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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 23, 1923
Died
September 16, 2010
Place of Birth
Gunma, Japan
Also Known As
- Кэйдзю Кобаяси
Keiju Kobayashi
1.5 Popularity
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
Known For
10.0
Prime Minister Mitamura
Godzilla Resurrection
2018
1.0
Narrator
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
2005
1.0
平松
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
2003
8.0
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
2002
0.0
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
2002
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Inspector Muta
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
2001
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Kenshiro Ooi
One Summer's Day
1999
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The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
1998
5.5
Kamijo
To Love
1997
7.9
Shiro Nishi (voice)
Whisper of the Heart
1995
Credits
Godzilla Resurrection
as Prime Minister Mitamura
2018
10.0
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
as Narrator
2005
1.0
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
as 平松
2003
1.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
as Self
2002
8.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
as Self
2002
0.0
🎬
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
as Inspector Muta
2001
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One Summer's Day
as Kenshiro Ooi
1999
0.0
🎬
The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
1998
0.0
To Love
as Kamijo
1997
5.5
Whisper of the Heart
as Shiro Nishi (voice)
1995
7.9
Karin
as 小森弥之助
1993
0.0
Tasmania Story
1990
9.0
Yawara!
as Jigoro inokuma
1989
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弁護士朝日岳之助
1988
0.0
A Taxing Woman
as Ryoko's Boss
1987
6.8
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
1986
0.0
Tree Without Leaves
as Hatsu-rojin
1986
7.8
For Business
as Mihara
1986
0.0
Godzilla 1985
as Prime Minister Mitamura
1985
6.8
Waves of Spring
1985
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The Return of Godzilla
as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
1984
7.2
L・O・V・I・N・G
1983
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松田聖子のはじめての情事
1983
0.0
Okinawan Boys
1983
0.0
Tuesday Suspense Theater
1981
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The Imperial Navy
as Isoroku Yamamoto
1981
6.3
White Love
as Keisuke Uemura
1979
5.0
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
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Mount Hakkoda
1977
6.4
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1976
0.0
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
as Taira no Yoshimasa
1976
9.0
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975
7.7
Tidal Wave
as Dr. Tadokoro
1975
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Submersion of Japan
as Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
1974
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Japan Sinks
as 田所雄介博士
1974
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Submersion of Japan
as Dr. Tadokoro
1973
6.7
Pieces of Autumn
1973
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
as Tokuhei Kyojima
1972
0.0
I Hear the Whistle
as Takashi Sugimoto
1971
0.0
The Battle of Okinawa
as General Ushijima
1971
7.5
幻の殺意
1971
0.0
The Militarists
as Premier Hideki Tojo
1970
8.0
The Ambitious
as Yoshinosuke Saigo
1970
7.2
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Toshizo Hijikata
1969
6.8
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as Tomizô Funakoshi
1969
0.0
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1969
0.0
Young Challengers
as Junpei Namikawa
1968
0.0
Judge and Jeopardy
as Hiroshi Masaki
1968
0.0
Japan's Longest Day
as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
1967
7.1
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
as Shingo Kimura
1967
0.0
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
as Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
1967
0.0
Challenge for Glory
1966
0.0
The Daphne
as Ooka (Umeko's husband)
1966
0.0
Five Gents on the Spot
as Keigo Kojima
1966
0.0
The Thin Line
as Isao Tashiro
1966
7.3
A Company President's Life Story
as Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
1966
0.0
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
0.0
Beast Alley
as Detective Hisatsune
1965
7.0
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
1965
0.0
Samurai Assassin
as Einosuke Kurihara
1965
7.3
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965
0.0
Could I But Live
1964
0.0
こんにちは赤ちゃん
as Keisuke Yomoyama
1964
10.0
3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964
0.0
Hail the 3 Gents
1964
0.0
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as Eburi Toshimaru
