Ken Kaneko
Actor
October 19, 1976 (49 years)
Ken Kaneko is a Japanese actor, TV personality and former mixed martial artist.
Kaneko is best known for his role in the Takeshi Kitano film Kids Return (1996), in which he and Masanobu Ando portrayed a couple of high school dropouts trying to find purpose and direction in life. Kaneko is also notable for Himitsu (1999), Rescue Wings (2008) and Blade of the Immortal (2017). He was also a mixed martial artist in the Welterweight division and fought Charles Bennet in Pride FC Shockwave 2005.
Kaneko is best known for his role in the Takeshi Kitano film Kids Return (1996), in which he and Masanobu Ando portrayed a couple of high school dropouts trying to find purpose and direction in life. Kaneko is also notable for Himitsu (1999), Rescue Wings (2008) and Blade of the Immortal (2017). He was also a mixed martial artist in the Welterweight division and fought Charles Bennet in Pride FC Shockwave 2005.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin · as Cast |
| 2017 | Blade of the Immortal · as Hishiyasu Shido |
| 2016 | Iine! Iine! Iine! · as Cast |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Kurokochi · as Shima Mitsuo |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Castella · as Daikichi |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Doubles (2013) · as Osaki Katsuya |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Strawberry Night · as Yoshinori Kawakami |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Yae's Sakura · as Yoshikatsu Tokugawa |
| 2012 | |
| 2010 | SPEC: Birth · as Haruki Gokitani |
| 2009 | Gokusen: The Movie · as Tetsu Asakura |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | Shabake · as Cast |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | The Pride of the Temp · as 土屋 |
| 2006 | Snakes & Lizards · as Zao |
| 2006 | Homicide Team 9 · as Yuichiro Kashiwagi |
| 2004 | I Hate Christmas · as Kihara Kensuke |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Gokusen · as Tetsu Asakura |
| 2001 | Watashi wo ryokan ni tsuretette · as Yoshiyuki Chiba |
| 2001 | Kabachitare · as Makoto Nashimoto |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | The Inanimate World · as Sakota Shogo |
| 1999 | Himitsu · as Fumio Kajikawa |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1996 | Gimu to engi · as Takeshi Nagashima |
| 1996 | Kids Return · as Masaru |
| 1995 | Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear · as Ryohei Kawamatsu |
| 1995 | The Girl of Silence · as Shizuo |
| 1995 | The Files of Young Kindaichi · as Tatsuyuki Hiyama |
| 1996 | Making-of Kids Return · as Himself |