Nobuo Kaneko
Acting • Born 1923-03-27 – Died 1995-01-20
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
236 credits
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Red Bud and White Flower
Movie • 1962
Never Give Up
Movie • 1978
Head of Mizoguchi City
Phoenix
Movie • 1956
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Movie • 1961
Kirihara Gôchô
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
Movie • 1966
Ryûri no kishi
Movie • 1956
Rogue
Movie • 1968
Suyama
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Movie • 1977
Hirano
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Movie • 1962
Warm Current
Movie • 1966
Sound of the Mountain
Movie • 1954
Godzilla 1985
Movie • 1985
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Movie • 1961
Main Street in the Underworld
Movie • 1964
The Magic Serpent
Movie • 1966
Dôjin Hiki
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Movie • 1964
Unosuke
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Movie • 1974
Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
Movie • 1973
Narrator
Intimidation
Movie • 1960
Kyosuke Takita
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Movie • 1963
Inspector Kumagaya
Woman Boss
Movie • 1970
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Movie • 1957
Denbei
Living Skeleton
Movie • 1968
Suetsugu
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Movie • 1973
Hadano
Cape Ashizuri
Movie • 1954
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
Movie • 1973
Kakutarô Shinohara
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Movie • 1968
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Movie • 1961
Standing Towards the Great Forest
Movie • 1961
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Movie • 1974
Yoshio Imazu - Warden
The Worship of the Flesh
Movie • 1968
Denbei
Man Who Causes a Storm
Movie • 1957
Toru Sakyo, the critic
The Experience
Movie • 1970
The Garden of Women
Movie • 1954
Kihei Hirato
The Wild Reporter
Movie • 1959
Funakoshi
Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
Movie • 1975
The Inferno
Movie • 1979
Emma Daio
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Movie • 1974
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Movie • 1958
Last Round
Movie • 1962
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Movie • 1973
Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
Flowering Maidens
Movie • 1965
Matsui
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Movie • 1968
Summer Storm
Movie • 1956
Kido
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Movie • 1974
Yoshio Yamamori
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Movie • 1974
Yoshio Yamamori
A Man Explodes
Movie • 1959
The Yakuza Awaits
Movie • 1969
Jūdan no arashi
Movie • 1962
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie • 1955
Sayama
Enlisted Yakuza
Movie • 1968
The Harbor of No Return
Movie • 1966
Ai to shi no katami
Movie • 1962
Whistling in the Darkness
Movie • 1961
Black Weapon
Movie • 1964
Kokkai e ikô!
Movie • 1993
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
Movie • 1976
Crimson pistol belt
Movie • 1961
Bōkyō no umi
Movie • 1962
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Movie • 1962
The Imperial Navy
Movie • 1981
Chuichi Nagumo
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Movie • 1971
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
Song of a Traveller
Movie • 1962
Wolves of the Night
Movie • 1958
Traces of Lead
Movie • 1962
Story of Japanese Bad Men
Movie • 1971
Return of the Vagabond
Movie • 1960
Chivalrous Life
Movie • 1965
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Movie • 1973
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
This Day's Life
Movie • 1957
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Movie • 1973
Yoshio Yamamori
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Movie • 1960
Red Handkerchief
Movie • 1964
Voice Without a Shadow
Movie • 1958
Kawai
Eight Hours of Terror
Movie • 1957
Kosaku Mori
The Age of Our Own
Movie • 1959
The Rambling Guitarist
Movie • 1959
Akitsu
Curse of the Blood
Movie • 1968
Sojun
Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1968
Cobra 2
Movie • 1976
Tajima
Vacuum Zone
Movie • 1952
Nurse's Husband
Movie • 1980
Night Drum
Movie • 1958
The Glamorous Ghost
Movie • 1964
Kenji Yamakoshi
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Movie • 1950
Kashima
A Hole of My Own Making
Movie • 1955
Tonari no yome
Movie • 1956
Called to the Stand
Movie • 1956
Madam
Movie • 1957
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Movie • 1964
Honda Shinpachi
Dynamite Don-Don
Movie • 1978
Denjiro Hasimoto
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Movie • 1980
Yoshio Yamamori
Karate Wars
Movie • 1978
The Return of Godzilla
Movie • 1984
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Stray Sheep
Movie • 1955
Haraguchi, the painter
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Movie • 1968
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie • 1970
Downtown Blues
Movie • 1968
The Barefoot Girl
Movie • 1957
Lunar Eclipse
Movie • 1956
Black Thief
Movie • 1964
The Bad Guy Blues
Movie • 1969
King of the Night Life
Movie • 1970
The Poem of the Blue Star
Movie • 1960
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Movie • 1973
Yoshio Yamamori
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Movie • 1973
Yoshio Yamamori
Father of the Kamikaze
Movie • 1974
Devil's Flute
Movie • 1979
Tokyo Knights
Movie • 1961
Mishima
Samurai Geisha
Movie • 1969
Osuga
Red Peony Gambler
