Portrait of Nobuo Kaneko

Nobuo Kaneko

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.

Born: March 27, 1923

Place of Birth: Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Filmography

1991
Check

as Tennoji

1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Yoshiyuki Kawashima

1985
Godzilla 1985

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1984
The Return of Godzilla

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1981
The Imperial Navy

as Chuichi Nagumo

1980
Shōgun

as Ishido

1980
Shadow Warriors

as Sakai Tadakiyo

1979
The Shogun Assassins

as Hayashi Razan

1979
The Inferno

as Emma Daio

1979
Kusa Moeru

as Taira no Kiyomori

1978
Dynamite Don-Don

as Denjiro Hasimoto

1978
Never Give Up

as Head of Mizoguchi City

1978
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

as Hideyoshi Hirayama

1977
Japan's Don

as Shoji Taguchi

1976
Yakuza Graveyard

as Chief Akama

1976
Cobra 2

as Tajima

1975
Shimane Prison Riot

as Torao Yoshinari

1975
Cops vs. Thugs

as Masaichi Tomoyasu

1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School

1973
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing

1972
1971
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner

1969
1968
Living Skeleton

as Suetsugu

1968
Rogue

as Suyama

1968
Hot Springs Geisha

as Shinagawa

1968
1968
Big Time Gambling Boss

as Tasaburô Senba

1967
Gambler's World

as Ushimatsu Fujii

1967
1967
Organized Violence II

as Head of Department

1967
1967
1967
1966
1966
The Magic Serpent

as Dôjin Hiki

1965
1965
1964
The Glamorous Ghost

as Kenji Yamakoshi

1964
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

as Honda Shinpachi

1963
Youth of the Beast

as Sôichi Ozawa

1961
1961
Quick Draw Joe

as Mishima

1961
Tokyo Knights

as Mishima

1960
Intimidation

as Kyosuke Takita

1959
The Wild Reporter

as Funakoshi

1959
Merciless Bullet

as Sawamura

1959
The Praying Man

as Shinichiro Kuraki

1958
Forever, My Love

as Tachio Kinumaki

1957
Man Who Causes a Storm

as Toru Sakyo, the critic

1957
Eight Hours of Terror

as Kosaku Mori

1956
Hungry Soul, Part II

as Reiji Ajioka

1956
Hungry Soul

as Reiji Ajioka

1956
1955
Till We Meet Again

as Akira Mimura

1954
The Garden of Women

as Kihei Hirato

1954
Itsuko to sono haha

as Tokuji Funabashi

1953
Red-Light Bases

as Sugio Kawanabe

1952
Ikiru

as Mitsuo, son of Kanji