Keiju Kobayashi
Acting • Born 1923-11-23 – Died 2010-09-16
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
193 credits
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
Sanjuro
Movie • 1962
The Spy
The End of Summer
Movie • 1961
Hisao
Whisper of the Heart
Movie • 1995
Shiro Nishi (voice)
Love's Cheerleader
Movie • 1952
Mr. Gan
Chûshingura
Movie • 1962
Awajinokami Wakisake
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
Movie • 1962
恐妻時代
Movie • 1952
Shinichi Utsumi
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Movie • 1953
Heima Sakamoto
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Movie • 1969
Toshizo Hijikata
Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
Movie • 1962
Repast
Movie • 1951
Shinzo Murata
Shimizu Port Salaryman
Movie • 1962
Godzilla 1985
Movie • 1985
Prime Minister Mitamura
To Love
Movie • 1997
Kamijo
Third Class Executives
Movie • 1952
Wakahara
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Movie • 1963
Eburi Toshimaru
Ôban
Movie • 1957
Policeman
Samurai Assassin
Movie • 1965
Einosuke Kurihara
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Movie • 1958
Kitahachi Kitariya
Submersion of Japan
Movie • 1973
Dr. Tadokoro
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Movie • 1969
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Movie • 1969
Tomizô Funakoshi
The Storm of the Pacific
Movie • 1960
Mount Hakkoda
Movie • 1977
Master Fencer Sees the World
Movie • 1960
Tree Without Leaves
Movie • 1986
Hatsu-rojin
The Battle of Okinawa
Movie • 1971
General Ushijima
Summer Clouds
Movie • 1958
Hatsuji
Sudden Rain
Movie • 1956
Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
The Stranger Within a Woman
Movie • 1966
Isao Tashiro
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
Movie • 1962
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
For Business
Movie • 1986
Mihara
Judge and Jeopardy
Movie • 1968
Hiroshi Masaki
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Movie • 1965
The Man From Chungking
Movie • 1943
中原精一
The Ambitious
Movie • 1970
Yoshinosuke Saigo
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Movie • 1977
Settlement of Love
Movie • 1956
Takeuchi
The Masterless 47
Movie • 1960
Heitaro Teraoka
The Daughters of the Saotome Family
Movie • 1962
Maboroshi no Satsui
Movie • 1971
のど自慢三羽烏
Movie • 1951
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
Movie • 2003
平松
The Rainbow Man
Movie • 1949
Ryôsuke Akashi
Eternity of Love
Movie • 1961
One Summer's Day
Movie • 1999
Kenshiro Ooi
The Imperial Navy
Movie • 1981
Isoroku Yamamoto
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
Shinji
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Movie • 1962
Tasmania Story
Movie • 1990
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Shigekichi Hayakawa
3 Gents in the Snow Country
Movie • 1964
Happiness of Us Alone
Movie • 1961
Michio Katayama
Life's Simple Pleasures
Movie • 1955
Little Peach
Movie • 1958
Tayama
A Wanderer's Notebook
Movie • 1962
Fujiyama
My Hobo
Movie • 1962
Junpei Shishido
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Movie • 1972
Tokuhei Kyojima
White Love
Movie • 1979
Keisuke Uemura
Here Is a Spring
Movie • 1955
Diary of a Nurse
Movie • 1947
The Militarists
Movie • 1970
Premier Hideki Tojo
Dimple of Tokyo
Movie • 1952
Policeman
The Wiser Age
Movie • 1962
Jiro Ishikawa
The First Kiss
Movie • 1955
The Return of Godzilla
Movie • 1984
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
The Lost Alibi
Movie • 1960
Teiichiro Ishino
Mr. Pu
Movie • 1953
Nonki saiban
Movie • 1955
Yawara!
