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
- Shadow Warriors as Sakai Tadakiyo
- The Detective Journey
- Nurse's Husband
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Yoshio Yamamori
1979
- Kusa Moeru as Taira no Kiyomori
- The Inferno as Emma Daio
- Down with The Big Boss
- The Shogun Assassins as Hayashi Razan
- Devil's Flute
- Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kokichi Asakura
- Troubleman Laughs and Kills as Actor
- Faraway Tomorrow
1978
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
- Never Give Up as Head of Mizoguchi City
- Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Hideyoshi Hirayama
- The Fall of Ako Castle as Kira
- Dynamite Don-Don as Denjiro Hasimoto
- Karate Wars
1977
- Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Hirano
- Japan's Don as Shoji Taguchi
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard as Chief Akama
- New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
- Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
- Cobra 2 as Tajima
1975
1974
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Yoshio Yamamori
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Yoshio Yamamori
- Father of the Kamikaze
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Yoshio Imazu - Warden
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Yoshio Yamamori
- Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1973
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Yoshio Yamamori
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Yoshio Yamamori
- Dangerous Trade in Kobe
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Yoshio Yamamori
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
- Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
- Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle as Senzo Ogata
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates as Kakutarô Shinohara
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Hadano
- The Hard Core Criminal
- Queen of Eros as Narrator
1972
1971
- The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
- Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
- Story of Japanese Bad Men
1970
1968
- Living Skeleton as Suetsugu
- Human Torpedoes
- Enlisted Yakuza
- Hot Springs Geisha as Shinagawa
- Red Peony Gambler
- Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell as Tokuyasu
- Curse of the Blood as Sojun
- Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
- Rogue as Suyama
- Big Time Gambling Boss as Tasaburô Senba
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri
- Diamonds of the Andes
- Downtown Blues
- Scoundrel
- The Worship of the Flesh as Denbei
- Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1967
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
- Portrait of Chieko as Sawada
- Gambler's World as Ushimatsu Fujii
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Shurinosuke Asahina
- Organized Violence II as Head of Department
- Dissolution Rites as Itagaki
- The Last Loyalty Offering
- Escape Man
- Killer of Seven
- Under the Stars of Singapore
- The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1966
- New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
- Hi No Taiko
- Warm Current
- Convicted Woman
- The Magic Serpent as Dôjin Hiki
- Seven Gamblers
- Love Eternal as Aoki
- Dianas of the Campus
- Rub Out the Past
- The Harbor of No Return
- Prison Release Loyalty Offering
- Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Yakuza Vassal
- A Drop of Grease
1965
1964
- Giant Rumble
- Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unosuke
- Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
- The Flower and the Sword
- Black Thief
- Call My Black Dice as Sakakibara (Boss of the Tokyo-based Sakakibara gang)
- Main Street in the Underworld
- The Glamorous Ghost as Kenji Yamakoshi
- Red Handkerchief
- Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Honda Shinpachi
- Black Weapon
- Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office as Kansuke
- Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1963
- Youth of the Beast as Sôichi Ozawa
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Inspector Kumagaya
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Kumagai
- The Third Shadow Warrior
- 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
- Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Kozo Haraguchi
- Tokyo Knights as Mishima
- Quick Draw Joe as Mishima
- The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass as Ken
- Crimson Pistol
- An Angel is Chasing Me
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Katsumata
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- The Plateau Man
- Standing Towards the Great Forest
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take
- The Famous Wanderer
- Whistling in the Darkness
1960
1959
- Farewell to Southern Tosa
- The Rambling Guitarist as Akitsu
- Kawaii Onna
- Friendship of Jazz
- Merciless Bullet as Sawamura
- The Echo of Love
- The Wild Reporter as Funakoshi
- We Live Today
- Get Over Her as Yoshino
- A Man Explodes
- The Praying Man as Shinichiro Kuraki
- Ningyō no uta
- The Age of Our Own
1958
- Night Drum
- Voice Without a Shadow as Kawai
- That Wonderful Guy
- Unga as Hitoshi Itami
- Tomorrow is Another Day
- Wolves of the Night
- The Man Who Rode the Typhoon as Yuzo Hayata
- Forever, My Love as Tachio Kinumaki
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Denbei
- Eight Hours of Terror as Kosaku Mori
- Man Who Causes a Storm as Toru Sakyo, the critic
- The Barefoot Girl
- This Day's Life
- Madam
- The Awakening
- 危険な関係
1956
- Hungry Soul as Reiji Ajioka
- Summer Storm as Kido
- Hungry Soul, Part II as Reiji Ajioka
- Wandering Shore
- Lunar Eclipse
- Phoenix as Fuji director
- Called to the Stand
- Gyakukōsen
- Okinawa no Tami
- Tonari no yome
1955
- Floating Clouds
- Till We Meet Again as Akira Mimura
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Sayama
- Stray Sheep as Haraguchi, the painter
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- A Hole of My Own Making
- So Deep in My Heart
1954
- The Garden of Women as Kihei Hirato
- Sound of the Mountain
- Cape Ashizuri
- Wakai hito-tachi
- Itsuko to sono haha as Tokuji Funabashi
- Student Double Suicide
1953
- The Red Light Military Base as Sugio Kawanabe
- Waseda University as Hotani Nitarō
- At the End of the Clouds
1952
- Ikiru as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- Vacuum Zone as Sergeant Kaneko
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- Violence
1950
- The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Kashima