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.
Acted in 240
1990s
- 1994
Father and Son Hawk
TV
- 1993
Kokkai e ikô!
Movie
- 1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
Movie
Check
Tennoji
The Man Who Became The Don
Movie
1980s
- 1989
- 1986
Surgical Designs in Flames
Movie
- 1985
Godzilla 1985
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- 1984
- 1983
Karate Cop 2
Movie
- 1981
- 1980
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Yoshio Yamamori
1970s
- 1979
Faraway Tomorrow
Movie
The Inferno
Emma Daio
Devil's Flute
Movie
- 1978
- 1977
- 1976
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Movie
Cobra 2
Tajima
- 1975
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Movie
Shimane Prison Riot
Torao Yoshinari
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
Movie
Unified Shadows
TV
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Movie
- 1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Yoshio Imazu - Warden
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Movie
Father of the Kamikaze
Movie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Yoshio Yamamori
- 1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates
Kakutarô Shinohara
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Senzo Ogata
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Movie
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Hadano
The Hard Core Criminal
Movie
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
- 1972
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
Movie
The Pledge
Movie
Turtle Geisha
Movie
Shōwa Gokudōshi
Movie
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Chief of Police
- 1971
Story of Japanese Bad Men
Movie
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Movie
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
- 1970
Thugs of Shinjuku
Movie
The Experience
Movie
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie
King of the Night Life
Movie
Postwar Secrets
Movie
アッと驚く為五郎
Movie
Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie
A Yakuza Goes Home
Movie
Woman Boss
Movie
1960s
- 1969
The Bad Guy Blues
Movie
Samurai Geisha
Osuga
The Biggest Gamble
Movie
The Yakuza Awaits
Movie
- 1968
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Movie
Rogue
Suyama
Enlisted Yakuza
Movie
Red Peony Gambler
Movie
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Movie
Downtown Blues
Movie
The Worship of the Flesh
Denbei
Hot Springs Geisha
Shinagawa
Curse of the Blood
Sojun
Scoundrel
Movie
Big Time Gambling Boss
Tasaburô Senba
Human Torpedoes
Movie
- 1967
Escape Man
Movie
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Movie
Killer of Seven
Movie
Gambler's World
Ushimatsu Fujii
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Shurinosuke Asahina
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Movie
Organized Violence II
Head of Department
Dissolution Rites
Itagaki
Under the Stars of Singapore
Movie
- 1966
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
Movie
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
Movie
A Drop of Grease
Movie
Rub Out the Past
Movie
Love Eternal
Aoki
New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
Movie
Warm Current
Movie
Convicted Woman
Movie
Yakuza Vassal
Movie
The Magic Serpent
Dôjin Hiki
Hi No Taiko
Movie
- 1965
Expelled from the Kanto Mob
Movie
Chivalrous Life
Movie
The Black Cat
Movie
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
Movie
- 1964
Black Thief
Movie
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Unosuke
The Flower and the Sword
Movie
The Glamorous Ghost
Kenji Yamakoshi
Giant Rumble
Movie
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Kansuke
Black Weapon
Movie
Main Street in the Underworld
Movie
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Honda Shinpachi
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
Movie
- 1963
The Revenge and the Death
Kawazu
The Third Shadow Warrior
Movie
- 1962
Red Bud and White Flower
Movie
- 1961
Crimson Pistol
Movie
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Katsumata
- 1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Movie
The Lost Diamond
Movie
Intimidation
Kyosuke Takita
Yakuza Song
Movie
1950s
- 1959
The Age of Our Own
Movie
The Wild Reporter
Funakoshi
Merciless Bullet
Sawamura
The Echo of Love
Movie
We Live Today
Movie
- 1958
Voice Without a Shadow
Kawai
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Yuzo Hayata
Unga
Hitoshi Itami
- 1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Denbei
Eight Hours of Terror
Kosaku Mori
危険な関係
Movie
- 1956
Lunar Eclipse
Movie
Okinawa no Tami
Movie
Phoenix
Fuji director
Lovers
Movie
Called to the Stand
Prosecutor
- 1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie
So Deep in My Heart
Movie
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Sayama
A Hole of My Own Making
Movie
Till We Meet Again
Akira Mimura
Floating Clouds
Movie
- 1954
Wakai hito-tachi
Movie
Itsuko to sono haha
Tokuji Funabashi
Sound of the Mountain
Movie
- 1953
The Red Light Military Base
Sugio Kawanabe
Waseda University
Hotani Nitarō
At the End of the Clouds
Movie
- 1952
Violence
Movie
Vendetta of a Samurai
Movie
- 1951
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
Movie
- 1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Kashima
Appearances1
1970s
- 1973
Queen of Eros
Narrator