---
name: "Hideo Kanze"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hideo-kanze"
fi1m_id: "hideo-kanze"
imdb_id: "nm0438047"
tmdb_id: 224658
wikidata_id: "Q4504936"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 August 1927"
died: "8 June 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:28:50.598557+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hideo Kanze

## Identity

Hideo Kanze

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hideo-kanze
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hideo-kanze
- **IMDb ID:** nm0438047
- **TMDB ID:** 224658
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4504936
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanze, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4504936, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438047/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224658

Actor. Born 3 August 1927 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. Died 8 June 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 August 1927, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 8 June 2007
- **Also known as:** 観世 栄夫
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanze, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4504936, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438047/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224658

## Biography

Hideo Kanze (観世栄夫) was a Japanese actor and Noh performer. Born in Tokyo on 3 August 1927, he was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojō VII of the Kanze school of Noh and made his stage debut at the age of three.

He trained in the Kanze school and briefly transferred to the Kita school before returning to the Kanze school. Kanze appeared in films from the 1960s onwards, including as a villager in *Woman in the Dunes* (1964), a policeman in *Pitfall* (1962), a male patient in *The Face of Another* (1966), Mikado in *Kuroneko* (1968) and roles in *Demons* (1971), *Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees* (1975) and *Edo Porn* (1981). He left Noh performance for a period but resumed in 1979 with assistance from his brother Hisao Kanze.

Kanze died in Tokyo on 8 June 2007.

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Woman in the Dunes* (1964), Fi1m 88, as Villager — [page](https://film.one/film/woman-in-the-dunes.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto* (2017), Actor
- *Will to Live* (1999), as Director of a hospital
- *House of Sleeping Beauties* (1995), Actor
- *A Last Note* (1995), as Fujihachiro Ushiguni
- *Zeami no nou* (1991), as Narrator (voice)
- *Rikyu* (1989), as Rikyu's Brother-in-Law
- *The Wangan Highway* (1984), Actor
- *Edo Porn* (1981), as Karino
- *The Strangling* (1979), Actor
- *The Life of Chikuzan* (1977), as Tokura
- *Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees* (1975), as Dainagon
- *Bôkenshatachi* (1975), Actor
- *Egg Delivery Man : Attack on Keishicho* (1975), Actor
- *The Key* (1974), Actor
- *Iro Nabeshima* (1973), as Narrator (voice)
- *Kanawa* (1972), as Man
- *Summer Soldiers* (1972), as Shimezu
- *Demons* (1971), as Takubei
- *Evil Spirits of Japan* (1970), as Gotô
- *Strange Affinity* (1970), Actor
- *Heat Wave Island* (1969), Actor
- *Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution* (1969), as Narrator (voice)
- *Strong Women, Weak Men* (1968), as Gonbee
- *Kuroneko* (1968), as Mikado
- *Japanese Summer: Double Suicide* (1967), Actor
- *Libido* (1967), Actor
- *Band of Ninja* (1967), as Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
- *Rebellion of Japan* (1967), Actor
- *Three Sisters* (1967), series, as Yoshinosuke Saigo
- *Lost Sex* (1966), as The Master
- *The Face of Another* (1966), as Male Patient
- *Violence at Noon* (1966), as Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
- *The Dawn of Asia* (1964), series, as Chinese general
- *Woman in the Dunes* (1964), as Villager — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/woman-in-the-dunes.md)
- *Human* (1962), as Konpira-san
- *Pitfall* (1962), as Policeman
- *The Weavers of Nishijin* (1961), as Nô player

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