1963
6.1
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
as Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
1963
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Company President Travels Abroad
as Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
1963
0.0
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
as Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
1963
0.0
Pressure of Guilt
1963
7.0
Travel Stories of a Company President
1963
0.0
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1962
0.0
Born in Sin
1962
0.0
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My Hobo
as Junpei Shishido
1962
0.0
Chûshingura
as Awajinokami Wakisake
1962
7.3
A Wanderer's Notebook
as Fujiyama
1962
7.2
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
1962
0.0
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1962
5.8
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
0.0
Mother Country
1962
6.5
女難コースを突破せよ
1962
0.0
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
0.0
The Wiser Age
as Jiro Ishikawa
1962
7.3
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
0.0
Sanjuro
as The Spy
1962
7.9
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
1961
0.0
The End of Summer
as Hisao
1961
7.5
Snow in the South Seas
1961
0.0
Acchan no bebi gyangu
1961
0.0
Playboy President: Part II
as Takeshi Kuwabara
1961
0.0
Playboy President
as Kuwabara Takeshi
1961
0.0
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
1961
0.0
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
0.0
Shusse kōsu ni shinro o tore
1961
0.0
Happiness of Us Alone
as Michio Katayama
1961
9.0
The Masterless 47
as Heitaro Teraoka
1960
0.0
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960
0.0
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Namikichi Yashiro
1960
0.0
The Storm of the Pacific
1960
5.6
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
as Namiyoshi Yashiro
1960
0.0
The Lost Alibi
as Teiichiro Ishino
1960
5.2
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
as Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
1960
0.0
New Third-Class Executive
as Namiyoshi Yashiro
1959
0.0
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
1959
0.0
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
1959
0.0
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
0.0
The Naked General
1958
0.0
Summer Clouds
as Hatsuji
1958
7.5
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Officer Furuyama
1958
0.0
Little Peach
as Tayama
1958
5.8
Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Kitahachi Kitariya
1958
0.0
The Third President
1958
0.0
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1958
0.0
Assistant President
1958
0.0
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
as Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
1957
0.0
Price of Beauty
1957
0.0
Ôban
as Policeman
1957
0.0
Three Generations of Company Presidents
1956
0.0
A Wife's Heart
as Shinji
1956
6.8
Night School
as Night time teacher
1956
0.0
Settlement of Love
as Takeuchi
1956
0.0
The President Talks Bank
1956
0.0
Sudden Rain
as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
1956
6.6
The President's Boss
1956
0.0
The First Kiss
1955
6.3
Life's Simple Pleasures
1955
0.0
Nonki saiban
1955
0.0
Here Is a Spring
1955
7.0
Student Double Suicide
1954
0.0
Zoku botchan shain
1954
0.0
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
1954
0.0
Red-Light Bases
as School Teacher Uenishi
1953
0.0
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Heima Sakamoto
1953
0.0
The Eagle of the Pacific
as Staff Officer (uncredited)
1953
7.8
Girls in the Orchard
1953
0.0
Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953
0.0
Adolescence Part II
as (uncredited)
1953
0.0
Their Father's Wife
1953
0.0
Mr. Pu
1953
6.5
Husband and Wife
as Shigekichi Hayakawa
1953
6.6
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as Drunken man A
1953
6.0
恐妻時代
as Shinichi Utsumi
1952
0.0
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
7.8
Dimple of Tokyo
as Policeman
1952
0.0
Love's Cheerleader
as Mr. Gan
1952
0.0
Third Class Executives
as Wakahara
1952
0.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
0.0
Mr. Lucky
as 若原俊平
1952
0.0
Repast
as Shinzo Murata
1951
7.6
のど自慢三羽烏
1951
0.0
Tsuki yori no haha
as Kenji
1951
0.0
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
0.0
Clothes of Deception
as Kōji
1951
6.5
Resurrection
as Kunihiko Murai
1950
0.0
Mado Kara Tobidase
as Yûji Tokuyama
1950
0.0
The Rainbow Man
as Ryôsuke Akashi
1949
6.7
The Dead Beauty Incident
1948
0.0
Music's Twenty Doors
1948
0.0
Diary of a Nurse
1947
0.0
The Hopeful Family
1947
0.0
The Man From Chungking
as 中原精一
1943
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The Tiger of Malaya
as Hassan
1943
0.0
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
1942
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