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
Known For
Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for many people. A masterpiece of historical drama, full of breathtaking thrills and action.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Shadow Warriors
Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. Chiba played different ninja characters in each series. In the first series he played Hattori Hanzō III, in second one he played Tsuge Shinpachi, in the third one he played Tarao Hanzō, in the fourth series and in Bakumatsu Hen, he played Hattori Hanzō XV. In the 2003 direct-to-DVD series Shin Kage no Gundan he played Hattori Hanzō I.
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Shōgun
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Black Thief
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Filmography
as Tennoji
as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
as Chuichi Nagumo
as Ishido
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Sakai Tadakiyo
as Hayashi Razan
as Actor
as Emma Daio
as Kokichi Asakura
as Taira no Kiyomori
as Kira
as Denjiro Hasimoto
as Head of Mizoguchi City
as Hideyoshi Hirayama
as Hirano
as Shoji Taguchi
as Chief Akama
as Tajima
as Torao Yoshinari
as Masaichi Tomoyasu
as Warden
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Kakutarô Shinohara
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Senzo Ogata
as Hadano
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
as Narrator
as Yoshio Yamamori
as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
as Chief of Police
as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
as Osuga
as Suetsugu
as Suyama
as Tokuyasu
as Denbei
as Shinagawa
as Sojun
as Tasaburô Senba
as Ushimatsu Fujii
as Shurinosuke Asahina
as Head of Department
as Sawada
as Yamazaki
as Itagaki
as Aoki
as Dôjin Hiki
as Matsui
as Unosuke
as Kenji Yamakoshi
as Honda Shinpachi
as Kawazu
as Sôichi Ozawa
as Inspector Kumagaya
as Kozo Haraguchi
as Kihei
as Mishima
as Katsumata
as Mishima
as Kirihara Gôchô
as Kyosuke Takita
as Akitsu
as Funakoshi
as Sawamura
as Shinichiro Kuraki
as Kawai
as Tachio Kinumaki
as Toru Sakyo, the critic
as Kosaku Mori
as Reiji Ajioka
as Reiji Ajioka
as Kido
as Sayama
as Akira Mimura
as Kihei Hirato
as Tokuji Funabashi
as Sugio Kawanabe
as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
as Kashima