Keizo Kanie

Acting

Keizo Kanie

Born 1944-10-28 · Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan

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.

Acting credits

Female Teacher poster
2.6

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.

Female Teacher

1977

Crest of Betrayal poster
5.5

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.

Crest of Betrayal

1994

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting poster
4.3

Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting

1977

The Wicked poster
6.7

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

The Wicked

1980

Fire Festival poster
5.7

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.

Fire Festival

1985

Angel Guts: Red Classroom poster
6.4

A porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

1979

Fall Guy poster
6.5

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.

Fall Guy

1982

House on Fire poster
4.5

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

House on Fire

1986

Street of Joy poster
7.0

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.

Street of Joy

1974

The Demon poster
6.6

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

The Demon

1978

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.5

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice poster
6.2

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

1972

Rape! poster
5.9

A rape victim realizes that she enjoys sexual assault and continuously offers herself to various men while searching for her original rapist.

Rape!

1976

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly poster
4.8

A young man has more on his hands than he can handle: a child he rarely sees, a runaway wife, and a young prostitute he has just met. The close-knit city of Tokyo brings them all together.

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

1979

Zatoichi at Large poster
6.7

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.

Zatoichi at Large

1972

Yellow Fangs poster
7.1

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.

Yellow Fangs

1990

The Shootist 2 poster
NR

Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'

The Shootist 2

1990

Sway poster
5.9

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Sway

2006

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex poster
7.0

Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

1976

Lanterns on Blue Waters poster
5.8

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

Lanterns on Blue Waters

1983

Muddy River poster
7.3

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Muddy River

1981

Distant Thunder poster
6.8

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Distant Thunder

1981

Eros Eterna poster
4.6

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.

Eros Eterna

1977

Ameyuki-san poster
NR

This film focuses on the dramatic life of Waka Yamada, who rose from a prostitute in Seattle, USA to a female critic during the Taisho and Showa eras.

Ameyuki-san

1979