Nobuo Kaneko
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.
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Acting History
1994
Father and Son Hawk
1993Kokkai e ikô!
1991The Great Shogunate Battle
1991Check as Tennoji
1991The Man Who Became The Don
1989Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
1986Surgical Designs in Flames
1985Godzilla 1985 as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1984The Return of Godzilla as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1983Karate Cop 2
1981The Imperial Navy as Chuichi Nagumo
1980The Detective Journey
1980Shōgun as Ishido
1980Nurse's Husband
1980Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Yoshio Yamamori
1980Shadow Warriors as Sakai Tadakiyo
1979Faraway Tomorrow
1979The Shogun Assassins as Hayashi Razan
1979Troubleman Laughs and Kills as Actor
1979The Inferno as Emma Daio
1979Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kokichi Asakura
1979Down with The Big Boss
1979Devil's Flute
1979Kusa Moeru as Taira no Kiyomori
1978The Fall of Ako Castle as Kira
1978Never Give Up as Head of Mizoguchi City
1978Dynamite Don-Don as Denjiro Hasimoto
1978Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Hideyoshi Hirayama
1978Shogun's Samurai
1978Karate Wars
1977Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Hirano
1977Japan's Don as Shoji Taguchi
1976Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1976New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976Yakuza Graveyard as Chief Akama
1976Cobra 2 as Tajima
1975Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
1975That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Everyone!
1975300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
1975Shimane Prison Riot as Torao Yoshinari
1975The Murder Corps
1975Cops vs. Thugs as Masaichi Tomoyasu
1975Unified Shadows
1975The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Warden
1974The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1974Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974Father of the Kamikaze
1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Yoshio Yamamori
1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Yoshio Yamamori
1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage as Kakutarô Shinohara
1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Yoshio Yamamori
1973Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle as Senzo Ogata
1973Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Hadano
1973The Hard Core Criminal
1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Yoshio Yamamori
1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
1973Semi-Document: Eros No Joô as Narrator
1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Yoshio Yamamori
1973Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
1972Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1972New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972The Pledge
1972Turtle Geisha
1972Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang as Chief of Police
1971The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
1970Thugs of Shinjuku
1970The Experience
1970Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970King of the Night Life
1970Postwar Secrets
1970アッと驚く為五郎
1970Duel at Fort Ezo
1970A Yakuza Goes Home
1970Woman Boss
1969The Bad Guy Blues
1969The Fatal Raid
1969Samurai Geisha as Osuga
1969The Biggest Gamble
1969The Yakuza Awaits
1968New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968Living Skeleton as Suetsugu
1968Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1968Rogue as Suyama
1968Enlisted Yakuza
1968Red Peony Gambler
1968Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell as Tokuyasu
1968Downtown Blues
1968The Worship of the Flesh as Denbei
1968Hot Springs Geisha as Shinagawa
1968Curse of the Blood as Sojun
1968Diamonds of the Andes
1968Scoundrel
1968Big Time Gambling Boss as Tasaburô Senba
1968Human Torpedoes
1967The Last Loyalty Offering
1967Escape Man
1967The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967Killer of Seven
1967Gambler's World as Ushimatsu Fujii
1967Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Shurinosuke Asahina
1967Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967Organized Violence II as Head of Department
1967Portrait of Chieko as Sawada
1967Portrait of Chieko as Yamazaki
1967Dissolution Rites as Itagaki
1967Under the Stars of Singapore
1966Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1966Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1966A Drop of Grease
1966Rub Out the Past
1966The Harbor of No Return
1966Seven Gamblers
1966Love Eternal as Aoki
1966Dianas of the Campus
1966Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966Warm Current
1966Convicted Woman
1966Yakuza Vassal
1966The Magic Serpent as Dôjin Hiki
1965Color
1965Chivalrous Life
1965The Black Cat
1965The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
1965Flowering Maidens as Matsui
1964Black Thief
1964Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unosuke
1964The Flower and the Sword
1964The Glamorous Ghost as Kenji Yamakoshi
1964Giant Rumble
1964Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office as Kansuke
1964Black Weapon
1964Main Street in the Underworld
1964Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Honda Shinpachi
1964Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1964Red Handkerchief
1963The Revenge and the Death as Kawazu
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Kumagai
1963The Third Shadow Warrior
1963Youth of the Beast as Sôichi Ozawa
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Inspector Kumagaya
1962Namari o buchikome
1962Ai to shi no katami
1962Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962Bōkyō no umi
1962Jūdan no arashi
1962Last Round
1962Red Bud and White Flower
1962Song of a Traveller
1962Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Kozo Haraguchi
1961Wind and waves of the South as Kihei
1961Crimson pistol belt
1961Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961The Plateau Man
1961Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961Whistling in the Darkness
1961Quick Draw Joe as Mishima
1961でかんしょ風来坊
1961Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Katsumata
1961Tokyo Knights as Mishima
1961The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Kirihara Gôchô
1961Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
1961The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1960The Rambler Rides Again
1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960Wakai toppū
1960The Lost Diamond
1960Return of the Vagabond
1960Intimidation as Kyosuke Takita
1960The Poem of the Blue Star
1960The Law's Bloody Wounds
1959The Age of Our Own
1959The Rambling Guitarist as Akitsu
1959The Wild Reporter as Funakoshi
1959Ningyō no uta
1959Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959Merciless Bullet as Sawamura
1959Kawaii Onna
1959The Echo of Love
1959A Man Explodes
1959We Live Today
1959The Praying Man as Shinichiro Kuraki
1959Get Over Her
1959Friendship of Jazz
1958Voice Without a Shadow as Kawai
1958Wolves of the Night
1958The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958That Wonderful Guy
1958Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1958Night Drum
1958Forever, My Love as Tachio Kinumaki
1957Man Who Causes a Storm as Toru Sakyo, the critic
1957The Awakening
1957The Barefoot Girl
1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Denbei
1957This Day's Life
1957Madam
1957Eight Hours of Terror as Kosaku Mori
1956Lunar Eclipse
1956Hungry Soul, Part II as Reiji Ajioka
1956Okinawa no Tami
1956Hungry Soul as Reiji Ajioka
1956Summer Storm as Kido
1956Tonari no yome
1956Gyakukōsen
1956Ryûri no kishi
1956Phoenix
1956Called to the Stand
1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Sayama
1955A Hole of My Own Making
1955Stray Sheep as Haraguchi, the painter
1955Till We Meet Again as Akira Mimura
1955Floating Clouds
1954Wakai hito-tachi
1954Student Double Suicide
1954Cape Ashizuri
1954The Garden of Women as Kihei Hirato
1954Itsuko to sono haha as Tokuji Funabashi
1954Sound of the Mountain
1953Red-Light Bases as Sugio Kawanabe
1953At the End of the Clouds
1952Vacuum Zone
1952Ikiru as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
1952Violence
1952Vendetta of a Samurai
1950The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Kashima