Keiju Kobayashi
Age: 86 | From: Gunma, Japan
Person Details
Birthday: 1923-11-23 19:06:14
Death: 2010-09-16 19:06:14
Aliases: 小林桂樹
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Gunma, Japan
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 54
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiju Kobayashi (23 November 1923–16 September 2010) was a Japanese actor. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films made at Toho, where he worked alongside Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Kato, Norihei Miki, and others. There he helped define the popular image of the postwar salaryman. He also won many awards for his acting, including best actor awards at the Mainichi Film Awards for The Naked General in 1958 (where he played Kiyoshi Yamashita), for Kuroi gashū in 1960, and for The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman in 1963. Kobayashi appeared in films made by such notable directors as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kihachi Okamoto. He continued to give powerful performances after largely moving to television in the late 1960s. He died on 16 September 2010 of heart failure at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiju Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Most Famous Work
Submersion of Japan
(1974) Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
Whisper of the Heart
(1995) Shiro Nishi (voice)
The Return of Godzilla
(1984) Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Karin
(1993) 小森弥之助
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
(1976) Taira no Yoshimasa
Godzilla 1985
(1985) Prime Minister Mitamura
Japan Sinks
(1974) 田所雄介博士
Samurai Assassin
(1965) Einosuke KuriharaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Narrator | |
| 2003 | 平松 | |
| 2002 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2001 | Inspector Muta | |
| 1999 | Kenshiro Ooi | |
| 1998 | N/A | |
| 1997 | Kamijo | |
| 1995 | Shiro Nishi (voice) | |
| 1993 | 小森弥之助 | |
| 1990 | N/A | |
| 1989 | Jigoro inokuma | |
| 1987 | Ryoko's Boss | |
| 1986 | N/A | |
| Hatsu-rojin | ||
| Mihara | ||
| 1985 | Prime Minister Mitamura | |
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura | |
| 1983 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | ||
| 1979 | Keisuke Uemura | |
| 1977 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1976 | N/A | |
| Taira no Yoshimasa | ||
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1974 | Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro | |
| 田所雄介博士 | ||
| 1973 | Dr. Tadokoro | |
| 1971 | Takashi Sugimoto | |
| General Ushijima | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Premier Hideki Tojo | |
| Yoshinosuke Saigo | ||
| 1969 | Toshizo Hijikata | |
| Tomizô Funakoshi | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1968 | Junpei Namikawa | |
| Hiroshi Masaki | ||
| 1967 | Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Ooka (Umeko's husband) | ||
| Isao Tashiro | ||
| 1965 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Einosuke Kurihara | ||
| 1964 | N/A | |
| Keisuke Yomoyama | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1963 | Eburi Toshimaru | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | Junpei Shishido | |
| N/A | ||
| Awajinokami Wakisake | ||
| Fujiyama | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
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| N/A | ||
| Jiro Ishikawa | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Spy | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Hisao | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Michio Katayama | ||
| 1960 | Heitaro Teraoka | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Teiichiro Ishino | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Hatsuji | ||
| Tayama | ||
| Kitahachi Kitariya | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| Policeman | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
| Shinji | ||
| Night time teacher | ||
| Takeuchi | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | School Teacher Uenishi | |
| Heima Sakamoto | ||
| Staff Officer (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Shigekichi Hayakawa | ||
| Drunken man A | ||
| 1952 | Shinichi Utsumi | |
| N/A | ||
| Policeman | ||
| Mr. Gan | ||
| Wakahara | ||
| N/A | ||
| 若原俊平 | ||
| 1951 | Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother | |
| N/A | ||
| Kenji | ||
| N/A | ||
| Kōji | ||
| 1950 | Kunihiko Murai | |
| Yûji Tokuyama | ||
| 1949 | Ryôsuke Akashi | |
| 1947 | N/A | |
| 1943 | 中原精一 | |
| Hassan | ||
| 1942 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
