Nobuo Kaneko

Mar 27, 1923 - Jan 20, 1995 (71 years old) in Taito, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Shōgun

Ishido

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Ikiru

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

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Shadow Warriors

Sakai Tadakiyo

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Kusa Moeru

Taira no Kiyomori

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The Fall of Ako Castle

Kira

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The Return of Godzilla

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

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Never Give Up

Head of Mizoguchi City

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Kirihara Gôchô

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Godzilla 1985

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

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Love Eternal

Aoki

Credits

Escape Man Future

★ NR
Father and Son Hawk 1994

★ NR
Kokkai e ikô! 1993

★ NR
The Great Shogunate Battle 1991

★ 6
Check 1991

Tennoji

★ NR
The Man Who Became The Don 1991

★ NR
Four Days of Snow and Blood 1989

Yoshiyuki Kawashima

★ 6.9
Surgical Designs in Flames 1986

★ NR
Godzilla 1985 1985

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

★ 6.8
The Return of Godzilla 1984

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

★ 7.2
Karate Cop 2 1983

★ 5.5
The Imperial Navy 1981

Chuichi Nagumo

★ 6.3
The Detective Journey 1980

★ NR
Shōgun 1980

Ishido

★ 7.7
Nurse's Husband 1980

★ NR
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga 1980

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 6.7
Shadow Warriors 1980

Sakai Tadakiyo

★ 8
Faraway Tomorrow 1979

★ 2
The Shogun Assassins 1979

Hayashi Razan

★ 5
Troubleman Laughs and Kills 1979

Actor

★ NR
The Inferno 1979

Emma Daio

★ 6.6
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1979

Kokichi Asakura

★ 7
Down with The Big Boss 1979

★ NR
Devil's Flute 1979

★ 6.2
Kusa Moeru 1979

Taira no Kiyomori

★ 7
The Fall of Ako Castle 1978

Kira

★ 6.6
Never Give Up 1978

Head of Mizoguchi City

★ 5.7
Dynamite Don-Don 1978

Denjiro Hasimoto

★ 7
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion 1978

Hideyoshi Hirayama

★ 7
Shogun's Samurai 1978

★ 7
Karate Wars 1978

★ NR
Japanese Godfather: Ambition 1977

Hirano

★ 8.8
Japan's Don 1977

Shoji Taguchi

★ 7.5
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat 1976

★ NR
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion 1976

★ 5.4
Yakuza Graveyard 1976

Chief Akama

★ 6.7
Cobra 2 1976

Tajima

★ NR
Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!! 1975

★ NR
That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Everyone! 1975

★ NR
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations 1975

★ NR
Shimane Prison Riot 1975

Torao Yoshinari

★ 5
The Murder Corps 1975

★ NR
Cops vs. Thugs 1975

Masaichi Tomoyasu

★ 6.3
Unified Shadows 1975

★ NR
The Viper Brothers and the Young General 1975

★ NR
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 1974

★ 5.6
The Rapacious Jailbreaker 1974

Warden

★ 6.5
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game 1974

★ 6.7
Father of the Kamikaze 1974

★ NR
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode 1974

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics 1974

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 7
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage 1973

Kakutarô Shinohara

★ 5.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War 1973

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 7.3
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle 1973

Senzo Ogata

★ NR
Dangerous Trade in Kobe 1973

★ 6.5
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School 1973

Hadano

★ 6.2
The Hard Core Criminal 1973

★ 7.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 1973

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 7.4
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom 1973

