterday Enemy is Still Enemy Today
as Kanzaki HideoArashi Kohei, inherits a pharmaceutical company from his deceased father. Despite the hard work...
TV Show page
Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata ~Ending Planner~
as Kotaro IharaSaikō no Jinsei no Owarikata: Ending Planner is a Japanese television drama series. It premiered...
TV Show page
Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword
as Hidetada TokugawaAfter the 'Incident at Honnoji' (assassination of Oda Nobunaga by Akechi Mitsuhide, a former...
TV Show page
Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version)
as Nakagawa KohjiAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, the gentle coming-of-age...
TV Show page