Nobuo Kaneko

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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

Ikiru

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

The Return of Godzilla

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Shōgun

Ishido

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Kirihara Gôchô

Godzilla 1985

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Yoshio Yamamori

Floating Clouds

Self

Youth of the Beast

Sôichi Ozawa

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1994	Father and Son Hawk TV	Self
1993	Kokkai e ikô! MOVIE	Self
1991	The Great Shogunate Battle MOVIE	Self
1991	Check MOVIE	Tennoji
1991	The Man Who Became The Don MOVIE	Self
1989	Four Days of Snow and Blood MOVIE	Yoshiyuki Kawashima
1986	Surgical Designs in Flames MOVIE	Self
1985	Godzilla 1985 MOVIE	Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1984	The Return of Godzilla MOVIE	Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1983	Karate Cop 2 MOVIE	Self
1981	The Imperial Navy MOVIE	Chuichi Nagumo
1980	The Detective Journey MOVIE	Self
1980	Shōgun TV	Ishido
1980	Nurse's Husband MOVIE	Self
1980	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1980	Shadow Warriors TV	Sakai Tadakiyo
1979	Faraway Tomorrow MOVIE	Self
1979	The Shogun Assassins MOVIE	Hayashi Razan
1979	Troubleman Laughs and Kills MOVIE	Actor
1979	The Inferno MOVIE	Emma Daio
1979	Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity MOVIE	Kokichi Asakura
1979	Down with The Big Boss MOVIE	Self
1979	Devil's Flute MOVIE	Self
1979	Kusa Moeru TV	Taira no Kiyomori
1978	The Fall of Ako Castle MOVIE	Kira
1978	Never Give Up MOVIE	Head of Mizoguchi City
1978	Dynamite Don-Don MOVIE	Denjiro Hasimoto
1978	Japanese Godfather: Conclusion MOVIE	Hideyoshi Hirayama
1978	Shogun's Samurai MOVIE	Self
1978	Karate Wars MOVIE	Self
1977	Japanese Godfather: Ambition MOVIE	Hirano
1977	Japan's Don MOVIE	Shoji Taguchi
1976	Truck Rascals in Fever Heat MOVIE	Self
1976	New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion MOVIE	Self
1976	Yakuza Graveyard MOVIE	Chief Akama
1976	Cobra 2 MOVIE	Tajima
1975	Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!! MOVIE	Self
1975	300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations MOVIE	Self
1975	Shimane Prison Riot MOVIE	Torao Yoshinari
1975	Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps MOVIE	Self
1975	Cops vs. Thugs MOVIE	Masaichi Tomoyasu
1975	Unified Shadows TV	Self
1975	The Viper Brothers and the Young General MOVIE	Self
1974	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 MOVIE	Self
1974	The Rapacious Jailbreaker MOVIE	Yoshio Imazu - Warden
1974	Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game MOVIE	Self
1974	Father of the Kamikaze MOVIE	Self
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1973	Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage MOVIE	Kakutarô Shinohara
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1973	Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle MOVIE	Senzo Ogata
1973	Dangerous Trade in Kobe MOVIE	Self
1973	Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School MOVIE	Hadano
1973	The Hard Core Criminal MOVIE	Self
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1973	Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom MOVIE	Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
1973	Semi-Document: Eros No Joô MOVIE	Narrator
1973	Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban MOVIE	Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity MOVIE	Yoshio Yamamori
1972	Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom MOVIE	Self
1972	New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm MOVIE	Self