Shigeru Satô - The President of The School

★ 6.1
Semi-Document: Eros No Joô 1973

Narrator

★ NR
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban 1973

Visitor of the Shoe Polishing

★ 5.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1973

Yoshio Yamamori

★ 7.4
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom 1972

★ 6.2
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm 1972

★ NR
The Pledge 1972

★ 5
Turtle Geisha 1972

★ 4.5
Shōwa Gokudōshi 1972

★ NR
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang 1972

Chief of Police

★ 6
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor 1971

★ NR
Story of Japanese Bad Men 1971

★ NR
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler 1971

★ 10
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess 1971

Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner

★ 6.3
Thugs of Shinjuku 1970

★ NR
The Experience 1970

★ NR
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams 1970

★ 6.8
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies 1970

★ NR
King of the Night Life 1970

★ NR
Postwar Secrets 1970

★ 10
アッと驚く為五郎 1970

★ NR
Duel at Fort Ezo 1970

★ 5.4
A Yakuza Goes Home 1970

★ NR
Woman Boss 1970

★ NR
The Bad Guy Blues 1969

★ NR
The Fatal Raid 1969

★ NR
Samurai Geisha 1969

Osuga

★ 6
The Biggest Gamble 1969

★ 7
The Yakuza Awaits 1969

★ NR
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 1968

★ 6
Living Skeleton 1968

Suetsugu

★ 5.6
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time 1968

★ NR
Rogue 1968

Suyama

★ NR
Enlisted Yakuza 1968

★ 5
Red Peony Gambler 1968

★ 7.2
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation 1968

★ NR
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell 1968

Tokuyasu

★ 5.8
Downtown Blues 1968

★ NR
The Worship of the Flesh 1968

Denbei

★ NR
Hot Springs Geisha 1968

Shinagawa

★ 2.3
Curse of the Blood 1968

Sojun

★ 6.7
Diamonds of the Andes 1968

★ NR
Scoundrel 1968

★ 6
Big Time Gambling Boss 1968

Tasaburô Senba

★ 7.2
Human Torpedoes 1968

★ NR
The Last Loyalty Offering 1967

★ NR
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters 1967

★ NR
Killer of Seven 1967

★ NR
Gambler's World 1967

Ushimatsu Fujii

★ NR
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps 1967

Shurinosuke Asahina

★ 6
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4 1967

★ 6.2
Organized Violence II 1967

Head of Department

★ 6
Portrait of Chieko 1967

Sawada

★ NR
Dissolution Rites 1967

Itagaki

★ 6
Under the Stars of Singapore 1967

★ NR
Prison Release Loyalty Offering 1966

★ NR
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love 1966

★ NR
A Drop of Grease 1966

★ NR
Rub Out the Past 1966

★ 6
The Harbor of No Return 1966

★ NR
Seven Gamblers 1966

★ 6
Love Eternal 1966

Aoki

★ NR
Dianas of the Campus 1966

★ NR
Love and Desire in the Night Mist 1966

★ NR
Warm Current 1966

★ NR
Convicted Woman 1966

★ NR
Yakuza Vassal 1966

★ NR
The Magic Serpent 1966

Dôjin Hiki

★ 6.2
Color 1965

★ NR
Chivalrous Life 1965

★ NR
The Black Cat 1965

★ NR
Nageta daisu ga ashita o yobu 1965

★ NR
Flowering Maidens 1965

Matsui

★ NR
Black Thief 1964

★ 7.5
Traveling Alone with a Guitar 1964

★ NR
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight 1964

Unosuke

★ 6.9
The Flower and the Sword 1964

★ NR
The Glamorous Ghost 1964

Kenji Yamakoshi

★ 6
Giant Rumble 1964

★ 6
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office 1964

Kansuke

★ 8.5
Black Weapon 1964

★ NR
Main Street in the Underworld 1964

★ 6
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws 1964

Honda Shinpachi

★ NR
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut 1964

★ 6
Red Handkerchief 1964

