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Ken Kaneko
ActorBorn October 19, 1976 (48 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.
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 (TV Series) · as Shima Mitsuo |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Doubles (2013) (TV Series) · as Osaki Katsuya |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Strawberry Night · as Yoshinori Kawakami |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Yae's Sakura (TV Series) · as Yoshikatsu Tokugawa |
| 2012 | I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective - (TV Series) |
| 2010 | SPEC: Birth (TV Series) · as Haruki Gokitani |
| 2009 | Gokusen: The Movie · as Tetsu Asakura |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | The Pride of the Temp (TV Series) · as 土屋 |
| 2006 | Snakes & Lizards (TV Series) · as Zao |
| 2006 | Homicide Team 9 (TV Series) · as Yuichiro Kashiwagi |
| 2004 | I Hate Christmas (TV Series) · as Kihara Kensuke |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Gokusen (TV Series) · as Tetsu Asakura |
| 2001 | Watashi wo ryokan ni tsuretette (TV Series) · as Yoshiyuki Chiba |
| 2001 | Kabachitare (TV Series) · as Makoto Nashimoto |
| 1999 | Ice World (TV Series) · as Sakota Shogo |
| 1999 | Himitsu · as Fumio Kajikawa |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Days (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Kids Return · as Masaru |
| 1995 | The Girl of Silence · as Shizuo |
| 1995 | The Files of Young Kindaichi (TV Series) · as Tatsuyuki Hiyama |