1972	The Pledge MOVIE	Self
1972	Turtle Geisha MOVIE	Self
1972	Shōwa Gokudōshi MOVIE	Self
1972	The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang MOVIE	Chief of Police
1971	The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor MOVIE	Self
1971	Story of Japanese Bad Men MOVIE	Self
1971	Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler MOVIE	Self
1971	Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess MOVIE	Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
1970	Thugs of Shinjuku MOVIE	Self
1970	The Experience MOVIE	Self
1970	Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams MOVIE	Self
1970	The Kingpin of Fair Ladies MOVIE	Self
1970	King of the Night Life MOVIE	Self
1970	Postwar Secrets MOVIE	Self
1970	アッと驚く為五郎 MOVIE	Self
1970	Duel at Fort Ezo MOVIE	Self
1970	A Yakuza Goes Home MOVIE	Self
1970	Woman Boss MOVIE	Self
1969	The Bad Guy Blues MOVIE	Self
1969	The Fatal Raid MOVIE	Self
1969	Samurai Geisha MOVIE	Osuga
1969	The Biggest Gamble MOVIE	Self
1969	The Yakuza Awaits MOVIE	Self
1968	New Prison Walls of Abashiri MOVIE	Self
1968	Living Skeleton MOVIE	Suetsugu
1968	Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time MOVIE	Self
1968	Rogue MOVIE	Suyama
1968	Enlisted Yakuza MOVIE	Self
1968	Red Peony Gambler MOVIE	Self
1968	Brothers'Code - The Back Relation MOVIE	Self
1968	Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell MOVIE	Tokuyasu
1968	Downtown Blues MOVIE	Self
1968	The Worship of the Flesh MOVIE	Denbei
1968	Hot Springs Geisha MOVIE	Shinagawa
1968	Curse of the Blood MOVIE	Sojun
1968	Diamonds of the Andes MOVIE	Self
1968	Scoundrel MOVIE	Self
1968	Big Time Gambling Boss MOVIE	Tasaburô Senba
1968	Human Torpedoes MOVIE	Self
1967	The Last Loyalty Offering MOVIE	Self
1967	Escape Man MOVIE	Self
1967	The Domain: Where The Blade Enters MOVIE	Self
1967	Killer of Seven MOVIE	Self
1967	Gambler's World MOVIE	Ushimatsu Fujii
1967	Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps MOVIE	Shurinosuke Asahina
1967	Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4 MOVIE	Self
1967	Organized Violence II MOVIE	Head of Department
1967	Portrait of Chieko MOVIE	Sawada
1967	Portrait of Chieko MOVIE	Yamazaki
1967	Dissolution Rites MOVIE	Itagaki
1967	Under the Stars of Singapore MOVIE	Self
1966	Prison Release Loyalty Offering MOVIE	Self
1966	Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love MOVIE	Self
1966	A Drop of Grease MOVIE	Self
1966	Rub Out the Past MOVIE	Self
1966	The Harbor of No Return MOVIE	Self
1966	Seven Gamblers MOVIE	Self
1966	Love Eternal MOVIE	Aoki
1966	Dianas of the Campus MOVIE	Self
1966	Love and Desire in the Night Mist MOVIE	Self
1966	Warm Current MOVIE	Self
1966	Convicted Woman MOVIE	Self
1966	Yakuza Vassal MOVIE	Self
1966	The Magic Serpent MOVIE	Dôjin Hiki
1965	Color MOVIE	Self
1965	Chivalrous Life MOVIE	Self
1965	The Black Cat MOVIE	Self
1965	The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow MOVIE	Self
1965	Flowering Maidens MOVIE	Matsui
1964	Black Thief MOVIE	Self
1964	Traveling Alone with a Guitar MOVIE	Self
1964	Fight, Zatoichi, Fight MOVIE	Unosuke
1964	The Flower and the Sword MOVIE	Self
1964	The Glamorous Ghost MOVIE	Kenji Yamakoshi
1964	Giant Rumble MOVIE	Self
1964	Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office MOVIE	Kansuke
1964	Black Weapon MOVIE	Self
1964	Main Street in the Underworld MOVIE	Self
1964	Edo Crime Book: Black Claws MOVIE	Honda Shinpachi
1964	Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut MOVIE	Self
1964	Red Handkerchief MOVIE	Self
1963	The Revenge and the Death MOVIE	Kawazu
1963	Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women MOVIE	Kumagai
1963	The Third Shadow Warrior MOVIE	Self
1963	Youth of the Beast MOVIE	Sôichi Ozawa
