Keiju Kobayashi
Born: 1923-11-23 in Gunma, Japan
Died: 2010-09-16
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2018
- Godzilla Resurrection as Prime Minister Mitamura
2005
- Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells as Narrator
2003
2002
2001
1999
- One Summer's Day as Kenshiro Ooi
1998
1997
- To Love as Kamijo
1995
- Whisper of the Heart as Shiro Nishi (voice)
1993
- Karin as 小森弥之助
1990
1989
- Yawara! as Jigoro inokuma
1987
- A Taxing Woman as Ryoko's Boss
1986
- The Gentlemen’s Alliance
- Tree Without Leaves as Hatsu-rojin
- For Business as Mihara
1985
- Godzilla 1985 as Prime Minister Mitamura
- Waves of Spring
1984
- The Return of Godzilla as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
1981
- Tuesday Suspense Theater
- The Imperial Navy as Isoroku Yamamoto
1979
- White Love as Keisuke Uemura
1978
1976
- Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow as Taira no Yoshimasa
- Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1975
- Tora-san, the Intellectual
- Tidal Wave as Dr. Tadokoro
1974
- Submersion of Japan as Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
- Japan Sinks as 田所雄介博士
1973
1972
1971
- The Battle of Okinawa as General Ushijima
- I Hear the Whistle as Takashi Sugimoto
- First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff as Shinsuke Narada
- First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri as Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries
- Maboroshi no Satsui
1970
- The Ambitious as Yoshinosuke Saigo
- The Militarists as Premier Hideki Tojo
- Five Gents and a Kuniang as Tanba Hisashi
- Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Hisashi Tamba
1969
- Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Toshizo Hijikata
- The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club as Tomizô Funakoshi
- Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
1968
- Judge and Jeopardy as Hiroshi Masaki
- Young Challengers as Junpei Namikawa
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Kenichi Honjō
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Shingo Kimura
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
1966
- The Stranger Within a Woman as Isao Tashiro
- Five Gents on the Spot as Keigo Kojima
- A Company President's Life Story as Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
- Challenge for Glory
- The Daphne as Ooka (Umeko's husband)
1965
- Samurai Assassin as Einosuke Kurihara
- Beast Alley as Detective Hisatsune
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
- Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- We Will Remember
1964
- Ken as Eri Itami
- Hail the 3 Gents as Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)
- Could I But Live
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Hello, Baby as Keisuke Yomoyama
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 1st Sin & 7th Sin
1963
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
- Pressure of Guilt
- The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman as Eburi Toshimaru
- Company President Travels Abroad Part II as Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- Company President Travels Abroad as Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
- We Are Salarymen as Head of Sales, Seihō Electric
- Walleyed Nippon as Narrator & Matchmaker
1962
- Sanjuro as The Spy
- Chûshingura as Awajinokami Wakisake
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Born in Sin
- A Wanderer's Notebook as Fujiyama
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- The Wiser Age as Jiro Ishikawa
- Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- The Daughters of the Saotome Family
- Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
- My Hobo as Junpei Shishido
- Mother Country
1961
- The End of Summer as Hisao
- Happiness of Us Alone as Michio Katayama
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Snow in the South Seas
- Playboy President: Part II as Takeshi Kuwabara
- Eternity of Love
- Taking a Success Course
- Playboy President as Kuwabara Takeshi
- Acchan no bebi gyangu
- 3 Dolls and Baby Gang
- 七人の敵あり
1960
- The Storm of the Pacific
- The Lost Alibi as Teiichiro Ishino
- New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Namikichi Yashiro
- The Masterless 47 as Heitaro Teraoka
- New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Namiyoshi Yashiro
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
- Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Isshin Tarō
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Isshin Tarō
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
1959
1958
- Little Peach as Tayama
- Summer Clouds as Hatsuji
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Kitahachi Kitariya
- Assistant President
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Officer Furuyama
- The Third President
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- The Naked General
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hideyoshi Kinoshita
1957
- Ôban as Policeman
- Elephant from "Zoo Story" as Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
- Price of Beauty
- Atarashii Sebiro
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Kinoshita Hideyoshi
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Kinoshita Hideyoshi
- Schooldays as Yamaoka
1956
- A Wife's Heart as Shinji
- The President Talks Bank
- Sudden Rain as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
- Three Generations of Company Presidents
- The President's Boss
- Settlement of Love as Takeuchi
- Night School as Night time teacher
- A Brother and His Sister as Utsumi
- In Case of One Woman as Sankichi Hashimoto
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Miki
- Pure Love
1955
1954
1953
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited)
- Husband and Wife as Shigekichi Hayakawa
- Mr. Pu
- Youth of Heiji Senigata
- Girls in the Orchard
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as Drunken man A
- Red-Light Bases as School Teacher Uenishi
- Adolescence Part II as (uncredited)
- Their Father's Wife
- First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband as Heima Sakamoto
1952
- Tokyo Sweetheart
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Mr. Lucky as 若原俊平
- 恐妻時代 as Shinichi Utsumi
- Dimple of Tokyo as Policeman
- Love's Cheerleader as Mr. Gan
- Third Class Executives as Wakahara
- Zoku santō jūyaku
1951
- Repast as Shinzo Murata
- Tsuki yori no haha as Kenji
- Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
- Clothes of Deception as Kōji
- のど自慢三羽烏
1950
- Mado Kara Tobidase as Yûji Tokuyama
- Resurrection as Kunihiko Murai
1949
- The Rainbow Man as Ryôsuke Akashi
1943
- The Tiger of Malaya as Hassan
- The Man From Chungking as 中原精一