Keiju Kobayashi
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
Whisper of the Heart
as Shiro Nishi (voice)Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices...
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The Imperial Navy
as Isoroku YamamotoA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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Sanjuro
as The SpyToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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The Return of Godzilla
as Prime Minister Seiki MitamuraAfter a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than...
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Submersion of Japan
as Dr. TadokoroA team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands...
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Godzilla 1985
as Prime Minister MitamuraOriginally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...
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The End of Summer
as HisaoThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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47 Ronin
as Awajinokami WakisakeAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Samurai Assassin
as Einosuke KuriharaJapan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...
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A Taxing Woman
as Ryoko's BossIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Chamberlain Yoshihiro TokugawaFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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The Storm of the Pacific
as uncreditedLt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as General UshijimaThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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A Wife's Heart
as ShinjiKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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Summer Clouds
as HatsujiA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
as uncreditedTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as FujiyamaConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Sudden Rain
as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Repast
as Shinzo MurataMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
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Young Challengers
as Junpei NamikawaA story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow,...
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Mount Hakkoda
as uncreditedTwo infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the...
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Beast Alley
as uncredited"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...
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The Wiser Age
as Jiro IshikawaDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as Eburi ToshimaruA salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into...
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The Lost Alibi
as Teiichiro IshinoSuspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised...
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Tasmania Story
as uncreditedEiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...
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Yawara!
as Jigoro inokumaYawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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The Thin Line
as Isao TashiroTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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Tree Without Leaves
as Hatsu-rojinHaru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Kitahachi KitariyaTwo residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
as Staff Officer (uncredited)Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Toshizo HijikataNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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Settlement of Love
as TakeuchiLiving in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child....
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The Rainbow Man
as Ryôsuke AkashiWhen a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her...
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Happiness of Us Alone
as Michio KatayamaThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
as uncreditedA family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of...
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
as uncreditedDomestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki...
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Dimple of Tokyo
as PolicemanBuntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life....
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Little Peach
as TayamaAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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The Gentlemen’s Alliance
as uncreditedEtsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets...
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One Summer's Day
as Kenshiro OoiVeteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his...
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The Naked General
as uncreditedA film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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Price of Beauty
as uncreditedMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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The President Talks Bank
as uncreditedThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
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Nonki saiban
as uncreditedA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected...
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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The Daphne
as Ooka (Umeko's husband)Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
as uncreditedIn a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was...
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
as Tokuhei KyojimaA comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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Red-Light Bases
as School Teacher UenishiStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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3 Dolls and Baby Gang
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as uncreditedFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Ambitious
as Yoshinosuke SaigoThe story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa...
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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The President's Boss
as uncreditedA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
as uncreditedComedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Master Fencer Sees the World
as uncreditedA historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the...
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To Love
as KamijoMitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets....
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White Love
as Keisuke UemuraKobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left...
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The Dead Beauty Incident
as uncreditedA dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi)...
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For Business
as MiharaTwo TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s...
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Challenge for Glory
as uncreditedA young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his...
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Ôban
as PolicemanA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
as NarratorAugust 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Husband and Wife
as Shigekichi HayakawaA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
as uncreditedA Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past....
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Born in Sin
as uncreditedA dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as Tomizô FunakoshiA crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang...
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The Tiger of Malaya
as HassanA band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
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Mado Kara Tobidase
as Yûji TokuyamaThe movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between...
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Judge and Jeopardy
as Hiroshi MasakiIt is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's...
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Adolescence Part II
as (uncredited)A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
as uncreditedA timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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I Hear the Whistle
as Takashi SugimotoTells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
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The Man From Chungking
as 中原精一Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
as uncreditedA masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that...
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Clothes of Deception
as KōjiThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
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Diary of a Nurse
as uncreditedRen Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's...
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Girls in the Orchard
as uncreditedGirls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with...
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Music's Twenty Doors
as uncreditedA love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater.
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as uncreditedYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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Love's Cheerleader
as Mr. GanDirectorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Heima SakamotoNatsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a...
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Karin
as 小森弥之助A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only...
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Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
as Taira no YoshimasaKaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels...
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Tuesday Suspense Theater
as uncredited"Tuesday Suspense Theater" was broadcast every Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ) on the Nippon...
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Submersion of Japan
as Dr. Yusuke TadokoroIn this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan....
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Japan Sinks
as 田所雄介博士Long-form adaptation of previous year's movie; due to a sudden tectonic shift, the country of...
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Pieces of Autumn
as uncreditedA drama that broke new ground with its realistic depiction of various problems within a very...
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