1963	Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! MOVIE	Inspector Kumagaya
1962	Traces of Lead MOVIE	Self
1962	Ai to shi no katami MOVIE	Self
1962	Bōkyō no umi MOVIE	Self
1962	Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa MOVIE	Self
1962	Jūdan no arashi MOVIE	Self
1962	Last Round MOVIE	Self
1962	Red Bud and White Flower MOVIE	Self
1962	Song of a Traveller MOVIE	Self
1962	Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha MOVIE	Self
1961	Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab MOVIE	Kozo Haraguchi
1961	Wind and waves of the South MOVIE	Kihei
1961	Crimson pistol belt MOVIE	Self
1961	Standing Towards the Great Forest MOVIE	Self
1961	The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass MOVIE	Self
1961	The Plateau Man MOVIE	Self
1961	Joe of Aces: Give and Take MOVIE	Self
1961	Whistling in the Darkness MOVIE	Self
1961	Quick Draw Joe MOVIE	Mishima
1961	でかんしょ風来坊 MOVIE	Self
1961	Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living MOVIE	Katsumata
1961	Tokyo Knights MOVIE	Mishima
1961	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer MOVIE	Kirihara Gôchô
1961	An Angel is Chasing Me MOVIE	Self
1961	The Rambler under the Southern Cross MOVIE	Self
1960	The Rambler Rides Again MOVIE	Self
1960	The Rambler on a Pearl Farm MOVIE	Self
1960	Wakai toppū MOVIE	Self
1960	The Lost Diamond MOVIE	Self
1960	Return of the Vagabond MOVIE	Self
1960	Intimidation MOVIE	Kyosuke Takita
1960	The Poem of the Blue Star MOVIE	Self
1960	The Law's Bloody Wounds MOVIE	Self
1959	The Age of Our Own MOVIE	Self
1959	The Rambling Guitarist MOVIE	Akitsu
1959	The Wild Reporter MOVIE	Funakoshi
1959	Ningyō no uta MOVIE	Self
1959	Farewell to Southern Tosa MOVIE	Self
1959	Merciless Bullet MOVIE	Sawamura
1959	Kawaii Onna MOVIE	Self
1959	The Echo of Love MOVIE	Self
1959	A Man Explodes MOVIE	Self
1959	We Live Today MOVIE	Self
1959	The Praying Man MOVIE	Shinichiro Kuraki
1959	Get Over Her MOVIE	Self
1959	Friendship of Jazz MOVIE	Self
1958	Voice Without a Shadow MOVIE	Kawai
1958	Wolves of the Night MOVIE	Self
1958	The Man Who Rode the Typhoon MOVIE	Self
1958	That Wonderful Guy MOVIE	Self
1958	Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku MOVIE	Self
1958	Night Drum MOVIE	Self
1958	Forever, My Love MOVIE	Tachio Kinumaki
1957	Man Who Causes a Storm MOVIE	Toru Sakyo, the critic
1957	The Awakening MOVIE	Self
1957	The Barefoot Girl MOVIE	Self
1957	A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era MOVIE	Denbei
1957	This Day's Life MOVIE	Self
1957	Madam MOVIE	Self
1957	Eight Hours of Terror MOVIE	Kosaku Mori
1956	Lunar Eclipse MOVIE	Self
1956	Hungry Soul, Part II MOVIE	Reiji Ajioka
1956	Okinawa no Tami MOVIE	Self
1956	Hungry Soul MOVIE	Reiji Ajioka
1956	Summer Storm MOVIE	Kido
1956	Tonari no yome MOVIE	Self
1956	Gyakukōsen MOVIE	Self
1956	Ryûri no kishi MOVIE	Self
1956	Phoenix MOVIE	Self
1956	Called to the Stand MOVIE	Self
1955	Policeman's Diary, Part 2 MOVIE	Self
1955	Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree MOVIE	Sayama
1955	A Hole of My Own Making MOVIE	Self
1955	Stray Sheep MOVIE	Haraguchi, the painter
1955	Till We Meet Again MOVIE	Akira Mimura
1955	Floating Clouds MOVIE	Self
1954	Wakai hito-tachi MOVIE	Self
1954	Student Double Suicide MOVIE	Self
1954	Cape Ashizuri MOVIE	Self
1954	The Garden of Women MOVIE	Kihei Hirato
1954	Itsuko to sono haha MOVIE	Tokuji Funabashi
1954	Sound of the Mountain MOVIE	Self
1953	Red-Light Bases MOVIE	Sugio Kawanabe
1953	At the End of the Clouds MOVIE	Self
1952	Vacuum Zone MOVIE	Self
1952	Ikiru MOVIE	Mitsuo, son of Kanji
1952	Violence MOVIE	Self
1952	Vendetta of a Samurai MOVIE	Self
1950	The Rainbow-Colored Flower MOVIE	Kashima

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