Nobuo Kaneko
Born
March 27, 1923
Died
January 20, 1995 (71 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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

Father and Son Hawk
(11 episodes)
1994

Kokkai e ikô!
1993

The Great Shogunate Battle
1991

Check
Tennoji
1991

The Man Who Became The Don
1991

Four Days of Snow and Blood
Yoshiyuki Kawashima
1989

Surgical Designs in Flames
1986

Godzilla 1985
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1985

The Return of Godzilla
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1984

Karate Cop 2
1983

The Imperial Navy
Chuichi Nagumo
1981

The Detective Journey
1980

Shōgun
Ishido · (5 episodes)
1980
Nurse's Husband
1980

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Yoshio Yamamori
1980

Shadow Warriors
Sakai Tadakiyo · (27 episodes)
1980

Faraway Tomorrow
1979

The Shogun Assassins
Hayashi Razan
1979

Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Actor
1979

The Inferno
Emma Daio
1979

Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Kokichi Asakura
1979

Down with The Big Boss
1979

Devil's Flute
1979

Kusa Moeru
Taira no Kiyomori · (51 episodes)
1979

The Fall of Ako Castle
Kira
1978

Never Give Up
Head of Mizoguchi City
1978

Dynamite Don-Don
Denjiro Hasimoto
1978

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Hideyoshi Hirayama
1978

Shogun's Samurai
1978
Karate Wars
1978

Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Hirano
1977

Japan's Don
Shoji Taguchi
1977

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1976

New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976

Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Akama
1976
Cobra 2
Tajima
1976

Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
1975

300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
1975

Shimane Prison Riot
Torao Yoshinari
1975

The Murder Corps
1975

Cops vs. Thugs
Masaichi Tomoyasu
1975

Unified Shadows
(28 episodes)
1975

The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974

The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Warden
1974

The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1974

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974

Father of the Kamikaze
1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Yoshio Yamamori
1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Yoshio Yamamori
1974

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
Kakutarô Shinohara
1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Yoshio Yamamori
1973

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Senzo Ogata
1973

Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Hadano
1973

The Hard Core Criminal
1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Yoshio Yamamori
1973

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
1973

Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
Narrator
1973

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Yoshio Yamamori
1973

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

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

The Pledge
1972

Turtle Geisha
1972

Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Chief of Police
1972

The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971

Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971

Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
1971

Thugs of Shinjuku
1970

The Experience
1970

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970

King of the Night Life
1970

Postwar Secrets
1970

アッと驚く為五郎
1970

Duel at Fort Ezo
1970

A Yakuza Goes Home
1970

Woman Boss
1970

The Bad Guy Blues
1969

The Fatal Raid
1969

Samurai Geisha
Osuga
1969

The Biggest Gamble
1969

The Yakuza Awaits
1969

New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968

Living Skeleton
Suetsugu
1968

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

Rogue
Suyama
1968

Enlisted Yakuza
1968

Red Peony Gambler
1968

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Tokuyasu
1968

Downtown Blues
1968
The Worship of the Flesh
Denbei
1968

Hot Springs Geisha
Shinagawa
1968

Curse of the Blood
Sojun
1968

Diamonds of the Andes
1968

Scoundrel
1968

Big Time Gambling Boss
Tasaburô Senba
1968

Human Torpedoes
1968

The Last Loyalty Offering
1967

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967

Killer of Seven
1967

Gambler's World
Ushimatsu Fujii
1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Shurinosuke Asahina
1967

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967

Organized Violence II
Head of Department
1967

Portrait of Chieko
Sawada
1967

Portrait of Chieko
Yamazaki
1967

Dissolution Rites
Itagaki
1967

Under the Stars of Singapore
1967

Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1966

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

A Drop of Grease
1966

Rub Out the Past
1966

The Harbor of No Return
1966

Seven Gamblers
1966

Love Eternal
Aoki
1966

Dianas of the Campus
1966

Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966

Warm Current
1966
Convicted Woman
1966

Yakuza Vassal
1966

The Magic Serpent
Dôjin Hiki
1966

Color
1965

Chivalrous Life
1965

The Black Cat
1965

Nageta daisu ga ashita o yobu
1965

Flowering Maidens
Matsui
1965

Black Thief
1964

Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Unosuke
1964

The Flower and the Sword
1964

The Glamorous Ghost
Kenji Yamakoshi
1964

Giant Rumble
1964

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Kansuke
1964

Black Weapon
1964

Main Street in the Underworld
1964

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Honda Shinpachi
1964

Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1964

Red Handkerchief
1964

The Revenge and the Death
Kawazu
1963

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

The Third Shadow Warrior
1963

Youth of the Beast
Sôichi Ozawa
1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Inspector Kumagaya
1963

Namari o buchikome
1962

Ai to shi no katami
1962

Bōkyō no umi
1962

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962

Jūdan no arashi
1962

Moeru minamijūjisei
1962

Red Bud and White Flower
1962

Song of a Traveller
1962

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1962

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Kozo Haraguchi
1961

Wind and waves of the South
Kihei
1961

Crimson pistol belt
1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961

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

The Plateau Man
1961

Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961

Whistling in the Darkness
1961

Quick Draw Joe
Mishima
1961

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Katsumata
1961

Tokyo Knights
Mishima
1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Kirihara Gôchô
1961

Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961

The Rambler Rides Again
1960

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960

Wakai toppū
1960

The Lost Diamond
1960

Return of the Vagabond
1960

Intimidation
Kyosuke Takita
1960

The Poem of the Blue Star
1960

The Law's Bloody Wounds
1960

The Age of Our Own
1959

The Rambling Guitarist
Akitsu
1959

The Wild Reporter
Funakoshi
1959

Ningyō no uta
1959

Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959

Merciless Bullet
Sawamura
1959

Kawaii Onna
1959

The Echo of Love
1959

A Man Explodes
1959

We Live Today
1959

The Praying Man
Shinichiro Kuraki
1959

Get Over The Woman
1959

Friendship of Jazz
1959

Voice Without a Shadow
Kawai
1958

Wolves of the Night
1958

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958

That Wonderful Guy
1958

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1958

Night Drum
1958

Forever, My Love
Tachio Kinumaki
1958

Man Who Causes a Storm
Toru Sakyo, the critic
1957

The Awakening
1957

The Barefoot Girl
1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Denbei
1957

This Day's Life
1957
Madam
1957

Eight Hours of Terror
Kosaku Mori
1957

Lunar Eclipse
1956

Hungry Soul, Part II
Reiji Ajioka
1956

Okinawa no Tami
1956

Hungry Soul
Reiji Ajioka
1956

Summer Storm
Kido
1956
Tonari no yome
1956

Gyakukōsen
1956

Ryûri no kishi
1956

Phoenix
1956
Called to the Stand
1956

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Sayama
1955

A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Stray Sheep
Haraguchi, the painter
1955

Till We Meet Again
Akira Mimura
1955

Floating Clouds
1955

Wakai hito-tachi
1954

Student Double Suicide
1954
Cape Ashizuri
1954

The Garden of Women
Kihei Hirato
1954

Itsuko to sono haha
Tokuji Funabashi
1954

Sound of the Mountain
1954

Red-Light Bases
Sugio Kawanabe
1953

At the End of the Clouds
1953

Vacuum Zone
1952

Ikiru
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
1952

Violence
1952

Vendetta of a Samurai
1952

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Kashima
1950