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.

Filmography

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