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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2462 |
| Birthday | 1944-10-28 |
| Place of Birth | Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Keizo Kanie, Keizō Kanie, |
2007
Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...
0/0
Kaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways, but still live close to each other in central Tokyo....
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Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...
2008
Fine, Totally Fine
6/25
Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
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Fine, Totally Fine
1982
Fall Guy
6.5/28
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a...
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Fall Guy
1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Treasure
0/0
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Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Treasure
1990
The Shootist 2
0/0
Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'
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The Shootist 2
1987
Sukeban Deka: The Movie
6.545/11
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is n...
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Sukeban Deka: The Movie
2006
Sway
5.909/22
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
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Sway
1972
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
6.205/56
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. H...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
1973
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
6.197/38
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He s...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1974
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
5.847/36
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers prot...
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
1994
Dark Hunter
0/0
Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name o...
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Dark Hunter
2003
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
5.5/2
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However...
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
1976
Rape!
5.938/16
A rape victim realizes that she enjoys sexual assault and continuously offers herself to various men while searching for her original rapist.
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Rape!
1981
Muddy River
7.288/33
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
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Muddy River
1971
Kaoyaku
6/6
A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
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Kaoyaku
1974
Street of Joy
7/5
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...
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Street of Joy
2005
Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
0/0
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who work...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
2006
Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
0/0
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secre...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
2007
Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
8/2
Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of the...
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Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
2008
Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
8/1
Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of...
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Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
2009
Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
8/1
Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing...
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Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
1973
Love Affair in Purgatory
8.5/2
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Love Affair in Purgatory
1971
Lost Lovers
0/0
A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must ta...
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Lost Lovers
1981
Distant Thunder
6.8/12
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 k...
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Distant Thunder
1980
Writhing Tongue
7/6
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at t...
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Writhing Tongue
1985
Mattemashita tenkousei!
0/0
The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different insti...
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Mattemashita tenkousei!
2010
Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
8/1
Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg...
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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
2011
Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
8/1
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of...
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
1979
Angel Guts: Red Classroom
6.4/128
A porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.
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Angel Guts: Red Classroom
1988
Melodrama
0/0
The film depicts the anguish of an arsonist as he approaches the statute of limitations.
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Melodrama
1990
Yellow Fangs
7.1/8
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...
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Yellow Fangs
1989
War and Flowers
7/1
Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
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War and Flowers
1991
Goaisatsu
0/0
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
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Goaisatsu
1990
Ready to Shoot
3.667/3
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his...
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Ready to Shoot
2003
The Boat to Heaven
8/1
A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her d...
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The Boat to Heaven
1998
Ping Pong Bath Station
7.333/3
An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.
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Ping Pong Bath Station
2006
MAZE マゼ～南風～
0/0
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MAZE マゼ～南風～
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
0/0
Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
1977
Eros Eterna
4.556/9
A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles.
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Eros Eterna
1988
A Chaos of Flowers
7.5/4
Set in the Taisho era, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer,...
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A Chaos of Flowers
1976
Cobra 2
0/0
A Datsun driving, face-punching moody super-cop Cobra Cumera battles homicidal mobsters intent on causing mayhem and trouble in beautifully shot Tokyo...
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Cobra 2
1995
Onihei's Detective Records
9/2
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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Onihei's Detective Records
1985
The Second Is a Christian
6/2
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhi...
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The Second Is a Christian
1982
The Buddy: Yaji and Kita
0/0
Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from mask...
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The Buddy: Yaji and Kita
2013
The Little Maestro
6.3/3
This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture. People in this village depend on the local amateur orc...
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The Little Maestro
1977
Female Teacher
2.6/5
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
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Female Teacher
1976
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
7/2
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
1983
Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
5.7/3
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his gr...
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Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
1995
The Abe Clan
7.667/3
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...
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The Abe Clan
1982
The Dropout
6.4/7
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostit...
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The Dropout
1988
Yojo no jidai
7/1
Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.
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Yojo no jidai
1976
Brother and Sister
10/1
Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no husban...
