Nobuo Kaneko

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

Shadow Warriors

Sakai Tadakiyo

Shōgun

Ishido

Ikiru

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Escape Man

Kusa Moeru

Taira no Kiyomori

でかんしょ風来坊

Bōkyō no umi

Filmography

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

Year	TV Show	Role
1994	Father and Son Hawk
1980	Shadow Warriors	Sakai Tadakiyo
1980	Shōgun	Ishido
1979	Kusa Moeru	Taira no Kiyomori
1975	Unified Shadows