Nobuo Kaneko
Acting
Born March 27, 1923, 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.
Filmography
- Father and Son Hawk
- 1993Kokkai e ikô!
- 1991Check — Tennoji
- 1991The Great Shogunate Battle
- 1991The Man Who Became The Don
- 1989Four Days of Snow and Blood — Yoshiyuki Kawashima
- 1986Surgical Designs in Flames
- 1985Godzilla 1985 — Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- 1984The Return of Godzilla — Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- 1983Karate Cop 2
- 1981The Imperial Navy — Chuichi Nagumo
- 1980Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1980Nurse's Husband
- Shadow Warriors — Sakai Tadakiyo
- Shōgun — Ishido
- 1980The Detective Journey
- 1979Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity — Kokichi Asakura
- 1979Devil's Flute
- 1979Down with The Big Boss
- 1979Faraway Tomorrow
- Kusa Moeru — Taira no Kiyomori
- 1979The Inferno — Emma Daio
- 1979The Shogun Assassins — Hayashi Razan
- 1979Troubleman Laughs and Kills — Actor
- 1978Dynamite Don-Don — Denjiro Hasimoto
- 1978Japanese Godfather: Conclusion — Hideyoshi Hirayama
- 1978Karate Wars
- 1978Never Give Up — Head of Mizoguchi City
- 1978Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
- 1978The Fall of Ako Castle — Kira
- 1977Japan's Don — Shoji Taguchi
- 1977Japanese Godfather: Ambition — Hirano
- 1976Cobra 2 — Tajima
- 1976New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
- 1976Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
- 1976Yakuza Graveyard — Chief Akama
- 1975300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
- 1975Cops vs. Thugs — Masaichi Tomoyasu
- 1975Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- 1975Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
- 1975Shimane Prison Riot — Torao Yoshinari
- 1975The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- Unified Shadows
- 1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1974Father of the Kamikaze
- 1974Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
- 1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1974The Rapacious Jailbreaker — Yoshio Imazu - Warden
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War — Yoshio Yamamori
- 1973Dangerous Trade in Kobe
- 1973Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban — Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
- 1973Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School — Hadano
- 1973Queen of Eros — Narrator
- 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates — Kakutarô Shinohara
- 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom — Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
- 1973The Hard Core Criminal
- 1973Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle — Senzo Ogata
- 1972New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
- 1972Shōwa Gokudōshi
- 1972Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
- 1972The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang — Chief of Police
- 1972The Pledge
- 1972Turtle Geisha
- 1971Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- 1971Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess — Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
- 1971Story of Japanese Bad Men
- 1971The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
- 1970A Yakuza Goes Home
- 1970Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
- 1970Duel at Fort Ezo
- 1970King of the Night Life
- 1970Postwar Secrets
- 1970The Experience
- 1970The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
- 1970Thugs of Shinjuku
- 1970Woman Boss
- 1970アッと驚く為五郎
- 1969Samurai Geisha — Osuga
- 1969The Bad Guy Blues
- 1969The Biggest Gamble
- 1969The Fatal Raid
- 1969The Yakuza Awaits
- 1968Big Time Gambling Boss — Tasaburô Senba
- 1968Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
- 1968Curse of the Blood — Sojun
- 1968Diamonds of the Andes
- 1968Downtown Blues
- 1968Enlisted Yakuza
- 1968Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell — Tokuyasu
- 1968Hot Springs Geisha — Shinagawa
- 1968Human Torpedoes
- 1968Living Skeleton — Suetsugu
- 1968New Prison Walls of Abashiri
- 1968Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
- 1968Red Peony Gambler
- 1968Rogue — Suyama
- 1968Scoundrel
- 1968The Worship of the Flesh — Denbei
- 1967Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
- 1967Dissolution Rites — Itagaki
- 1967Escape Man
- 1967Gambler's World — Ushimatsu Fujii
- 1967Killer of Seven
- 1967Organized Violence II — Head of Department
- 1967Portrait of Chieko — Sawada, Yamazaki
- 1967Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps — Shurinosuke Asahina
- 1967The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
- 1967The Last Loyalty Offering
