Nobuaki Kaneko

Nobuaki Kaneko (金子 ノブアキ, 金子 信昭^[1], Kaneko Nobuaki, born 5 June 1981)^[1] is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is nicknamed Akkun (あっくん) and N.K. He is a member of the rock band Rize. He is represented with Itoh Company and his label is Illchill. He graduated from Horikoshi High School.

Nobuaki Kaneko 金子 ノブアキ
Born	(1981-06-05) 5 June 1981 (age 41) Shimokitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan^[1]
Genres	Rock punk rock hardcore punk mixture rock alternative rock
Occupation(s)	Drummer
Instrument(s)	Drum kit
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Illchill

Nobuaki Kaneko
金子 ノブアキ
Born	(1981-06-05) 5 June 1981 (age 41)
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Horikoshi High School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1994^[1]–present
Agent	Itoh Company
Notable work	Sweet Sweet Ghost Crows Zero
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Television	Buzzer Beat Gunshi Kanbei Alice in Borderland (TV series) Smoking
Parents	Johnny Yoshinaga (father) Mari Kaneko (mother)
Relatives	KenKen (brother)
Website	Official website

Kaneko's father was Johnny Yoshinaga who was also a drummer, and his mother is singer Mari Kaneko.^[2] His younger brother is Kensuke Kaneko (known as KenKen) who is the bassist of Rize, and the brothers formed a rhythm section.

In November 2013, Kaneko married a non-celebrity woman who is a former model.^[2]

Discography

Bands

• Gonna Be Fun: a band formed in Ponkickies with Rie Tomosaka (vocals) and Takumi Samejima (guitar). On 1 November 1997, the band released a single CD "Birthday Party" with Toshiba EMI.
• Rize: three-piece band with Jesse (vocals) and his brother KenKen (bass).
• Dadas: Indie band with Daisuke Ide (vocal and guitar), Hidenaki Tanaka (bass), Kenji Akimine (guitar) and Kaneko (drums). They belong to Disillusion Recordings.
• Torcerse: a unit formed by Kaneko and KenKen in December 2006. Their main activities are live sessions etc.
• AA=: solo project by Takeshi Ueda (The Mad Capsule Markets). He participate in live tours with drum support.
• Lands
• Red Orca

Solo activities

He started solo activities since 2009.

Albums

	Year	Title
1st	2009	Orca
2nd	2014	Historia
3rd	2016	Fauve

Limited singles

Year	Title	Ref.
2015	"Lobo"	^[3]

Music videos

Director	Song title
Shiro Ushijima	"Uso to Saru
Yasuhiko Shimizu	"Historia
Unknown	"Orca

Tours

Year	Title	Ref.
2016	Nobuaki Kaneko Tour 2016 "Fauve"	^[4]

Related artists

• Rize
• Johnny Yoshinaga
• Mari Kaneko
• Char
• Dadas
• Def Tech – album recording, 2006 tour support
• Kazuya Yoshii – 2005 tour support
• Daisuke Ide
• Micro – 2008 tour support, composing participation
• AA= – 2009 tour support
• kayoko – 2004 cording
• Chara – 2008 album recording
• Buono! – 2009 recording
• Aggressive Dogs – 2009 "loud" recording
• The SanPaulo – 2009 live guest
• Trio Ohashi – 2013 album plugged recording

Equipment used

• Drum kits
  • Orange County Drum and Percussion (2000 to 2003)
  • Pearl

Filmography

TV dramas

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
1995	Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo	Chris Einstein	NTV
1997	Ichiban Taisetsu na Hito	Kazuhiko Yuuki	TBS
	Mokuyō no Kaidan	Yuji Saegusa	Fuji TV
1998	Glass Mask	Hiroshi Yoshizawa	TV Asahi
	Gekai-Sanshiro Natsume	Naoe Shimizu	TV Asahi
1999	Kawaii dakeja Dame kashira?	Oosawa	TV Asahi
	Border: Hanzai Shinri Sōsa File	Ryo Tsuzuki	YTV
	Naomi	Yusuke Kida	Fuji TV
	Tomie	Takashi	KTV
2003	Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Rize	TBS
	Hatsukoi.com		NTV
2004	Be-Bop High School	Shingo Maekawa	TBS
	With the Light		NTV
	Saboten Journey		NTV
2005	Be-Bop High School 2	Shingo Maekawa	TBS
2009	Buzzer Beat	Ryo Yoyogi	Fuji TV
	Samurai High School	Hiromi Motoyama	NTV
2011	Bartender	Ryuichi Kuzuhara	TV Asahi
	Ohisama	Koichi Kawahara	NHK	Asadora
	Piece Vote	Shoji Todo	NTV
	QP	Tom	NTV
2012	Perfect Son	Fuyuhiko Ikeda	NTV
	Vision -Koroshi ga Mieru Onna-	Kazumasa Asano	YTV
2013	Lady Joker	Yokichi Matsudo	Wowow
	Taberu Dake	Taku Yamamoto	TV Tokyo
	Tokyo Bandwagon	Noritoshi Hotta	NTV
2014	Gunshi Kanbei	Kushihashi Sakyō Susumu	NHK	Taiga drama
	Tales of the Unusual: Spring 2014: "Last Cinema"	Kazuhiko Iwasaki	Fuji TV
	Kū Neru Futari Sumu Futari	Shuichi Nonoyama (Nonchan)	NHK BS-P	Lead role
	Tamagawa Kuyakusho Of The Dead	Kenji Kouda	TV Tokyo
2015	Gakkō no Kaidan	Fumi Umeni	NTV
2016	Haburashi/Onna Tomodachi	Nadashi Natashina	NHK BS-P		^[5]
2017	Rakuen	Akio Sanwa	Wowow		^[6]
2018	Smoking	Haccho	TV Tokyo
2020	Yell	Tsuguhito Imamura	NHK	Asadora
	Followers	Yuruco	Netflix
	Alice in Borderland	Takeru Danma	Netflix
2020–21	Kirin ga Kuru	Sakuma Nobumori	NHK	Taiga drama
2021	Promise Cinderella	Kōya Kurose	TBS		^[7]

