Nobuo Kaneko
Born in Taito, Tokyo, Japan — Mar 27 1923• Died Jan 20 1995
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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.
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Nobuo Kaneko's Credits
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Shōgun
Ishido
Kusa Moeru
Taira no Kiyomori
Ikiru
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Phoenix
Red Bud and White Flower
Shadow Warriors
Sakai Tadakiyo
The Return of Godzilla
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Unified Shadows
Youth of the Beast
Sôichi Ozawa
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Yoshio Yamamori
Japan's Don
Shoji Taguchi
The Imperial Navy
Chuichi Nagumo
Father and Son Hawk
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Yoshio Yamamori
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Yoshio Yamamori
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Yoshio Yamamori
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Kirihara Gôchô
Floating Clouds
The Fall of Ako Castle
Kira
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Hideyoshi Hirayama
Cops vs. Thugs
Masaichi Tomoyasu
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Yoshio Yamamori
The Hard Core Criminal
The Shogun Assassins
Hayashi Razan
The Inferno
Emma Daio
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Akama
Giant Rumble
Godzilla 1985
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
The Magic Serpent
Dôjin Hiki
Dynamite Don-Don
Denjiro Hasimoto
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Chief of Police
Shogun's Samurai
The Plateau Man
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Never Give Up
Head of Mizoguchi City
Till We Meet Again
Akira Mimura
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Nurse's Husband
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Shurinosuke Asahina
Organized Violence II
Head of Department
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Kokichi Asakura
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Yoshio Imazu - Warden
Night Drum
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Unosuke
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Yoshiyuki Kawashima
Hot Springs Geisha
Shinagawa
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Senzo Ogata
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Hirano
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Kansuke
Man Who Causes a Storm
Toru Sakyo, the critic
Scoundrel
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Devil's Flute
Human Torpedoes
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Down with The Big Boss
A Hole of My Own Making
At the End of the Clouds
Vacuum Zone
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
Red-Light Bases
Sugio Kawanabe
Tokyo Knights
Mishima
The Great Shogunate Battle
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Denbei
Wind and waves of the South
Kihei
Rub Out the Past
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Yoshio Yamamori
Red Peony Gambler
The Black Cat
Father of the Kamikaze
Intimidation
Kyosuke Takita
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Tokuyasu
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
The Detective Journey
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Sound of the Mountain
Shōwa Gokudōshi
Dissolution Rites
Itagaki
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Inspector Kumagaya
Turtle Geisha
The Rambling Guitarist
Akitsu
Thugs of Shinjuku
Hungry Soul, Part II
Reiji Ajioka
Rogue
Suyama
Duel at Fort Ezo
Vendetta of a Samurai
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Kozo Haraguchi
Student Double Suicide
Samurai Geisha
Osuga
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Kashima
Gyakukōsen
The Glamorous Ghost
Kenji Yamakoshi
The Wild Reporter
Funakoshi
Traces of Lead
Big Time Gambling Boss
Tasaburô Senba
The Biggest Gamble
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Chivalrous Life
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
Kakutarô Shinohara
Living Skeleton
Suetsugu
The Harbor of No Return
Standing Towards the Great Forest
Wakai toppū
Yakuza Vassal
The Law's Bloody Wounds
Red Handkerchief
Friendship of Jazz
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Hadano
We Live Today
Woman Boss
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Diamonds of the Andes
Whistling in the Darkness
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
The Man Who Became The Don
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Shimane Prison Riot
Torao Yoshinari
The Garden of Women
Kihei Hirato
The Awakening
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Surgical Designs in Flames
Faraway Tomorrow
Tonari no yome
Black Weapon
Last Round
Itsuko to sono haha
Tokuji Funabashi
The Fatal Raid
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Honda Shinpachi
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
The Lost Diamond
Voice Without a Shadow
Kawai
Under the Stars of Singapore
Get Over Her
Portrait of Chieko
Sawada
A Man Explodes
Stray Sheep
Haraguchi, the painter
Story of Japanese Bad Men
Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
The Age of Our Own
The Barefoot Girl
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Check
Tennoji
The Poem of the Blue Star
Cape Ashizuri
Wolves of the Night
The Revenge and the Death
Kawazu
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
The Experience
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Main Street in the Underworld
Escape Man
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Katsumata
Violence
Downtown Blues
An Angel is Chasing Me
The Flower and the Sword
The Pledge
Bōkyō no umi
Wakai hito-tachi
The Yakuza Awaits
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Cobra 2
Tajima
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Jūdan no arashi
The Worship of the Flesh
Denbei
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Sayama
Curse of the Blood
Sojun
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Merciless Bullet
Sawamura
でかんしょ風来坊
Forever, My Love
Tachio Kinumaki
The Last Loyalty Offering
The Third Shadow Warrior
Love Eternal
Aoki
Crimson pistol belt
Dianas of the Campus
Okinawa no Tami
A Yakuza Goes Home
Warm Current
Lunar Eclipse
Return of the Vagabond
The Echo of Love
Kawaii Onna
Postwar Secrets
The Bad Guy Blues
Flowering Maidens
Matsui
Karate Cop 2
King of the Night Life
Called to the Stand
Farewell to Southern Tosa
A Drop of Grease
Eight Hours of Terror
Kosaku Mori
Gambler's World
Ushimatsu Fujii
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
Seven Gamblers
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Kumagai
Black Thief
This Day's Life
Song of a Traveller
The Praying Man
Shinichiro Kuraki
Quick Draw Joe
Mishima
Ningyō no uta
Madam
Color
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Actor
Kokkai e ikô!
Enlisted Yakuza
Convicted Woman
Ai to shi no katami
Killer of Seven
Ryûri no kishi
Semi-Document: Eros No Joô
Narrator
Summer Storm
Kido
Hungry Soul
Reiji Ajioka
That Wonderful Guy
The Rambler Rides Again
アッと驚く為五郎
Karate Wars