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.

Known For

Shōgun

Kusa Moeru

Ikiru

Shadow Warriors

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Father and Son Hawk

Unified Shadows

The Return of Godzilla

All Movies (236)

• Kokkai e ikô!1993
• The Great Shogunate Battle1991
• Check1991 · as Tennoji
• The Man Who Became The Don1991
• Four Days of Snow and Blood1989 · as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
• Surgical Designs in Flames1986
• Godzilla 19851985 · as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
• The Return of Godzilla1984 · as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
• Karate Cop 21983
• The Imperial Navy1981 · as Chuichi Nagumo
• The Detective Journey1980
• Nurse's Husband1980
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga1980 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Faraway Tomorrow1979
• The Shogun Assassins1979 · as Hayashi Razan
• Troubleman Laughs and Kills1979 · as Actor
• The Inferno1979 · as Emma Daio
• Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity1979 · as Kokichi Asakura
• Down with The Big Boss1979
• Devil's Flute1979
• The Fall of Ako Castle1978 · as Kira
• Never Give Up1978 · as Head of Mizoguchi City
• Dynamite Don-Don1978 · as Denjiro Hasimoto
• Japanese Godfather: Conclusion1978 · as Hideyoshi Hirayama
• Shogun's Samurai1978
• Karate Wars1978
• Japanese Godfather: Ambition1977 · as Hirano
• Japan's Don1977 · as Shoji Taguchi
• Truck Rascals in Fever Heat1976
• New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion1976
• Yakuza Graveyard1976 · as Chief Akama
• Cobra 21976 · as Tajima
• Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!1975
• 300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations1975
• Shimane Prison Riot1975 · as Torao Yoshinari
• Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps1975
• Cops vs. Thugs1975 · as Masaichi Tomoyasu
• The Viper Brothers and the Young General1975
• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 11974
• The Rapacious Jailbreaker1974 · as Yoshio Imazu - Warden
• Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game1974
• Father of the Kamikaze1974
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode1974 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics1974 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates1973 · as Kakutarô Shinohara
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War1973 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle1973 · as Senzo Ogata
• Dangerous Trade in Kobe1973
• Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School1973 · as Hadano
• The Hard Core Criminal1973
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima1973 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom1973 · as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
• Queen of Eros1973 · as Narrator
• Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban1973 · as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity1973 · as Yoshio Yamamori
• Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom1972
• New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm1972
• The Pledge1972
• Turtle Geisha1972
• Shōwa Gokudōshi1972
• The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang1972 · as Chief of Police
• The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor1971
• Story of Japanese Bad Men1971
• Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler1971
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess1971 · as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
• Thugs of Shinjuku1970
• The Experience1970
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams1970
• The Kingpin of Fair Ladies1970
• King of the Night Life1970
• Postwar Secrets1970
• アッと驚く為五郎1970
• Duel at Fort Ezo1970
• A Yakuza Goes Home1970
• Woman Boss1970
• The Bad Guy Blues1969
• The Fatal Raid1969
• Samurai Geisha1969 · as Osuga
• The Biggest Gamble1969
• The Yakuza Awaits1969
• New Prison Walls of Abashiri1968
• Living Skeleton1968 · as Suetsugu
• Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time1968
• Rogue1968 · as Suyama
• Enlisted Yakuza1968
• Red Peony Gambler1968
• Brothers'Code - The Back Relation1968
• Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell1968 · as Tokuyasu
• Downtown Blues1968
• The Worship of the Flesh1968 · as Denbei
• Hot Springs Geisha1968 · as Shinagawa
• Curse of the Blood1968 · as Sojun
• Diamonds of the Andes1968
• Scoundrel1968
• Big Time Gambling Boss1968 · as Tasaburô Senba
• Human Torpedoes1968
• The Last Loyalty Offering1967
• Escape Man1967
• The Domain: Where The Blade Enters1967
• Killer of Seven1967
• Gambler's World1967 · as Ushimatsu Fujii
• Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps1967 · as Shurinosuke Asahina
• Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 41967
