ACTOR
Nobuo Kaneko
Known for The Return of Godzilla · Godzilla 1985 · Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
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.
Snapshot 2026-10-16
- Born
- Mar 27, 1923
- Died
- Jan 20, 1995
- Birthplace
- Taito, Tokyo, Japan
- Known For
- 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.
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Known For
MOVIE
The Return of GodzillaHome Affairs Minister Isomura · 1984
★ 7.2
★ 7.2
MOVIE
Godzilla 1985Home Affairs Minister Isomura · 1985
★ 6.8
★ 6.8
MOVIE
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final EpisodeYoshio Yamamori · 1974
★ 7.2
★ 7.2
MOVIE
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy · 1978
★ 7.0
★ 7.0
MOVIE
The Fall of Ako CastleKira · 1978
★ 6.8
★ 6.8
MOVIE
Four Days of Snow and BloodYoshiyuki Kawashima · 1989
★ 7.3
★ 7.3
MOVIE
The Shogun AssassinsHayashi Razan · 1979
★ 5.4
★ 5.4
MOVIE
Japan's DonShoji Taguchi · 1977
★ 7.2
★ 7.2
Filmography
Movies
The Rainbow-Colored FlowerKashima
1950
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
IkiruMitsuo, son of Kanji
1952
Vacuum ZoneSergeant Kaneko
1952
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952
Violence
1952
At the End of the Clouds
1953
The Red Light Military BaseSugio Kawanabe
1953
Waseda UniversityHotani Nitarō
1953
Cape Ashizuri
1954
Itsuko to sono hahaTokuji Funabashi
1954
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Student Double Suicide
1954
The Garden of WomenKihei Hirato
1954
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
So Deep in My Heart
1955SS
Stray SheepHaraguchi, the painter
1955
Till We Meet AgainAkira Mimura
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-TreeSayama
1955
Women of Ginza
1955
Called to the StandProsecutor
1956
Gyakukōsen
1956
Hungry SoulReiji Ajioka
1956
Hungry Soul, Part IIReiji Ajioka
1956
Lovers
1956
Lunar Eclipse
1956
Okinawa no Tami
1956
PhoenixFuji director
1956
Summer StormKido
1956TN
Tonari no yome
1956
Wandering Shore
1956
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu EraDenbei
1957
Eight Hours of TerrorKosaku Mori
1957M
Madam
1957
Man Who Causes a StormToru Sakyo, the critic
1957
The Awakening
1957
The Barefoot Girl
1957
This Day's Life
1957
危険な関係
1957
Forever, My LoveTachio Kinumaki
1958
Night Drum
1958
That Wonderful Guy
1958
The Man Who Rode the TyphoonYuzo Hayata
1958
Tomorrow is Another Day
1958
UngaHitoshi Itami
1958
Voice Without a ShadowKawai
1958
Wolves of the Night
1958
A Man Explodes
1959
Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959
Friendship of Jazz
1959
Get Over HerYoshino
1959
Kawaii Onna
1959
Merciless BulletSawamura
1959
Ningyō no uta
1959
The Age of Our Own
1959
The Echo of Love
1959
The Praying ManShinichiro Kuraki
1959
The Rambling GuitaristAkitsu
1959
The Wild ReporterFunakoshi
1959
We Live Today
1959
IntimidationKyosuke Takita
1960
Return of the Vagabond
1960
The Law's Bloody Wounds
1960
The Lost Diamond
1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Wakai toppū
1960
Yakuza Song
1960
An Angel is Chasing Me
1961
Crimson Pistol
1961
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a LivingKatsumata
1961
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961
Million Dollar Smash-and-GrabKozo Haraguchi
1961
Quick Draw JoeMishima
1961
Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961
The Famous Wanderer
1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's PrayerKirihara Gôchô
1961
The Plateau Man
1961
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain PassKen
1961
Tokyo KnightsMishima
1961
Whistling in the Darkness
1961
Wind and waves of the SouthKihei
1961
Ai to shi no katami
1962
Bōkyō no umi
1962
Jūdan no arashi
1962
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962
Last Round
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Song of a Traveller
1962
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1962
Traces of Lead
1962
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and WomenKumagai
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!Inspector Kumagaya
1963
The Revenge and the DeathKawazu
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
1963
Youth of the BeastSôichi Ozawa
1963
Black Thief
1964
Black Weapon
1964
Call My Black DiceSakakibara (Boss of the Tokyo-based Sakakibara gang)
1964
Edo Crime Book: Black ClawsHonda Shinpachi
1964
Fight, Zatoichi, FightUnosuke
1964
Giant Rumble
1964
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's OfficeKansuke
1964
Main Street in the Underworld
1964
Red Handkerchief
1964
The Flower and the Sword
1964
The Glamorous GhostKenji Yamakoshi
1964
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1964
Chivalrous Life
1965
Color
1965
Expelled from the Kanto Mob
1965
Flowering MaidensMatsui
1965
The Black Cat
1965
The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
