---
name: "Michael Kane"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-kane-7264"
fi1m_id: "michael-kane-7264"
imdb_id: "nm0437394"
tmdb_id: 7264
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T01:15:08.153256+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."
---

# Michael Kane

## Identity

Michael Kane

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-kane-7264
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-kane-7264
- **IMDb ID:** nm0437394
- **TMDB ID:** 7264
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437394/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7264

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1985–1994
- **Also known as:** Mike Kane
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (1), 1990s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437394/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7264

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Quiet Earth*](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-earth.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michael Kane is a New Zealand production designer and costume designer, also credited as Mike Kane. He began working in film in the early 1980s, initially in wardrobe and costume roles on New Zealand productions.

His credits include costume design on *The Quiet Earth* (1985), *Utu* (1983) and *Heart of the Stag* (1984). He later moved into production design, with credits on *Meet the Feebles* (1989), *Desperate Remedies* (1992), *Once Were Warriors* (1994) and *The Last Drop* (2006). He shared wardrobe design duties on *Once Were Warriors* with Pauline Pohatu.

*Sources: imdb.com, blog.tepapa.govt.nz.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Once Were Warriors* (1994), Fi1m 82, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/once-were-warriors.md)
- *The Quiet Earth* (1985), Fi1m 78, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-earth.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Riddle* (2007), Production Design
- *The Last Drop* (2006), Production Design
- *Dot.Kill* (2005), Production Design
- *Once Were Warriors* (1994), Set Designer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/once-were-warriors.md)
- *Desperate Remedies* (1993), Production Design
- *Bad Taste* (1987), as 3rd Class Alien
- *The Quiet Earth* (1985), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-earth.md)

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