Keiju Kobayashi
Acting
Born November 23, 1923, Gunma, Japan
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
- 2018Godzilla Resurrection — Prime Minister Mitamura
- 2005Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells — Narrator
- 2003Take the 'A' Train, Someday — 平松
- 2002Vengeance for Sale — Undertaker
- 2001Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows. — Inspector Muta
- 1999One Summer's Day — Kenshiro Ooi
- 1998The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
- 1997To Love — Kamijo
- 1995Whisper of the Heart — Shiro Nishi (voice)
- Karin — 小森弥之助
- 1990Tasmania Story
- 1990The Inugami Family
- 1989Yawara! — Jigoro inokuma
- 1988The Wives of Rokumeikan
- 弁護士朝日岳之助
- 1987A Taxing Woman — Ryoko's Boss
- 1986For Business — Mihara
- 1986The Gentlemen’s Alliance
- 1986Tree Without Leaves — Hatsu-rojin
- 1985Godzilla 1985 — Prime Minister Mitamura
- Waves of Spring
- 1984The Return of Godzilla — Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
- 1983L・O・V・I・N・G
- 1983Okinawan Boys
- 松田聖子のはじめての情事
- 1982Baian Mayoibashi
- 1981The Imperial Navy — Isoroku Yamamoto
- Tuesday Suspense Theater
- 1979White Love — Keisuke Uemura
- 1978Afterglow
- 1977Mount Hakkoda
- 1977田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
- 1976Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
- Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow — Taira no Yoshimasa
- 1975Tidal Wave — Dr. Tadokoro
- 1975Tora-san, the Intellectual — 田所先生
- 1975Waga seishun no toki
- Japan Sinks — 田所雄介博士
- Submersion of Japan — Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
- Pieces of Autumn
- 1973Submersion of Japan — Dr. Tadokoro
- 1973The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi — Chugo Kuroda (Chu-san)
- 1972Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here — Tokuhei Kyojima
- 1972The Three Musketeers of Japan: Adieu, Tokyo! — Chugo Kuroda (Chu-san)
- 1971First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri — Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries
- 1971First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff — Shinsuke Narada
- 1971I Hear the Whistle — Takashi Sugimoto
- 1971Maboroshi no Satsui
- 1971The Battle of Okinawa — General Ushijima
- 1970Five Gents Fly to Taiwan — Hisashi Tamba
- 1970Five Gents and a Kuniang — Tanba Hisashi
- 1970The Ambitious — Yoshinosuke Saigo
- 1970The Militarists — Premier Hideki Tojo
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu — Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II — Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
- 1969Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- 1969Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor — Toshizo Hijikata
- 1969The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club — Tomizô Funakoshi
- 1968Five Gents and Karate Grandpa — Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
- 1968Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant — Kenichi Honjō
- 1968Judge and Jeopardy — Hiroshi Masaki
- 1968Young Challengers — Junpei Namikawa
- 1967Discover Japan with the 5 Gents — Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
- 1967Five Gents Prefer Geisha — Shingo Kimura
- 1967Japan's Longest Day — Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
- 1967Our Silent Love
- 1966A Company President's Life Story — Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
- 1966Challenge for Glory
- 1966Five Gents on the Spot — Keigo Kojima
- 1966King of the Raccoon Dogs
- 1966The Daphne — Ooka (Umeko's husband)
- 1966The Stranger Within a Woman — Isao Tashiro
- 1965Beast Alley — Detective Hisatsune
- 1965Five Gents' Trick Book
- 1965President's Ninja Trick Book Part II — Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
- 1965Raccoon Dog Leader
- 1965Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
- 1965Samurai Assassin — Einosuke Kurihara
- 1965We Will Remember
- 19643 Gents in the Snow Country
- 1964Could I But Live — Masayoshi Sakata
- 1964Hail the 3 Gents — Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)
- 1964Hello, Baby — Keisuke Yomoyama
- 1964Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins — 1st Sin & 7th Sin
- 1964I Am a Medical Examiner
- 1964Ken — Eri Itami
- 1964Thief on the Run
- 19633 Gents In Hawaii — Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
- 1963Aloha 3 Gents — Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
- 1963Pressure of Guilt
- 1963The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman — Eburi Toshimaru
- 1963Travel Stories of a Company President
- 1963Travel Stories of a Company President Part II — Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
- 1963Walleyed Nippon — Narrator & Matchmaker
- 1963We Are Salarymen — Head of Sales, Seihō Electric
- 1962A Wanderer's Notebook — Fujiyama
- 1962Born in Sin
- 1962Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
- 1962Chûshingura — Awajinokami Wakisake
- 1962Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- 1962Mother Country
- 1962My Hobo — Junpei Shishido
- 1962Sanjuro — The Spy
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- 1962The Daughters of the Saotome Family
- 1962The Wiser Age — Jiro Ishikawa
- 1962Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- 1962Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- 19613 Dolls and Baby Gang
- 1961Achan's Baby Gang
- 1961Eternity of Love