Movie • 1968
Organized Violence II
Movie • 1967
Head of Department
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie • 1989
Yoshiyuki Kawashima
The Third Shadow Warrior
Movie • 1963
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Movie • 1972
Chief of Police
Yakuza Graveyard
Movie • 1976
Chief Akama
Dissolution Rites
Movie • 1967
Itagaki
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Movie • 1975
Vendetta of a Samurai
Movie • 1952
Portrait of Chieko
Movie • 1967
Sawada
Shogun's Samurai
Movie • 1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
Movie • 1978
Kira
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Movie • 1961
Kozo Haraguchi
Down with The Big Boss
Movie • 1979
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Movie • 1967
Shimane Prison Riot
Movie • 1975
Torao Yoshinari
The Biggest Gamble
Movie • 1969
Rub Out the Past
Movie • 1966
The Black Cat
Movie • 1965
Karate Cop 2
Movie • 1983
The Plateau Man
Movie • 1961
Hot Springs Geisha
Movie • 1968
Shinagawa
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Movie • 1973
Senzo Ogata
The Shogun Assassins
Movie • 1979
Hayashi Razan
Convicted Woman
Movie • 1966
Gambler's World
Movie • 1967
Ushimatsu Fujii
The Hard Core Criminal
Movie • 1973
Turtle Geisha
Movie • 1972
Seven Gamblers
Movie • 1966
Faraway Tomorrow
Movie • 1979
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Movie • 1967
Shurinosuke Asahina
Quick Draw Joe
Movie • 1961
Mishima
The Revenge and the Death
Movie • 1963
Kawazu
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1955
Akira Mimura
That Wonderful Guy
Movie • 1958
Thugs of Shinjuku
Movie • 1970
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Movie • 1968
Tokuyasu
Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie • 1970
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Movie • 1979
Kokichi Asakura
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Movie • 1961
The Praying Man
Movie • 1959
Shinichiro Kuraki
Forever, My Love
Movie • 1958
Tachio Kinumaki
The Lost Diamond
Movie • 1960
Postwar Secrets
Movie • 1970
The Pledge
Movie • 1972
Big Time Gambling Boss
Movie • 1968
Tasaburô Senba
Love Eternal
Movie • 1966
Aoki
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Movie • 1971
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Movie • 1959
The Flower and the Sword
Movie • 1964
Hungry Soul
Movie • 1956
Reiji Ajioka
Okinawa no Tami
Movie • 1956
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
Movie • 1964
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
Movie • 1972
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Movie • 1978
Hideyoshi Hirayama
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
Movie • 1975
Hungry Soul, Part II
Movie • 1956
Reiji Ajioka
Giant Rumble
Movie • 1964
Youth of the Beast
Movie • 1963
Sôichi Ozawa
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Movie • 1972
Cops vs. Thugs
Movie • 1975
Masaichi Tomoyasu
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Movie • 1976
Floating Clouds
Movie • 1955
Surgical Designs in Flames
Movie • 1986
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Movie • 1970
Check
Movie • 1991
Tennoji
Friendship of Jazz
Movie • 1959
Wind and waves of the South
Movie • 1961
Kihei
Itsuko to sono haha
Movie • 1954
Tokuji Funabashi
Red-Light Bases
Movie • 1953
Sugio Kawanabe
A Yakuza Goes Home
Movie • 1970
Japan's Don
Movie • 1977
Shoji Taguchi
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Movie • 1964
Kansuke
The Great Shogunate Battle
Movie • 1991
Gyakukōsen
Movie • 1956
The Rambler Rides Again
Movie • 1960
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Movie • 1979
Actor
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Movie • 1975
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Movie • 1961
Katsumata
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Movie • 1973
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Movie • 1963
Kumagai
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie • 1955
Dianas of the Campus
Movie • 1966
Yakuza Vassal
Movie • 1966
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
Movie • 1971
At the End of the Clouds
Movie • 1953
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Movie • 1967
The Law's Bloody Wounds
Movie • 1960
The Fatal Raid
Movie • 1969
Violence
Movie • 1952
Student Double Suicide
Movie • 1954
A Drop of Grease
Movie • 1966
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
Movie • 1966
The Last Loyalty Offering
Movie • 1967
The Echo of Love
Movie • 1959
Merciless Bullet
Movie • 1959
Sawamura
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Movie • 1958
Shōwa Gokudōshi
Movie • 1972
Color
Movie • 1965
Killer of Seven
Movie • 1967
Kawaii Onna
Movie • 1959
The Awakening
Movie • 1957
Wakai toppū
Movie • 1960
Wakai hito-tachi
Movie • 1954
The Man Who Became The Don
Movie • 1991
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
Movie • 1965
Diamonds of the Andes
Movie • 1968
The Detective Journey
Movie • 1980
Portrait of Chieko
Movie • 1967
Yamazaki
Scoundrel
Movie • 1968
An Angel is Chasing Me
Movie • 1961
We Live Today
Movie • 1959
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Movie • 1964
アッと驚く為五郎
Movie • 1970
Ningyō no uta
Movie • 1959
Get Over Her
Movie • 1959
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Movie • 1966
Under the Stars of Singapore
Movie • 1967
Escape Man
Movie • 1967
でかんしょ風来坊
Movie • 1961
Kusa Moeru
TV • 1979
Taira no Kiyomori
Shadow Warriors
TV • 1980
Sakai Tadakiyo
Shōgun
TV • 1980
Ishido
Unified Shadows
TV • 1975
Father and Son Hawk
TV • 1994