
Nobuo Kaneko
Department: Acting
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
1952

Red Bud and White Flower
1962

Never Give Up
1978

Phoenix
1956

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1966

Ryûri no kishi
1956

Rogue
1968

Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1962

Warm Current
1966

Sound of the Mountain
1954

Godzilla 1985
1985

Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961

Main Street in the Underworld
1964

The Magic Serpent
1966

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
1964

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974

Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
1973

Intimidation
1960

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963

Woman Boss
1970

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957

Living Skeleton
1968

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1973

Cape Ashizuri
1954

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
1973

Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968

The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961

The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1974

The Worship of the Flesh
1968

Man Who Causes a Storm
1957

The Experience
1970

The Garden of Women
1954

The Wild Reporter
1959

Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
1975

The Inferno
1979

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1958

Last Round
1962

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
1973

Flowering Maidens
1965

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1968

Summer Storm
1956

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974

A Man Explodes
1959

The Yakuza Awaits
1969

Jūdan no arashi
1962

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955

Enlisted Yakuza
1968

The Harbor of No Return
1966

Ai to shi no katami
1962

Whistling in the Darkness
1961

Black Weapon
1964

Kokkai e ikô!
1993

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1976

Crimson pistol belt
1961

Bōkyō no umi
1962

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962

The Imperial Navy
1981

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
1971

Song of a Traveller
1962

Wolves of the Night
1958

Traces of Lead
1962

Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971

Return of the Vagabond
1960

Chivalrous Life
1965

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
1973

This Day's Life
1957

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960

Red Handkerchief
1964

Voice Without a Shadow
1958

Eight Hours of Terror
1957

The Age of Our Own
1959

The Rambling Guitarist
1959

Curse of the Blood
1968

Human Torpedoes
1968

Cobra 2
1976

Vacuum Zone
1952

Nurse's Husband
1980

Night Drum
1958

The Glamorous Ghost
1964

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950

A Hole of My Own Making
1955

Tonari no yome
1956

Called to the Stand
1956

Madam
1957

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
1964

Dynamite Don-Don
1978

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980

Karate Wars
1978

The Return of Godzilla
1984

Stray Sheep
1955

New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970

Downtown Blues
1968

The Barefoot Girl
1957

Lunar Eclipse
1956

Black Thief
1964

The Bad Guy Blues
1969

King of the Night Life
1970

The Poem of the Blue Star
1960

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973

Father of the Kamikaze
1974

Devil's Flute
1979

Tokyo Knights
1961

Samurai Geisha
1969

Red Peony Gambler
1968

Organized Violence II
1967

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989

The Third Shadow Warrior
1963

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972

Yakuza Graveyard
1976

Dissolution Rites
1967

300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
1975

Vendetta of a Samurai
1952

Portrait of Chieko
1967

Shogun's Samurai
1978

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961

Down with The Big Boss
1979

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967

Shimane Prison Riot
1975

The Biggest Gamble
1969

Rub Out the Past
1966

The Black Cat
1965

Karate Cop 2
1983

The Plateau Man
1961

Hot Springs Geisha
1968

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
1973

The Shogun Assassins
1979

Convicted Woman
1966

Gambler's World
1967

The Hard Core Criminal
1973

Turtle Geisha
1972

Seven Gamblers
1966

Faraway Tomorrow
1979

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
1967

Quick Draw Joe
1961

The Revenge and the Death
1963

Till We Meet Again
1955

That Wonderful Guy
1958

Thugs of Shinjuku
1970

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
1968

Duel at Fort Ezo
1970

Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1979

The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961

The Praying Man
1959

Forever, My Love
1958

The Lost Diamond
1960

Postwar Secrets
1970

The Pledge
1972

Big Time Gambling Boss
1968

Love Eternal
1966

Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971

Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959

The Flower and the Sword
1964

Hungry Soul
1956

Okinawa no Tami
1956

Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1964

Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1972

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1978

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
1975

Hungry Soul, Part II
1956

Giant Rumble
1964

Youth of the Beast
1963

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972

Cops vs. Thugs
1975

New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976

Floating Clouds
1955

Surgical Designs in Flames
1986

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970

Check
1991

Friendship of Jazz
1959

Wind and waves of the South
1961

Itsuko to sono haha
1954

Red-Light Bases
1953

A Yakuza Goes Home
1970

Japan's Don
1977

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
1964

The Great Shogunate Battle
1991

Gyakukōsen
1956

The Rambler Rides Again
1960

Troubleman Laughs and Kills
1979

The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1961

Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955

Dianas of the Campus
1966

Yakuza Vassal
1966

The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971

At the End of the Clouds
1953

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967

The Law's Bloody Wounds
1960

The Fatal Raid
1969

Violence
1952

Student Double Suicide
1954

A Drop of Grease
1966

Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1966

The Last Loyalty Offering
1967

The Echo of Love
1959

Merciless Bullet
1959

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958

Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972

Color
1965

Killer of Seven
1967

Kawaii Onna
1959

The Awakening
1957

Wakai toppū
1960

Wakai hito-tachi
1954

The Man Who Became The Don
1991

The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
1965

Diamonds of the Andes
1968

The Detective Journey
1980

Portrait of Chieko
1967

Scoundrel
1968

An Angel is Chasing Me
1961

We Live Today
1959

Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964

アッと驚く為五郎
1970

Ningyō no uta
1959

Get Over Her
1959

Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966

Under the Stars of Singapore
1967

Escape Man
1967

でかんしょ風来坊
1961

Kusa Moeru
1979

Shadow Warriors
1980

Shōgun
1980

Unified Shadows
1975

Father and Son Hawk
1994