Other TV programmes

Year	Title	Network
1996	Ponkickies	Fuji TV
	It's Access	TV Tokyo
1997	Tokyo Himitsu Ongaku Tantei-dan	Sky PerfecTV!
1999	Beat Bang	TV Tokyo
2013	MTV VMAJ 2013	MTV

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2000	Sweet Sweet Ghost	Takuro Sakasaki
2001	Cross	Kohei Kazama
2009	Crows Zero II	Narumi Taiga
2010	Bandage	Ruge
	Shodo Girls	Hiroo Ikezawa
	Ōoku	Saburōza
2011	Manzai Gang
	Moteki	Daisuke Yamashita
	Shuffle	Kōhei Tobe (Raymond)	Lead role
	Hard Romantic-er	Takashi
2013	Strawberry Night	Suzuki Kobayashi
2014	Tokyo Nanmin	Atsushi Kodama
	The Snow White Murder Case	Satoshi Shinzan
2015	Shinjuku Swan	Yutaka Hayama
	Tokyo Mu Kokuseki Shōjo	Homeroom teacher
2017	Shinjuku Swan II	Yutaka Hayama
2018	Gangoose	Katō
2019	Diner			^[8]
	Manriki
2021	A Day with No Name
2023	Scroll			^[9]

DVD

Year	Title	Ref.
2016	Nagano "Ω"	^[10]

Advertisements

Year	Title	Ref.
1993	WOWOW Godzilla
1996	Otsuka Pharmaceutical "Hot Pot"
1997	Matsushita Denki Sangyō "Soi"
1998	Eisai "Chocola BB"
1999	Nintendo Mario Golf "Chichi no yorokobi", "Musuko no yorokobi"
	Suntory Natchan Oranage "Hatsukoi"
2000	Sony MiniDisc
2006	Pearl Drums
2013	Kirin Brewery Company "Smirnoff Ice"
2014	Wright Flyer Studios "Shōmetsu Toshi"
2015	Apparel brand "glamb"	^[11]

Radio

Year	Title	Network
2010	Rudo Nobuaki Kaneko no Desperado na Kinyōbi	NBS

Magazines

Year	Title
1998	Wink Up Bessatsu Edge Ways
2002	Rhythm & Drum Magazine "Drum de Eraku naru."
2003	R&R Newsmaker "Nobuaki Kaneko no Issho ni shinaide kure"
	Shūkan Famitsu "Super Kaneko Bros."
2009	Hanako "Hanako-san ni Sasageru Renai Dangi"
2010	Pia "Nobuaki Kaneko no Kihontekini wa"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2021	No More Heroes III	Composer	^[12]

References

1. "金子ノブアキ". Smart The Television (in Japanese). Kadokawa Corporation. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
2. "RIZE金子ノブアキ 一般女性と結婚". Sanspo.com (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun. 5 Mar 2014. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
3. "金子ノブアキ、新曲は清川あさみ作品インスパイア". Music Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 2 Sep 2015. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
4. "金子ノブアキ、幻想的でパワフルなステージが終幕！". Smart The Television (in Japanese). Kadokawa Corporation. 14 Aug 2016. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
5. Kaneko, Nobuaki (26 Jan 2016). "「はぶらし/女友だち」で熱演中の金子ノブアキを直撃". Smart The Television (Interview) (in Japanese). Kadokawa Corporation. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
6. "仲間由紀恵主演ドラマ『楽園』黒木瞳、夏帆、石坂浩二らキャスト発表". Oricon News (in Japanese). Oricon. 18 Oct 2016. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
7. "「プロミス・シンデレラ」人気芸者の菊乃役は松井玲奈、黒瀬洸也役は金子ノブアキ". Natalie (in Japanese). June 1, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
8. "Diner ダイナー". eiga.com. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
9. "スクロール". eiga.com. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
10. "永野の撮り下ろしDVD「Ω」に斎藤工、金子ノブアキが友情出演". Owarai Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 11 Mar 2017. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
11. "川上洋平＆金子ノブアキ、glamb春コレクションのモデルに". Music Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 6 Nov 2015. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
12. Romano, Sal (June 11, 2019). "No More Heroes III announced for Switch". Gematsu. Retrieved June 11, 2019.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Nobuaki Kaneko Official Blog (in Japanese)
• Tokushū: Ano Hito no totte oki Selection: Nobuaki Kaneko-san NHK Archives (in Japanese)