Name
Nobuo Kaneko
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-03-27
Deathday
1995-01-20 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Taito, Tokyo, Japan
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
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
(233 Votes)
8.4
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manch...
Relase Date : 28 Jan, 1961
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The Return of Godzilla
(357 Votes)
7.2
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other...
Relase Date : 15 Dec, 1984
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
(11 Votes)
7.3
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
Relase Date : 17 Jun, 1989
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
(128 Votes)
7.3
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselve...
Relase Date : 13 Jan, 1973
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Floating Clouds
(110 Votes)
7.7
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a...
Relase Date : 15 Jan, 1955
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Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
(49 Votes)
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Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by ...
Relase Date : 21 Jan, 1978
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Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka final...
Relase Date : 28 Apr, 1973
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Godzilla 1985
(204 Votes)
6.8
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-...
Relase Date : 23 Aug, 1985
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Movies
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- 1952 Ikiru as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- 1962 Red Bud and White Flower
- 1978 Never Give Up as Head of Mizoguchi City
- 1956 Phoenix as Fuji director
- 1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Kirihara Gôchô
- 1966 Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
- 1956 Wandering Shore
- 1968 Rogue as Suyama
- 1977 Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Hirano
- 1962 Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
- 1966 Warm Current
- 1954 Sound of the Mountain
- 1985 Godzilla 1985 as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- 1961 Joe of Aces: Give and Take
- 1964 Main Street in the Underworld
- 1966 The Magic Serpent as Dôjin Hiki
- 1964 Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unosuke
- 1974 Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
- 1973 Queen of Eros as Narrator
- 1960 Intimidation as Kyosuke Takita
- 1963 Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Inspector Kumagaya
- 1970 Woman Boss
- 1957 A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Denbei
- 1968 Living Skeleton as Suetsugu
- 1973 Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Hadano
- 1954 Cape Ashizuri
- 1973 Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates as Kakutarô Shinohara
- 1968 Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
- 1961 Standing Towards the Great Forest
- 1961 The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass as Ken
- 1974 The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Yoshio Imazu - Warden
- 1968 The Worship of the Flesh as Denbei
- 1957 Man Who Causes a Storm as Toru Sakyo, the critic
- 1970 The Experience
- 1954 The Garden of Women as Kihei Hirato
- 1959 The Wild Reporter as Funakoshi
- 1975 Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
- 1979 The Inferno as Emma Daio
- 1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1958 Tomorrow is Another Day
- 1962 Last Round
- 1973 Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
- 1965 Flowering Maidens as Matsui
- 1968 Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
- 1956 Summer Storm as Kido
- 1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1959 A Man Explodes
- 1969 The Yakuza Awaits
- 1962 Jūdan no arashi
- 1955 Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Sayama
- 1968 Enlisted Yakuza
- 1962 Ai to shi no katami
- 1966 The Harbor of No Return
- 1961 Whistling in the Darkness
- 1964 Black Weapon
- 1993 Kokkai e ikô!
- 1976 Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
- 1961 Crimson Pistol
- 1962 Bōkyō no umi
- 1962 Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
- 1981 The Imperial Navy as Chuichi Nagumo
- 1971 Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
- 1962 Song of a Traveller
- 1958 Wolves of the Night
- 1962 Traces of Lead
- 1971 Story of Japanese Bad Men
- 1960 Return of the Vagabond
- 1965 Chivalrous Life
- 1973 Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
- 1957 This Day's Life
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1960 The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- 1964 Red Handkerchief
- 1958 Voice Without a Shadow as Kawai
- 1957 Eight Hours of Terror as Kosaku Mori
- 1959 The Age of Our Own
- 1959 The Rambling Guitarist as Akitsu
- 1968 Curse of the Blood as Sojun
- 1968 Human Torpedoes
- 1976 Cobra 2 as Tajima
- 1952 Vacuum Zone as Sergeant Kaneko
- 1980 Nurse's Husband
- 1958 Night Drum
- 1964 The Glamorous Ghost as Kenji Yamakoshi
- 1950 The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Kashima
- 1955 A Hole of My Own Making
- 1956 Called to the Stand as Prosecutor
- 1957 Madam
- 1956 Tonari no yome
- 1964 Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Honda Shinpachi
- 1978 Dynamite Don-Don as Denjiro Hasimoto
- 1980 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1978 Karate Wars
- 1984 The Return of Godzilla as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- 1955 Stray Sheep as Haraguchi, the painter
