Nobuo Kaneko
Born: 1923-03-27 in Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1995-01-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo, 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.
Filmography
1994
1993
1991
1989
- Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
1985
- Godzilla 1985 as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1984
- The Return of Godzilla as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1983
1981
- The Imperial Navy as Chuichi Nagumo
1980
- Shōgun as Ishido
- Nurse's Husband
- Shadow Warriors as Sakai Tadakiyo
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Yoshio Yamamori
- The Detective Journey
1979
- Troubleman Laughs and Kills as Actor
- Down with The Big Boss
- Devil's Flute
- The Shogun Assassins as Hayashi Razan
- The Inferno as Emma Daio
- Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kokichi Asakura
- Faraway Tomorrow
- Kusa Moeru as Taira no Kiyomori
1978
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Hideyoshi Hirayama
- Never Give Up as Head of Mizoguchi City
- Shogun's Samurai
- The Fall of Ako Castle as Kira
- Dynamite Don-Don as Denjiro Hasimoto
- Karate Wars
1977
- Japan's Don as Shoji Taguchi
- Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Hirano
1976
- New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
- Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
- Yakuza Graveyard as Chief Akama
- Cobra 2 as Tajima
1975
1974
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Warden
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
- Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Yoshio Yamamori
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Yoshio Yamamori
- Father of the Kamikaze
1973
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage as Kakutarô Shinohara
- Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Yoshio Yamamori
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Yoshio Yamamori
- The Hard Core Criminal
- Dangerous Trade in Kobe
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Hadano
- Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle as Senzo Ogata
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Yoshio Yamamori
- Semi-Document: Eros No Joô as Narrator
1972
1971
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
- The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
- Story of Japanese Bad Men
- Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1970
1968
- Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell as Tokuyasu
- Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
- Living Skeleton as Suetsugu
- Hot Springs Geisha as Shinagawa
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri
- Red Peony Gambler
- Big Time Gambling Boss as Tasaburô Senba
- Human Torpedoes
- Curse of the Blood as Sojun
- Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
- Downtown Blues
- Rogue as Suyama
- Scoundrel
- Enlisted Yakuza
- Diamonds of the Andes
- The Worship of the Flesh as Denbei
1967
- The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
- Under the Stars of Singapore
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Shurinosuke Asahina
- Gambler's World as Ushimatsu Fujii
- Killer of Seven
- Portrait of Chieko as Sawada
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
- The Last Loyalty Offering
- Dissolution Rites as Itagaki
- Organized Violence II as Head of Department
- Escape Man
1966
- The Magic Serpent as Dôjin Hiki
- The Harbor of No Return
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Rub Out the Past
- Convicted Woman
- A Drop of Grease
- Seven Gamblers
- Dianas of the Campus
- Prison Release Loyalty Offering
- Yakuza Vassal
- Warm Current
- Love Eternal as Aoki
- Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1965
1964
- Black Thief
- Red Handkerchief
- Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office as Kansuke
- Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
- The Glamorous Ghost as Kenji Yamakoshi
- Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unosuke
- Giant Rumble
- Black Weapon
- The Flower and the Sword
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Honda Shinpachi
- Main Street in the Underworld
- Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1963
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Inspector Kumagaya
- Youth of the Beast as Sôichi Ozawa
- The Third Shadow Warrior
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Kumagai
- The Revenge and the Death as Kawazu
1962
1961
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Kirihara Gôchô
- Wind and waves of the South as Kihei
- Whistling in the Darkness
- Quick Draw Joe as Mishima
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Katsumata
- Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Kozo Haraguchi
- The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
- Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
- Tokyo Knights as Mishima
- Crimson pistol belt
- Standing Towards the Great Forest
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take
- The Plateau Man
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- でかんしょ風来坊
1960
1959
- Merciless Bullet as Sawamura
- The Rambling Guitarist as Akitsu
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- The Praying Man as Shinichiro Kuraki
- Friendship of Jazz
- Kawaii Onna
- Ningyō no uta
- A Man Explodes
- We Live Today
- The Wild Reporter as Funakoshi
- The Echo of Love
- Get Over Her
- The Age of Our Own
1958
1957
- Man Who Causes a Storm as Toru Sakyo, the critic
- Eight Hours of Terror as Kosaku Mori
- The Barefoot Girl
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Denbei
- This Day's Life
- The Awakening
- Madam
1956
- Hungry Soul as Reiji Ajioka
- Tonari no yome
- Summer Storm as Kido
- Hungry Soul, Part II as Reiji Ajioka
- Gyakukōsen
- Called to the Stand
- Phoenix
- Okinawa no Tami
- Lunar Eclipse
- Ryûri no kishi
1955
- Till We Meet Again as Akira Mimura
- Stray Sheep as Haraguchi, the painter
- Floating Clouds
- A Hole of My Own Making
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Sayama
1954
- Student Double Suicide
- The Garden of Women as Kihei Hirato
- Sound of the Mountain
- Itsuko to sono haha as Tokuji Funabashi
- Cape Ashizuri
- Wakai hito-tachi
1953
- At the End of the Clouds
- Red-Light Bases as Sugio Kawanabe
1952
- Ikiru as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- Violence
- Vacuum Zone
1950
- The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Kashima