Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
as Unknown
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
Surgical Designs in Flames
Godzilla 1985
as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
The Return of Godzilla
as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Karate Cop 2
The Imperial Navy
as Chuichi Nagumo
The Detective Journey
Nurse's Husband
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Yoshio Yamamori
Faraway Tomorrow
The Shogun Assassins
as Hayashi Razan
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
as Actor
The Inferno
as Emma Daio
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Kokichi Asakura
Down with The Big Boss
Devil's Flute
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Kira
Never Give Up
as Head of Mizoguchi City
Dynamite Don-Don
as Denjiro Hasimoto
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Hideyoshi Hirayama
Shogun's Samurai
Karate Wars
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Hirano
Japan's Don
as Shoji Taguchi
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Yakuza Graveyard
as Chief Akama
Cobra 2
as Tajima
Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Shimane Prison Riot
as Torao Yoshinari
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
Cops vs. Thugs
as Masaichi Tomoyasu
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Yoshio Yamamori
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as Yoshio Imazu - Warden
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Father of the Kamikaze
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Yoshio Yamamori
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Yoshio Yamamori
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates
as Kakutarô Shinohara
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Yoshio Yamamori
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
as Senzo Ogata
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Hadano
The Hard Core Criminal
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Yoshio Yamamori
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
Queen of Eros
as Narrator
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Yoshio Yamamori
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
The Pledge
Turtle Geisha
Shōwa Gokudōshi
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as Chief of Police
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
Story of Japanese Bad Men
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
Thugs of Shinjuku
The Experience
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
King of the Night Life
Postwar Secrets
アッと驚く為五郎
Duel at Fort Ezo
A Yakuza Goes Home
Woman Boss
The Bad Guy Blues
The Fatal Raid
Samurai Geisha
as Osuga
The Biggest Gamble
The Yakuza Awaits
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Living Skeleton
as Suetsugu
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Rogue
as Suyama
Enlisted Yakuza
Red Peony Gambler
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
as Tokuyasu
Downtown Blues
The Worship of the Flesh
as Denbei
Hot Springs Geisha
as Shinagawa
Curse of the Blood
as Sojun
Diamonds of the Andes
Scoundrel
Big Time Gambling Boss
as Tasaburô Senba
Human Torpedoes
The Last Loyalty Offering
Escape Man
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Killer of Seven
Gambler's World
as Ushimatsu Fujii
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
as Shurinosuke Asahina
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Organized Violence II
as Head of Department
Portrait of Chieko
as Sawada
Portrait of Chieko
as Yamazaki
Dissolution Rites
as Itagaki
Under the Stars of Singapore
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
A Drop of Grease
Rub Out the Past
The Harbor of No Return
Seven Gamblers
Love Eternal
as Aoki
Dianas of the Campus
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Warm Current
Convicted Woman
Yakuza Vassal
The Magic Serpent
as Dôjin Hiki
Hi No Taiko
Expelled from the Kanto Mob
Color
Chivalrous Life
The Black Cat
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
Flowering Maidens
as Matsui
Black Thief
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
as Unosuke
The Flower and the Sword
Call My Black Dice
as Sakakibara (Boss of the Tokyo-based Sakakibara gang)
The Glamorous Ghost
as Kenji Yamakoshi
Giant Rumble
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
as Kansuke
Black Weapon
Main Street in the Underworld
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
as Honda Shinpachi
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
Red Handkerchief
The Revenge and the Death
as Kawazu
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
as Kumagai
The Third Shadow Warrior
Youth of the Beast
as Sôichi Ozawa
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as Inspector Kumagaya
Traces of Lead
Ai to shi no katami
Bōkyō no umi
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Jūdan no arashi
Last Round
Red Bud and White Flower
Song of a Traveller
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
as Kozo Haraguchi
Wind and waves of the South
as Kihei
Crimson Pistol
Standing Towards the Great Forest
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
as Ken
The Plateau Man
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Whistling in the Darkness
Quick Draw Joe
as Mishima
The Famous Wanderer
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
as Katsumata
Tokyo Knights
as Mishima
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Kirihara Gôchô
An Angel is Chasing Me
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
The Rambler Rides Again
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Wakai toppū
The Lost Diamond
Return of the Vagabond
Intimidation
as Kyosuke Takita
Yakuza Song
The Law's Bloody Wounds
The Age of Our Own
The Rambling Guitarist
as Akitsu
The Wild Reporter
as Funakoshi
Ningyō no uta
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Merciless Bullet
as Sawamura
Kawaii Onna
The Echo of Love
A Man Explodes
We Live Today
The Praying Man
as Shinichiro Kuraki
Get Over Her
as Yoshino
Friendship of Jazz
Voice Without a Shadow
as Kawai
Wolves of the Night
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
as Yuzo Hayata
Unga
as Hitoshi Itami
That Wonderful Guy
Tomorrow is Another Day
Night Drum
Forever, My Love
as Tachio Kinumaki
Man Who Causes a Storm
as Toru Sakyo, the critic
The Awakening
The Barefoot Girl
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Denbei
This Day's Life
Madam
Eight Hours of Terror
as Kosaku Mori
Lunar Eclipse
Hungry Soul, Part II
as Reiji Ajioka
Okinawa no Tami
Hungry Soul
as Reiji Ajioka
Summer Storm
as Kido
Tonari no yome
Gyakukōsen
Wandering Shore
Phoenix
as Fuji director
Called to the Stand
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
So Deep in My Heart
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Sayama
A Hole of My Own Making
Stray Sheep
as Haraguchi, the painter
Till We Meet Again
as Akira Mimura
Floating Clouds
Wakai hito-tachi
Student Double Suicide
Cape Ashizuri
The Garden of Women
as Kihei Hirato
Itsuko to sono haha
as Tokuji Funabashi
Sound of the Mountain
The Red Light Military Base
as Sugio Kawanabe
Waseda University
as Hotani Nitarō
At the End of the Clouds
Vacuum Zone
as Sergeant Kaneko
Ikiru
as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Violence
Vendetta of a Samurai
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Kashima
