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Nobuo Kaneko

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

27/03/1923

Day of Death

20/01/1995
(72) years old

Place of Birth

Taito, Tokyo, Japan

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.

Known For

Kokkai e ikô!

The Great Shogunate Battle

Check

The Man Who Became The Don

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Surgical Designs in Flames

Godzilla 1985

The Return of Godzilla

Karate Cop 2

The Imperial Navy

Filmography

Cast

1993

Kokkai e ikô!

1991

The Great Shogunate Battle

1991

Check

as Tennoji

1991

The Man Who Became The Don

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Yoshiyuki Kawashima

1986

Surgical Designs in Flames

1985

Godzilla 1985

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1984

The Return of Godzilla

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1983

Karate Cop 2

1981

The Imperial Navy

as Chuichi Nagumo

1980

The Detective Journey

1980

Nurse's Husband

1980

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The ...

as Yoshio Yamamori

1979

Faraway Tomorrow

1979

The Shogun Assassins

as Hayashi Razan

1979

Troubleman Laughs and Kills

as Actor

1979

The Inferno

as Emma Daio

1979

Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and H...

as Kokichi Asakura

1979

Down with The Big Boss

1979

Devil's Flute

1978

The Fall of Ako Castle

as Kira

1978

Never Give Up

as Head of Mizoguchi City

1978

Dynamite Don-Don

as Denjiro Hasimoto

1978

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

as Hideyoshi Hirayama

1978

Shogun's Samurai

1978

Karate Wars

1977

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

as Hirano

1977

Japan's Don

as Shoji Taguchi

1976

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

1976

New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

1976

Yakuza Graveyard

as Chief Akama

1976

Cobra 2

as Tajima

1975

Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!

1975

That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Eve...

1975

300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitation...

1975

Shimane Prison Riot

as Torao Yoshinari

1975

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihans...

1975

Cops vs. Thugs

as Masaichi Tomoyasu

1975

The Viper Brothers and the Young General

1974

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1974

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

as Warden

1974

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

1974

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game

1974

Father of the Kamikaze

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Fina...

as Yoshio Yamamori

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Poli...

as Yoshio Yamamori

1973

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Co...

as Kakutarô Shinohara

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Prox...

as Yoshio Yamamori

1973

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

as Senzo Ogata

1973

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

1973

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

as Hadano

1973

The Hard Core Criminal

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Dead...

as Yoshio Yamamori

1973

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law...

as Shigeru Satô - The President of The Scho...

1973

Semi-Document: Eros No Joô

as Narrator

1973

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

as Yoshio Yamamori

1972

Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's V...

1972

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Hum...

1972

The Pledge

1972

Turtle Geisha

1972

Shōwa Gokudōshi

1972

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

as Chief of Police

1971

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 Confe...

as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner

1970

Thugs of Shinjuku

1970

The Experience

1970

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night D...

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

1969

The Bad Guy Blues

1969

The Fatal Raid

1969

Samurai Geisha

as Osuga

1969

The Biggest Gamble

1969

The Yakuza Awaits

1968

New Prison Walls of Abashiri

1968

Living Skeleton

as Suetsugu

1968

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: F...

1968

Rogue

as Suyama

1968

Enlisted Yakuza

1968

Red Peony Gambler

1968

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

1968

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

as Tokuyasu

1968

Downtown Blues

1968

The Worship of the Flesh

as Denbei

1968

Hot Springs Geisha

as Shinagawa

1968

Curse of the Blood

as Sojun

1968

Diamonds of the Andes

1968

Scoundrel

1968

Big Time Gambling Boss

as Tasaburô Senba

1968

Human Torpedoes

1967

The Last Loyalty Offering

1967

Escape Man

1967

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

1967

Killer of Seven

1967

Gambler's World

as Ushimatsu Fujii

1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

as Shurinosuke Asahina

1967

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

1967

Organized Violence II

as Head of Department

1967

Portrait of Chieko

as Sawada

1967

Portrait of Chieko

as Yamazaki

1967

Dissolution Rites

as Itagaki

1967

Under the Stars of Singapore

1966

Prison Release Loyalty Offering

1966

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red a...

1966

A Drop of Grease

1966

Rub Out the Past

1966

The Harbor of No Return

1966

Seven Gamblers

1966

Love Eternal

as 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

as Dôjin Hiki

1965

Color

1965

Chivalrous Life

1965

The Black Cat

1965

The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomo...

1965

Flowering Maidens

as Matsui

1964

Black Thief

1964

Traveling Alone with a Guitar

1964

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

as Unosuke

1964

The Flower and the Sword

1964

The Glamorous Ghost

as Kenji Yamakoshi

1964

Giant Rumble

1964

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Of...

as Kansuke

1964

Black Weapon

1964

Main Street in the Underworld

1964

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

as Honda Shinpachi

1964

Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut

1964

Red Handkerchief

1963

The Revenge and the Death

as Kawazu

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Mone...

as Kumagai

1963

The Third Shadow Warrior

1963

Youth of the Beast

as Sôichi Ozawa

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastar...

as Inspector Kumagaya

1962

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

Last Round

1962

Red Bud and White Flower

1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1961

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

as Kozo Haraguchi

1961

Wind and waves of the South

as Kihei

1961

Crimson pistol belt

1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest

1961

The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Moun...

1961

The Plateau Man

1961

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

1961

Whistling in the Darkness

1961

Quick Draw Joe

as Mishima

1961

でかんしょ風来坊

1961

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

as Katsumata

1961

Tokyo Knights

as Mishima

1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Pra...

as Kirihara Gôchô

1961

An Angel is Chasing Me

1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1960

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

as Kyosuke Takita

1960

The Poem of the Blue Star

1960

The Law's Bloody Wounds

1959

The Age of Our Own

1959

The Rambling Guitarist

as Akitsu

1959

The Wild Reporter

as Funakoshi

1959

Ningyō no uta

1959

Farewell to Southern Tosa

1959

Merciless Bullet

as Sawamura

1959

Kawaii Onna

1959

The Echo of Love

1959

A Man Explodes

1959

We Live Today

1959

The Praying Man

as Shinichiro Kuraki

1959

Get Over Her

1959

Friendship of Jazz

1958

Voice Without a Shadow

as 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

as Tachio Kinumaki

1957

Man Who Causes a Storm

as Toru Sakyo, the critic

1957

The Awakening

1957

The Barefoot Girl

1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

as Denbei

1957

This Day's Life

1957

Madam

1957

Eight Hours of Terror

as Kosaku Mori

1956

Lunar Eclipse

1956

Hungry Soul, Part II

as Reiji Ajioka

1956

Okinawa no Tami

1956

Hungry Soul

as Reiji Ajioka

1956

Summer Storm

as Kido

1956

Tonari no yome

1956

Gyakukōsen

1956

Ryûri no kishi

1956

Phoenix

1956

Called to the Stand

1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

as Sayama

1955

A Hole of My Own Making

1955

Stray Sheep

as Haraguchi, the painter

1955

Till We Meet Again

as Akira Mimura

1955

Floating Clouds

1954

Wakai hito-tachi

1954

Student Double Suicide

1954

Cape Ashizuri

1954

The Garden of Women

as Kihei Hirato

1954

Itsuko to sono haha

as Tokuji Funabashi

1954

Sound of the Mountain

1953

Red-Light Bases

as Sugio Kawanabe

1953

At the End of the Clouds

1952

Vacuum Zone

1952

Ikiru

as Mitsuo, son of Kanji

1952

Violence

1952

Vendetta of a Samurai

1950

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

as Kashima