Ken Kaneko
Acting
October 19, 1976
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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.
Movies
Kids Return
1996
Pride Shockwave 2005
2005
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
1997
Making-of Kids Return
1996
Rescue Wings
2008
Secret
1999
Blade of the Immortal
2017
Shin Gonin
2000
The Girl of Silence
1995
Bizan
2007
Strawberry Night
2013
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf
1996
Loser 2
2013
End of Our Own Real
1997
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
1998
Savage Chivalry
2013
Lion's Revenge
2013
Nagai Nagai Satsujin
2008
Loser
2013
セレンディップの奇跡
2007
TV Shows
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
Gokusen
2002
Haken no Hinkaku
2007
Snakes & Lizards
2006
SPEC ~ First Blood
2010
Homicide Team 9
2006
King of Sushi
1996
I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective -
2012
Twins Teacher
1993
Kurokouchi
2013
Ice World
1999
Lost Paradise
1997
Leaders
2014
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Days
1998
Cupid's Arrows
2000
I Hate Christmas
2004
Bring Me to the Hotel
2001
Happy Mania
1998
同窓会へようこそ～遅すぎた夏の帰郷～
1999