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Brother and Sister
1973
Deeper Than Blue
8/1
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
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Deeper Than Blue
1979
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
7.2/10
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
1979
Temptation of Angel
5.4/5
A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since makin...
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Temptation of Angel
1994
Crest of Betrayal
5.462/13
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 beauti...
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Crest of Betrayal
2006
Nobunaga's Coffin
0/0
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Nobunaga's Coffin
1987
Sure Death 4
7/9
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t...
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Sure Death 4
1971
Games
6.5/2
A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind an...
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Games
1982
Farewell to the Land
4.875/8
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his...
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Farewell to the Land
1983
Detective Story
6.667/6
A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
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Detective Story
2004
Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
0/0
The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest t...
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Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
1989
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
6.45/50
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 middl...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1977
Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
4.333/6
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 so...
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Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
1979
Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
4.8/6
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 c...
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
7.8/8
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a privat...
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Yokohama BJ Blues
1980
The First Catch
3.5/4
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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The First Catch
2000
Ichigensan
8/1
A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.
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Ichigensan
1998
Amagi Pass
1/2
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes p...
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Amagi Pass
1976
Tattooed Flower Vase
6/14
After losing her husband, a traditional puppet artisan has lived a life without love. However, her relationship with her daughter and the arrival of s...
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Tattooed Flower Vase
1983
Lanterns on Blue Waters
5.8/5
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 an...
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
1986
One Who Died in Vain
7.833/6
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
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One Who Died in Vain
1986
House on Fire
4.5/10
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
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House on Fire
1984
People of Twilight
0/0
A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching...
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People of Twilight
2010
A School Behind Bars
10/1
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefec...
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A School Behind Bars
1999
おとり捜査官・北見志穂Ⅱ
0/0
After a series of arson attacks targeting red cars happens in the vicinity of Shiba Park, Shiho Kitami and Detective Hakamada of the MPD's First Inves...
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おとり捜査官・北見志穂Ⅱ
1985
Fire Festival
5.7/10
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
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Fire Festival
1971
The Gentle Japanese
10/1
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
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The Gentle Japanese
1989
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
9/1
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
1972
Zatoichi at Large
6.654/39
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the ba...
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Zatoichi at Large
1967
Classmates
6.5/4
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Classmates
1978
The Demon
6.6/41
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 wit...
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The Demon
1989
Sensei
8/1
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays. The only person who is seriously worried about t...
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Sensei
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
6/8
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household...
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The Three Undelivered Letters
2002
Leave It to the Nurses
6.8/5
Flighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to tak...
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Leave It to the Nurses
1980
Drive for the Future
10/1
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Drive for the Future
1993
Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
0/0
A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise fu...
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Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
1986
Young Girls in Love
7/2
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own...
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Young Girls in Love
2008
Galileo Zero
8/8
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. D...
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Galileo Zero
1985
わが娘が消えた夜
0/0
The family of a female theater critic is the target of unfounded hatred. The woman has no idea what is going on. Then, her daughter is kidnapped by so...
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わが娘が消えた夜
2005
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
0/0
In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept students who had previously dropped out of high school...
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Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
1974
Mr. Mutsugoro’s Happy Marriage
0/0
1974 Japanese movie
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Mr. Mutsugoro’s Happy Marriage
1980
The Wicked
6.667/6
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.
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The Wicked
2000
Today is closed again
0/0
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Today is closed again
1990
Tigers Memorial Club Band: My Summer, and Our Summer
0/0
In a quiet provincial city, a teenage boy and a girl from the wrong side of the tracks are drawn together when a classmate's mysterious death pulls th...
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Tigers Memorial Club Band: My Summer, and Our Summer
1995
Kura
7.5/2
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her d...
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Kura
1979
Ameyuki-san
0/0
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.
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Ameyuki-san
1985
Shiawase no Kuni: Aoi Tori Patapata?
0/0
Set in the big city of Kobe, Hanako (Yuko Tanaka) is a woman who is positive and strong in Japan's old evil society and always tries to live with new...
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