★ 7
The Revenge and the Death 1963

Kawazu

★ NR
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women 1963

Kumagai

★ NR
The Third Shadow Warrior 1963

★ 7.1
Youth of the Beast 1963

Sôichi Ozawa

★ 7
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! 1963

Inspector Kumagaya

★ 6.3
Namari o buchikome 1962

★ NR
Ai to shi no katami 1962

★ NR
Bōkyō no umi 1962

★ NR
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa 1962

★ NR
Jūdan no arashi 1962

★ NR
Moeru minamijūjisei 1962

★ NR
Red Bud and White Flower 1962

★ NR
Song of a Traveller 1962

★ NR
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha 1962

★ NR
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab 1961

Kozo Haraguchi

★ NR
Wind and waves of the South 1961

Kihei

★ NR
Crimson pistol belt 1961

★ NR
Standing Towards the Great Forest 1961

★ NR
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass 1961

★ 5.7
The Plateau Man 1961

★ NR
Joe of Aces: Give and Take 1961

★ NR
Whistling in the Darkness 1961

★ NR
Quick Draw Joe 1961

Mishima

★ NR
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living 1961

Katsumata

★ NR
Tokyo Knights 1961

Mishima

★ 6.8
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961

Kirihara Gôchô

★ 8.4
Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru 1961

★ NR
The Rambler under the Southern Cross 1961

★ NR
The Rambler Rides Again 1960

★ NR
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm 1960

★ NR
Wakai toppū 1960

★ NR
The Lost Diamond 1960

★ NR
Return of the Vagabond 1960

★ 5
Intimidation 1960

Kyosuke Takita

★ 7
The Poem of the Blue Star 1960

★ NR
The Law's Bloody Wounds 1960

★ NR
The Age of Our Own 1959

★ NR
The Rambling Guitarist 1959

Akitsu

★ 6.2
The Wild Reporter 1959

Funakoshi

★ NR
Ningyō no uta 1959

★ NR
Farewell to Southern Tosa 1959

★ NR
Merciless Bullet 1959

Sawamura

★ NR
Kawaii Onna 1959

★ NR
The Echo of Love 1959

★ NR
A Man Explodes 1959

★ NR
We Live Today 1959

★ NR
The Praying Man 1959

Shinichiro Kuraki

★ NR
Get Over The Woman 1959

★ NR
Friendship of Jazz 1959

★ NR
Voice Without a Shadow 1958

Kawai

★ 6.4
Wolves of the Night 1958

★ NR
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon 1958

★ NR
That Wonderful Guy 1958

★ NR
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku 1958

★ NR
Night Drum 1958

★ 6.1
Forever, My Love 1958

Tachio Kinumaki

★ NR
Man Who Causes a Storm 1957

Toru Sakyo, the critic

★ 6.7
The Awakening 1957

★ NR
The Barefoot Girl 1957

★ NR
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era 1957

Denbei

★ 7.2
This Day's Life 1957

★ NR
Madam 1957

★ NR
Eight Hours of Terror 1957

Kosaku Mori

★ 7.3
Lunar Eclipse 1956

★ NR
Hungry Soul, Part II 1956

Reiji Ajioka

★ 6.4
Okinawa no Tami 1956

★ NR
Hungry Soul 1956

Reiji Ajioka

★ 6
Summer Storm 1956

Kido

★ 6
Tonari no yome 1956

★ NR
Gyakukōsen 1956

★ NR
Ryûri no kishi 1956

★ NR
Phoenix 1956

★ 6
Called to the Stand 1956

★ NR
Policeman's Diary, Part 2 1955

★ 6
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree 1955

Sayama

★ NR
A Hole of My Own Making 1955

★ 6
Stray Sheep 1955

Haraguchi, the painter

★ NR
Till We Meet Again 1955

Akira Mimura

★ 6.2
Floating Clouds 1955

★ 7.7
Wakai hito-tachi 1954

★ NR
Student Double Suicide 1954

★ NR
Cape Ashizuri 1954

★ NR
The Garden of Women 1954

Kihei Hirato

★ 6.6
Itsuko to sono haha 1954

Tokuji Funabashi

★ NR
Sound of the Mountain 1954

★ 7.4
Red-Light Bases 1953

Sugio Kawanabe

★ NR
At the End of the Clouds 1953

★ NR
Vacuum Zone 1952

★ 7
Ikiru 1952

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

★ 8.3
Violence 1952

★ NR
Vendetta of a Samurai 1952

★ 6.8
The Rainbow-Colored Flower 1950

Kashima

★ 1