1965
A Drop of Grease
1966
Convicted Woman
1966
Dianas of the Campus
1966
Hi No Taiko
1966
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
Love EternalAoki
1966
New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City
1966
Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1966
Rub Out the Past
1966
Seven Gamblers
1966
The Harbor of No Return
1966
The Magic SerpentDôjin Hiki
1966
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1966
Warm Current
1966
Yakuza Vassal
1966
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967
Dissolution RitesItagaki
1967
Escape Man
1967
Gambler's WorldUshimatsu Fujii
1967
Killer of Seven
1967
Organized Violence IIHead of Department
1967
Portrait of ChiekoSawada
1967Portrait of ChiekoYamazaki
1967
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of TrapsShurinosuke Asahina
1967
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967
The Last Loyalty Offering
1967
Under the Stars of Singapore
1967
Big Time Gambling BossTasaburô Senba
1968
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968
Curse of the BloodSojun
1968
Diamonds of the Andes
1968
Downtown Blues
1968
Enlisted Yakuza
1968
Goké, Body Snatcher from HellTokuyasu
1968
Hot Springs GeishaShinagawa
1968
Human Torpedoes
1968
Living SkeletonSuetsugu
1968
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1968
Red Peony Gambler
1968
RogueSuyama
1968
Scoundrel
1968
The Worship of the FleshDenbei
1968
Samurai GeishaOsuga
1969
The Bad Guy Blues
1969
The Biggest Gamble
1969
The Fatal Raid
1969
The Yakuza Awaits
1969
A Yakuza Goes Home
1970
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970
Duel at Fort Ezo
1970
King of the Night Life
1970
Postwar Secrets
1970
The Experience
1970
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
Thugs of Shinjuku
1970
Woman Boss
1970
アッと驚く為五郎
1970
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to ConfessBoss Ohya, the nightclub owner
1971
Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry GangChief of Police
1972
The Pledge
1972
Turtle Geisha
1972
Battles Without Honor and HumanityYoshio Yamamori
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in HiroshimaYoshio Yamamori
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy WarYoshio Yamamori
1973
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973
Girl Boss Revenge: SukebanVisitor of the Shoe Polishing
1973
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform SchoolHadano
1973
Queen of ErosNarrator
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal ClassmatesKakutarô Shinohara
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law ClassroomShigeru Satô - The President of The School
1973
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug TriangleSenzo Ogata
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final EpisodeYoshio Yamamori
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police TacticsYoshio Yamamori
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
1974
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1Yoshio Yamamori
1974
The Rapacious JailbreakerYoshio Imazu - Warden
1974
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
1975
Cops vs. ThugsMasaichi Tomoyasu
1975
Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
1975
Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
1975
Shimane Prison RiotTorao Yoshinari
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975
Cobra 2Tajima
1976
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1976
Yakuza GraveyardChief Akama
1976
Japan's DonShoji Taguchi
1977
Japanese Godfather: AmbitionHirano
1977
Dynamite Don-DonDenjiro Hasimoto
1978
Japanese Godfather: ConclusionHideyoshi Hirayama
1978KW
Karate Wars
1978
Never Give UpHead of Mizoguchi City
1978
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
1978
The Fall of Ako CastleKira
1978
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and HumanityKokichi Asakura
1979
Devil's Flute
1979
Down with The Big Boss
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
The InfernoEmma Daio
1979
The Shogun AssassinsHayashi Razan
1979
Troubleman Laughs and KillsActor
1979
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete SagaYoshio Yamamori
1980NH
Nurse's Husband
1980
The Detective Journey
1980
The Imperial NavyChuichi Nagumo
1981
Karate Cop 2
1983
The Return of GodzillaHome Affairs Minister Isomura
1984
Godzilla 1985Home Affairs Minister Isomura
1985
Surgical Designs in Flames
1986
Four Days of Snow and BloodYoshiyuki Kawashima
1989
CheckTennoji
1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
The Man Who Became The Don
1991
Kokkai e ikô!
1993Television
Unified Shadows28 eps
1975
Kusa MoeruTaira no Kiyomori · 51 eps
1979
Shadow WarriorsSakai Tadakiyo · 27 eps
1980
ShōgunIshido · 5 eps
1980
Father and Son Hawk11 eps
1994Photos
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