- 1967Under the Stars of Singapore
- 1966A Drop of Grease
- 1966Convicted Woman
- 1966Dianas of the Campus
- 1966Hi No Taiko
- 1966Love Eternal — Aoki
- 1966Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- 1966New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
- 1966Prison Release Loyalty Offering
- 1966Rub Out the Past
- 1966Seven Gamblers
- 1966The Harbor of No Return
- 1966The Magic Serpent — Dôjin Hiki
- 1966Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
- 1966Warm Current
- 1966Yakuza Vassal
- 1965Chivalrous Life
- 1965Color
- 1965Expelled from the Kanto Mob
- 1965Flowering Maidens — Matsui
- 1965The Black Cat
- 1965The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
- 1964Black Thief
- 1964Black Weapon
- 1964Call My Black Dice — Sakakibara (Boss of the Tokyo-based Sakakibara gang)
- 1964Edo Crime Book: Black Claws — Honda Shinpachi
- 1964Fight, Zatoichi, Fight — Unosuke
- 1964Giant Rumble
- 1964Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office — Kansuke
- 1964Main Street in the Underworld
- 1964Red Handkerchief
- 1964The Flower and the Sword
- 1964The Glamorous Ghost — Kenji Yamakoshi
- 1964Traveling Alone with a Guitar
- 1964Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
- 1963Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women — Kumagai
- 1963Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! — Inspector Kumagaya
- 1963The Revenge and the Death — Kawazu
- 1963The Third Shadow Warrior
- 1963Youth of the Beast — Sôichi Ozawa
- 1962Ai to shi no katami
- 1962Bōkyō no umi
- 1962Jūdan no arashi
- 1962Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
- 1962Last Round
- 1962Red Bud and White Flower
- 1962Song of a Traveller
- 1962Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
- 1962Traces of Lead
- 1961An Angel is Chasing Me
- 1961Crimson Pistol
- 1961Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living — Katsumata
- 1961Joe of Aces: Give and Take
- 1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab — Kozo Haraguchi
- 1961Quick Draw Joe — Mishima
- 1961Standing Towards the Great Forest
- 1961The Famous Wanderer
- 1961The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer — Kirihara Gôchô
- 1961The Plateau Man
- 1961The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- 1961The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass — Ken
- 1961Tokyo Knights — Mishima
- 1961Whistling in the Darkness
- 1961Wind and waves of the South — Kihei
- 1960Intimidation — Kyosuke Takita
- 1960Return of the Vagabond
- 1960The Law's Bloody Wounds
- 1960The Lost Diamond
- 1960The Rambler Rides Again
- 1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- 1960Wakai toppū
- 1960Yakuza Song
- 1959A Man Explodes
- 1959Farewell to Southern Tosa
- 1959Friendship of Jazz
- 1959Get Over Her — Yoshino
- 1959Kawaii Onna
- 1959Merciless Bullet — Sawamura
- 1959Ningyō no uta
- 1959The Age of Our Own
- 1959The Echo of Love
- 1959The Praying Man — Shinichiro Kuraki
- 1959The Rambling Guitarist — Akitsu
- 1959The Wild Reporter — Funakoshi
- 1959We Live Today
- 1958Forever, My Love — Tachio Kinumaki
- 1958Night Drum
- 1958That Wonderful Guy
- 1958The Man Who Rode the Typhoon — Yuzo Hayata
- 1958Tomorrow is Another Day
- 1958Unga — Hitoshi Itami
- 1958Voice Without a Shadow — Kawai
- 1958Wolves of the Night
- 1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era — Denbei
- 1957Eight Hours of Terror — Kosaku Mori
- 1957Madam
- 1957Man Who Causes a Storm — Toru Sakyo, the critic
- 1957The Awakening
- 1957The Barefoot Girl
- 1957This Day's Life
- 1957危険な関係
- 1956Called to the Stand — Prosecutor
- 1956Gyakukōsen
- 1956Hungry Soul — Reiji Ajioka
- 1956Hungry Soul, Part II — Reiji Ajioka
- 1956Lunar Eclipse
- 1956Okinawa no Tami
- 1956Phoenix — Fuji director
- 1956Summer Storm — Kido
- 1956Tonari no yome
- 1956Wandering Shore
- 1955A Hole of My Own Making
- 1955Floating Clouds
- 1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1955So Deep in My Heart
- 1955Stray Sheep — Haraguchi, the painter
- 1955Till We Meet Again — Akira Mimura
- 1955Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree — Sayama
- 1955Women of Ginza
- 1954Cape Ashizuri
- 1954Itsuko to sono haha — Tokuji Funabashi
- 1954Sound of the Mountain
- 1954Student Double Suicide
- 1954The Garden of Women — Kihei Hirato
- 1954Wakai hito-tachi
- 1953At the End of the Clouds
- 1953The Red Light Military Base — Sugio Kawanabe
- 1953Waseda University — Hotani Nitarō
- 1952Ikiru — Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- 1952Vacuum Zone — Sergeant Kaneko
- 1952Vendetta of a Samurai
- 1952Violence
- 1951Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
- 1950The Rainbow-Colored Flower — Kashima