- 1970 The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
- 1968 New Prison Walls of Abashiri
- 1968 Downtown Blues
- 1956 Lunar Eclipse
- 1957 The Barefoot Girl
- 1964 Black Thief
- 1969 The Bad Guy Blues
- 1970 King of the Night Life
- 1960 Yakuza Song
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Yoshio Yamamori
- 1974 Father of the Kamikaze
- 1979 Devil's Flute
- 1961 Tokyo Knights as Mishima
- 1969 Samurai Geisha as Osuga
- 1968 Red Peony Gambler
- 1967 Organized Violence II as Head of Department
- 1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
- 1963 The Third Shadow Warrior
- 1972 The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang as Chief of Police
- 1976 Yakuza Graveyard as Chief Akama
- 1967 Dissolution Rites as Itagaki
- 1975 300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
- 1952 Vendetta of a Samurai
- 1967 Portrait of Chieko as Sawada
- 1978 Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
- 1978 The Fall of Ako Castle as Kira
- 1961 Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Kozo Haraguchi
- 1979 Down with The Big Boss
- 1967 Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
- 1975 Shimane Prison Riot as Torao Yoshinari
- 1969 The Biggest Gamble
- 1966 Rub Out the Past
- 1965 The Black Cat
- 1983 Karate Cop 2
- 1961 The Plateau Man
- 1968 Hot Springs Geisha as Shinagawa
- 1973 Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle as Senzo Ogata
- 1979 The Shogun Assassins as Hayashi Razan
- 1966 Convicted Woman
- 1967 Gambler's World as Ushimatsu Fujii
- 1973 The Hard Core Criminal
- 1972 Turtle Geisha
- 1966 Seven Gamblers
- 1979 Faraway Tomorrow
- 1967 Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Shurinosuke Asahina
- 1961 Quick Draw Joe as Mishima
- 1963 The Revenge and the Death as Kawazu
- 1958 That Wonderful Guy
- 1955 Till We Meet Again as Akira Mimura
- 1970 Thugs of Shinjuku
- 1968 Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell as Tokuyasu
- 1970 Duel at Fort Ezo
- 1979 Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kokichi Asakura
- 1961 The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- 1959 The Praying Man as Shinichiro Kuraki
- 1958 Forever, My Love as Tachio Kinumaki
- 1960 The Lost Diamond
- 1970 Postwar Secrets
- 1972 The Pledge
- 1968 Big Time Gambling Boss as Tasaburô Senba
- 1966 Love Eternal as Aoki
- 1971 Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- 1959 Farewell to Southern Tosa
- 1964 The Flower and the Sword
- 1956 Hungry Soul as Reiji Ajioka
- 1956 Okinawa no Tami
- 1964 Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
- 1972 Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
- 1978 Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Hideyoshi Hirayama
- 1975 Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
- 1956 Hungry Soul, Part II as Reiji Ajioka
- 1964 Giant Rumble
- 1963 Youth of the Beast as Sôichi Ozawa
- 1972 New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
- 1975 Cops vs. Thugs as Masaichi Tomoyasu
- 1976 New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
- 1955 Floating Clouds
- 1986 Surgical Designs in Flames
- 1970 Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
- 1991 Check as Tennoji
- 1959 Friendship of Jazz
- 1961 Wind and waves of the South as Kihei
- 1953 The Red Light Military Base as Sugio Kawanabe
- 1954 Itsuko to sono haha as Tokuji Funabashi
- 1970 A Yakuza Goes Home
- 1977 Japan's Don as Shoji Taguchi
- 1964 Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office as Kansuke
- 1991 The Great Shogunate Battle
- 1956 Gyakukōsen
- 1960 The Rambler Rides Again
- 1979 Troubleman Laughs and Kills as Actor
- 1975 The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- 1961 Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Katsumata
- 1973 Dangerous Trade in Kobe
- 1963 Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Kumagai
- 1955 Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1966 Dianas of the Campus
- 1966 Yakuza Vassal
- 1971 The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
- 1953 At the End of the Clouds
- 1967 The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
- 1960 The Law's Bloody Wounds
- 1969 The Fatal Raid
- 1952 Violence
- 1954 Student Double Suicide
- 1966 A Drop of Grease
- 1966 Prison Release Loyalty Offering
- 1967 The Last Loyalty Offering
- 1959 The Echo of Love
- 1959 Merciless Bullet as Sawamura
- 1958 The Man Who Rode the Typhoon as Yuzo Hayata
- 1972 Shōwa Gokudōshi
- 1965 Color
- 1967 Killer of Seven
- 1959 Kawaii Onna
- 1957 The Awakening
- 1960 Wakai toppū
- 1954 Wakai hito-tachi
- 1991 The Man Who Became The Don
- 1965 The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
- 1968 Diamonds of the Andes
- 1980 The Detective Journey
- 1967 Portrait of Chieko as Yamazaki
- 1968 Scoundrel
- 1961 An Angel is Chasing Me
- 1959 We Live Today
- 1964 Traveling Alone with a Guitar
- 1970 アッと驚く為五郎
- 1959 Ningyō no uta
- 1959 Get Over Her as Yoshino
- 1966 Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- 1967 Under the Stars of Singapore
- 1967 Escape Man
- 1961 The Famous Wanderer
- 1964 Call My Black Dice as Sakakibara (Boss of the Tokyo-based Sakakibara gang)
- 1965 Expelled from the Kanto Mob
- 1953 Waseda University as Hotani Nitarō
- 1955 So Deep in My Heart
- 1958 Unga as Hitoshi Itami
- 1966 Hi No Taiko
- 1951 Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
- 1966 New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
- 1957 危険な関係
- 1955 Women of Ginza
- 1956 Lovers
- 1979 Kusa Moeru ( 51 episodes ) as Taira no Kiyomori
- 1980 Shadow Warriors ( 27 episodes ) as Sakai Tadakiyo
- 1980 Shōgun ( 5 episodes ) as Ishido
- 1975 Unified Shadows ( 28 episodes )
- 1994 Father and Son Hawk ( 11 episodes )