• Organized Violence II1967 · as Head of Department
• Portrait of Chieko1967 · as Sawada
• Portrait of Chieko1967 · as Yamazaki
• Dissolution Rites1967 · as Itagaki
• Under the Stars of Singapore1967
• Prison Release Loyalty Offering1966
• Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love1966
• A Drop of Grease1966
• Rub Out the Past1966
• The Harbor of No Return1966
• Seven Gamblers1966
• Love Eternal1966 · as Aoki
• Dianas of the Campus1966
• Love and Desire in the Night Mist1966
• Warm Current1966
• Convicted Woman1966
• Yakuza Vassal1966
• The Magic Serpent1966 · as Dôjin Hiki
• Expelled from the Kanto Mob1965
• Color1965
• Chivalrous Life1965
• The Black Cat1965
• The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow1965
• Flowering Maidens1965 · as Matsui
• Black Thief1964
• Traveling Alone with a Guitar1964
• Fight, Zatoichi, Fight1964 · as Unosuke
• The Flower and the Sword1964
• Call My Black Dice1964
• The Glamorous Ghost1964 · as Kenji Yamakoshi
• Giant Rumble1964
• Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office1964 · as Kansuke
• Black Weapon1964
• Main Street in the Underworld1964
• Edo Crime Book: Black Claws1964 · as Honda Shinpachi
• Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut1964
• Red Handkerchief1964
• The Revenge and the Death1963 · as Kawazu
• Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women1963 · as Kumagai
• The Third Shadow Warrior1963
• Youth of the Beast1963 · as Sôichi Ozawa
• Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!1963 · as Inspector Kumagaya
• Traces of Lead1962
• Ai to shi no katami1962
• Bōkyō no umi1962
• Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa1962
• Jūdan no arashi1962
• Last Round1962
• Red Bud and White Flower1962
• Song of a Traveller1962
• Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha1962
• Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab1961 · as Kozo Haraguchi
• Wind and waves of the South1961 · as Kihei
• Crimson Pistol1961
• Standing Towards the Great Forest1961
• The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass1961 · as Ken
• The Plateau Man1961
• Joe of Aces: Give and Take1961
• Whistling in the Darkness1961
• Quick Draw Joe1961 · as Mishima
• でかんしょ風来坊1961
• Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living1961 · as Katsumata
• Tokyo Knights1961 · as Mishima
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer1961 · as Kirihara Gôchô
• An Angel is Chasing Me1961
• The Rambler under the Southern Cross1961
• The Rambler Rides Again1960
• The Rambler on a Pearl Farm1960
• Wakai toppū1960
• The Lost Diamond1960
• Return of the Vagabond1960
• Intimidation1960 · as Kyosuke Takita
• Yakuza Song1960
• The Law's Bloody Wounds1960
• The Age of Our Own1959
• The Rambling Guitarist1959 · as Akitsu
• The Wild Reporter1959 · as Funakoshi
• Ningyō no uta1959
• Farewell to Southern Tosa1959
• Merciless Bullet1959 · as Sawamura
• Kawaii Onna1959
• The Echo of Love1959
• A Man Explodes1959
• We Live Today1959
• The Praying Man1959 · as Shinichiro Kuraki
• Get Over Her1959 · as Yoshino
• Friendship of Jazz1959
• Voice Without a Shadow1958 · as Kawai
• Wolves of the Night1958
• The Man Who Rode the Typhoon1958
• Unga1958 · as Hitoshi Itami
• That Wonderful Guy1958
• Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku1958
• Night Drum1958
• Forever, My Love1958 · as Tachio Kinumaki
• Man Who Causes a Storm1957 · as Toru Sakyo, the critic
• The Awakening1957
• The Barefoot Girl1957
• A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era1957 · as Denbei
• This Day's Life1957
• Madam1957
• Eight Hours of Terror1957 · as Kosaku Mori
• Lunar Eclipse1956
• Hungry Soul, Part II1956 · as Reiji Ajioka
• Okinawa no Tami1956
• Hungry Soul1956 · as Reiji Ajioka
• Summer Storm1956 · as Kido
• Tonari no yome1956
• Gyakukōsen1956
• Ryûri no kishi1956
• Phoenix1956
• Called to the Stand1956
• Policeman's Diary, Part 21955
• So Deep in My Heart1955
• Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree1955 · as Sayama
• A Hole of My Own Making1955
• Stray Sheep1955 · as Haraguchi, the painter
• Till We Meet Again1955 · as Akira Mimura
• Floating Clouds1955
• Wakai hito-tachi1954
• Student Double Suicide1954
• Cape Ashizuri1954
• The Garden of Women1954 · as Kihei Hirato
• Itsuko to sono haha1954 · as Tokuji Funabashi
• Sound of the Mountain1954
• The Red Light Military Base1953 · as Sugio Kawanabe
• Waseda University1953 · as Hotani Nitarō
• At the End of the Clouds1953
• Vacuum Zone1952
• Ikiru1952 · as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
• Violence1952
• Vendetta of a Samurai1952
• The Rainbow-Colored Flower1950 · as Kashima

All TV Shows (5)

• Father and Son Hawk1994
• Shōgun1980 · as Ishido
• Shadow Warriors1980 · as Sakai Tadakiyo
• Kusa Moeru1979 · as Taira no Kiyomori
• Unified Shadows1975