- 1961Happiness of Us Alone — Michio Katayama
- 1961Playboy President — Kuwabara Takeshi
- 1961Playboy President: Part II — Takeshi Kuwabara
- 1961Seven Enemies
- 1961Snow in the South Seas
- 1961Taking a Success Course
- 1961The End of Summer — Hisao
- 1961The Masterless 47 – Part II
- 1960Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
- 1960Master Fencer Sees the World
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller — Namiyoshi Yashiro
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Husband Education — Namikichi Yashiro
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking — Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
- 1960Respect, Flatter, and Love
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success — Isshin Tarō
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes — Isshin Tarō
- 1960The Lost Alibi — Teiichiro Ishino
- 1960The Masterless 47 — Heitaro Teraoka
- 1960The Storm of the Pacific
- 1959A Salaryman's Ten Commandments
- 1959Bringing Up Husbands
- 1959Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- 1959Fox and Raccoon — Goichi Yufune
- 1959New Third-Class Executive — Namiyoshi Yashiro
- 1959Samurai in the Office
- 1959Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- 1958Assistant President
- 1958Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 — Hideyoshi Kinoshita
- 1958Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring — Officer Furuyama
- 1958Holiday in Tokyo
- 1958Little Peach — Tayama
- 1958Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- 1958Summer Clouds — Hatsuji
- 1958The Naked General — Kiyoshi Yamashita
- 1958The Third President
- 1958Yaji and Kita on the Road — Kitahachi Kitariya
- 1958Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1957Atarashii Sebiro
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman — Kinoshita Hideyoshi
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 — Kinoshita Hideyoshi
- 1957Elephant from "Zoo Story" — Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
- 1957Price of Beauty
- 1957Schooldays — Yamaoka
- 1957Story of a Detective's Assistant — Heikurō
- 1957Story of a Detective's Assistant Sequel
- 1957The Luckiest Dai
- 1957The Surprising Legend of Jirocho: Jirocho's Family Feud
- 1957Ôban — Policeman
- 1956A Brother and His Sister — Utsumi
- 1956A Wife's Heart — Shinji
- 1956All Sold Out
- 1956Easy-Going Married Couple
- 1956Everyone's Sweetheart
- 1956Funny Fellows
- 1956In Case of One Woman — Sankichi Hashimoto
- 1956Newlywed of the First Section
- 1956Night School — Night time teacher
- 1956Pure Love
- 1956Settlement of Love — Takeuchi
- 1956Sudden Rain — Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
- 1956The President Talks Bank
- 1956The President's Boss
- 1956Three Generations of Company Presidents
- 1956Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl — Miki
- 1955Detour to Love — Tetsuo Iwatani
- 1955Here Is a Spring
- 1955Nonki saiban
- 1955Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
- 1955School Girls in Costume
- 1955The First Kiss — Seikichi
- 1955Young Love Conquers All
- 1954Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
- 1954Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
- 1954Student Double Suicide
- 1954Young Eyes
- 1954Zoku botchan shain
- 1953A Song of Little Men
- 1953Adolescence Part II — (uncredited)
- 1953Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
- 1953First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband — Heima Sakamoto
- 1953Girls in the Orchard
- 1953Husband and Wife — Shigekichi Hayakawa
- 1953Mr. Pu
- 1953My Wonderful Yellow Car — Drunken man A
- 1953The Eagle of the Pacific — Staff Officer (uncredited)
- 1953The Red Light Military Base — School Teacher Uenishi
- 1953Their Father's Wife
- 1952Dimple of Tokyo — Policeman
- 1952Gunrō no machi
- 1952Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- 1952Love's Cheerleader — Mr. Gan
- 1952Mr. Lucky — 若原俊平
- 1952Third Class Executives — Wakahara
- 1952Tokyo Sweetheart
- 1952Yobiko hoshi
- 1952Zoku santō jūyaku
- 1952恐妻時代 — Shinichi Utsumi
- 1951Clothes of Deception — Kōji
- 1951Fire Department
- 1951Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
- 1951Nodo jiman sanbagarasu
- 1951Repast — Shinzo Murata
- 1951Saijoke no kyoen
- 1951Tsuki yori no haha — Kenji
- 1950Hatachi zengo
- 1950I Am Being Targeted
- 1950Mado Kara Tobidase — Yûji Tokuyama
- 1950Mitsurin no mehyō
- 1950Resurrection — Kunihiko Murai
- 1950Tetsuro no dankon
- 1949Doku bara
- 1949Hana no jitsugetsu
- 1949Kenji to onnakanshu
- 1949The Rainbow Man — Ryôsuke Akashi
- 1948Music's Twenty Doors
- 1948Oyabaka taishō
- 1948The Dead Beauty Incident
- 1948Unmei no koyomi
- 1948Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman
- 1947Diary of a Nurse
- 1947Odoriko monogatari
- 1947Someday Flowers Will Bloom
- 1947The Hopeful Family
- 1946Convent Bride
- 1946Kenrantaru fukushū
- 1946Kimi ka to omohite
- 1946The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
- 1944Thousand Spears of Kikuchi: Sydney Special Attack Unit
- 1943All-out Attack on Singapore — Private Kimura
- 1943The Man From Chungking — 中原精一
- 1943The Tiger of Malaya — Hassan
- 1942Horror of the Fifth Columnist
Appearances as themselves (2)
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' — Self
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' — Self