Will to Live

House of Sleeping Beauties

A Last Note

Rikyu

The Wangan Highway

Edo Porn

The Strangling

The Life of Chikuzan

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

Bôkenshatachi

The Key

The Iron Crown

Summer Soldiers

Demons

Evil Spirits of Japan

Strange Affinity

Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution

Strong Women, Weak Men

Kuroneko

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Libido

Band of Ninja

Rebellion of Japan

Three Sisters

Lost Sex

The Face of Another

Violence at Noon

The Dawn of Asia

Human

Pitfall

The Weavers of Nishijin

Hideo Kanze (観世 栄夫, Kanze Hideo, August 3, 1927 – June 8, 2007) was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama.
He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojō VII, a descendant of Kan'ami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather, Kanze made his Noh stage debut at the age of three. After World War II ended, Kanze attended the Tokyo Music School, although he dropped out before completing his studies. With his family running one of Japan's five main Noh schools, Kanze was controversially adopted by another school, the Kita group, for 11 years.
His activities caused an uproar in the Noh community, and he quit the movement, acting in conventional drama and films.  With the help of his older brother, Hisao Kanze, also an actor, Hideo resumed his career in Noh in 1979.
On May 2, 2007, Kanze was involved in a serious car accident when his car crashed into the median strip on the Chūō Expressway in Tokyo. An elderly female passenger, believed to be a colleague, suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital.
Kanze died just over a month after the accident from intestinal cancer, aged 79.

Hideo Kanze