Emerging from the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1946, Nobuo Kaneko quickly transitioned to the screen with his debut in Urashimano Kōei the same year. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, he became renowned for his chameleon-like ability to inhabit both comic foils and ruthless yakuza figures, most famously portraying Yoshio Yamamori in Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity seri… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Ikiru 1952 The Return of Godzilla 1984 Shōgun 1980 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 ★ 7.7 Floating Clouds 1955
Series ★ 7.6 Shōgun 1980
Ishido ★ 7.4 Sound of the Mountain 1954
★ 7.3 Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1973
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 7.3 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 1973
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 7.2 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode 1974
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 7.2 Intimidation 1960
Kyosuke Takita ★ 7 Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy 1978
★ 7 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics 1974
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 7 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War 1973
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 7 A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era 1957
Denbei ★ 6.9 Youth of the Beast 1963
Sôichi Ozawa ★ 6.8 Godzilla 1985 1985
Home Affairs Minister Isomura ★ 6.8 The Fall of Ako Castle 1978
Kira ★ 6.6 Yakuza Graveyard 1976
Chief Akama ★ 6.5 Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! 1963
Inspector Kumagaya ★ 6.2 Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom 1973
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School ★ 6.1 Cops vs. Thugs 1975
Masaichi Tomoyasu ★ 6.1 Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess 1971
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner ★ 5.9 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 1974
Yoshio Yamamori ★ 5.8 Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell 1968
Tokuyasu ★ 5.6 Living Skeleton 1968
Suetsugu Start from another title 
