Nobuo Kaneko
Acting

Nobuo Kaneko

Born 27 March 1923 · Taito, Tokyo, Japan · Died 20 January 1995

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

Ikiru
The Return of Godzilla
Shōgun
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Godzilla 1985
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Floating Clouds
Youth of the Beast
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Sound of the Mountain
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Kokkai e ikô!
Check
The Great Shogunate Battle
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
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The Detective Journey
The Inferno
Devil's Flute
Down with The Big Boss
The Shogun Assassins
Faraway Tomorrow
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Never Give Up
Dynamite Don-Don
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
The Fall of Ako Castle
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Japan's Don
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
Cobra 2
Yakuza Graveyard
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Shimane Prison Riot
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
Cops vs. Thugs
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Father of the Kamikaze
Queen of Eros
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
The Hard Core Criminal
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Turtle Geisha
The Pledge
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Shōwa Gokudōshi
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Story of Japanese Bad Men
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
Woman Boss
The Experience
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
King of the Night Life
Thugs of Shinjuku
Duel at Fort Ezo
Postwar Secrets
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
A Yakuza Goes Home
アッと驚く為五郎
The Yakuza Awaits
The Bad Guy Blues
Samurai Geisha
The Biggest Gamble
The Fatal Raid
Rogue
Living Skeleton
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
The Worship of the Flesh
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Enlisted Yakuza
Curse of the Blood
Human Torpedoes
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Downtown Blues
Red Peony Gambler
Hot Springs Geisha
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Big Time Gambling Boss
Diamonds of the Andes
Scoundrel
Organized Violence II
Dissolution Rites
Portrait of Chieko
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Gambler's World
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
The Last Loyalty Offering
Killer of Seven
Under the Stars of Singapore
Escape Man
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
Warm Current
The Magic Serpent
The Harbor of No Return
Rub Out the Past
Convicted Woman
Seven Gamblers
Love Eternal
Dianas of the Campus
Yakuza Vassal
A Drop of Grease
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Hi No Taiko
New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
Flowering Maidens
Chivalrous Life
The Black Cat
Color
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
Expelled from the Kanto Mob
Main Street in the Underworld
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Black Weapon
Red Handkerchief
The Glamorous Ghost
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Black Thief
The Flower and the Sword
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
Giant Rumble
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Call My Black Dice
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
The Third Shadow Warrior
The Revenge and the Death
Youth of the Beast
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Red Bud and White Flower
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Last Round
Jūdan no arashi
Ai to shi no katami
Bōkyō no umi
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Song of a Traveller
Traces of Lead
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Standing Towards the Great Forest
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Whistling in the Darkness
Crimson Pistol
Tokyo Knights
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
The Plateau Man
Quick Draw Joe
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Wind and waves of the South
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
An Angel is Chasing Me
The Famous Wanderer
Intimidation
Return of the Vagabond
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Yakuza Song
The Lost Diamond
The Rambler Rides Again
The Law's Bloody Wounds
Wakai toppū
The Wild Reporter
A Man Explodes
The Age of Our Own
The Rambling Guitarist
The Praying Man
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Friendship of Jazz
The Echo of Love
Merciless Bullet
Kawaii Onna
We Live Today
Ningyō no uta
Get Over Her
Tomorrow is Another Day
Wolves of the Night
Voice Without a Shadow
Night Drum
That Wonderful Guy
Forever, My Love
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Unga
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Man Who Causes a Storm
This Day's Life
Eight Hours of Terror
The Barefoot Girl
The Awakening
危険な関係
Phoenix
Wandering Shore
Summer Storm
Called to the Stand
Lunar Eclipse
Hungry Soul
Okinawa no Tami
Hungry Soul, Part II
Gyakukōsen
Lovers
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
A Hole of My Own Making
Till We Meet Again
Floating Clouds
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
So Deep in My Heart
Women of Ginza
Sound of the Mountain
Cape Ashizuri
The Garden of Women
Itsuko to sono haha
Student Double Suicide
Wakai hito-tachi
The Red Light Military Base
At the End of the Clouds
Waseda University
Ikiru
Vacuum Zone
Vendetta of a Samurai
Violence
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
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