Movie • 1989
Jigoro inokuma
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Movie • 1986
Hello, Baby
Movie • 1964
Keisuke Yomoyama
I Hear the Whistle
Movie • 1971
Takashi Sugimoto
Snow in the South Seas
Movie • 1961
Mr. Lucky
Movie • 1952
若原俊平
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Movie • 1961
Tsuki yori no haha
Movie • 1951
Kenji
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Movie • 2002
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
Movie • 2002
Self
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Movie • 1976
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Movie • 1958
Pressure of Guilt
Movie • 1963
Beast Alley
Movie • 1965
Detective Hisatsune
Born in Sin
Movie • 1962
L・O・V・I・N・G
Movie • 1983
Price of Beauty
Movie • 1957
Tokyo Sweetheart
Movie • 1952
The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
Movie • 1998
Challenge for Glory
Movie • 1966
Okinawan Boys
Movie • 1983
The Naked General
Movie • 1958
Adolescence Part II
Movie • 1953
(uncredited)
Young Challengers
Movie • 1968
Junpei Namikawa
The Daphne
Movie • 1966
Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Night School
Movie • 1956
Night time teacher
Clothes of Deception
Movie • 1951
Kōji
The Masterless 47 – Part II
Movie • 1961
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
Movie • 2001
Inspector Muta
The Tiger of Malaya
Movie • 1943
Hassan
Mother Country
Movie • 1962
A Taxing Woman
Movie • 1987
Ryoko's Boss
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Movie • 1962
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Movie • 1975
The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie • 1953
Staff Officer (uncredited)
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie • 1953
Drunken man A
Their Father's Wife
Movie • 1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Movie • 1953
Red-Light Bases
Movie • 1953
School Teacher Uenishi
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
Movie • 2005
Narrator
The President's Boss
Movie • 1956
The President Talks Bank
Movie • 1956
Assistant President
Movie • 1958
Hail the 3 Gents
Movie • 1964
Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)
Girls in the Orchard
Movie • 1953
Resurrection
Movie • 1950
Kunihiko Murai
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Movie • 1951
Three Generations of Company Presidents
Movie • 1956
Five Gents' Trick Book
Movie • 1965
Could I But Live
Movie • 1964
The Third President
Movie • 1958
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Movie • 1959
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
Movie • 1959
The Hopeful Family
Movie • 1947
Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Mado Kara Tobidase
Movie • 1950
Yûji Tokuyama
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
Movie • 1942
Student Double Suicide
Movie • 1954
The Dead Beauty Incident
Movie • 1948
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Movie • 1954
Music's Twenty Doors
Movie • 1948
Taking a Success Course
Movie • 1961
Tidal Wave
Movie • 1975
Dr. Tadokoro
Godzilla Resurrection
Movie • 2018
Prime Minister Mitamura
Zoku botchan shain
Movie • 1954
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
Movie • 1957
Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
Travel Stories of a Company President
Movie • 1963
New Third-Class Executive
Movie • 1959
Namiyoshi Yashiro
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Movie • 1960
Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Movie • 1960
Namiyoshi Yashiro
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Movie • 1960
Namikichi Yashiro
Playboy President
Movie • 1961
Kuwabara Takeshi
Playboy President: Part II
Movie • 1961
Takeshi Kuwabara
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
Movie • 1963
Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
Company President Travels Abroad
Movie • 1963
Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
Movie • 1963
Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Movie • 1965
Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
A Company President's Life Story
Movie • 1966
Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
Five Gents on the Spot
Movie • 1966
Keigo Kojima
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Movie • 1958
Officer Furuyama
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
Movie • 1967
Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
Movie • 1967
Shingo Kimura
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
Movie • 1968
Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
Movie • 1968
Kenichi Honjō
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Movie • 1969
Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Movie • 1969
Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Movie • 1970
Hisashi Tamba
Five Gents and a Kuniang
Movie • 1970
Tanba Hisashi
Vengeance for Sale
Movie • 2002
Undertaker
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
Movie • 1971
Shinsuke Narada
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
Movie • 1971
Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Goichi Yufune
Ken
Movie • 1964
Eri Itami
Atarashii Sebiro
Movie • 1957
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
Movie • 1960
Isshin Tarō
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
Movie • 1960
Isshin Tarō
We Are Salarymen
Movie • 1963
Head of Sales, Seihō Electric
Bringing Up Husbands
Movie • 1959
Walleyed Nippon
Movie • 1963
Narrator & Matchmaker
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie • 1958
土曜日の天使
Movie • 1954
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
Movie • 1958
Hideyoshi Kinoshita
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
Movie • 1957
Kinoshita Hideyoshi
Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman
Movie • 1948
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Movie • 1957
Kinoshita Hideyoshi
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Movie • 1956
Miki
Young Love Conquers All
Movie • 1955
Schooldays
Movie • 1957
Yamaoka
We Will Remember
Movie • 1965
The Three Musketeers of Japan: Adieu, Tokyo!
Movie • 1972
The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi
Movie • 1973
Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1964
1st Sin & 7th Sin
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
Movie • 1961
Tuesday Suspense Theater
TV • 1981
松田聖子のはじめての情事
TV • 1983
Karin
TV • 1993
小森弥之助
Submersion of Japan
TV • 1974
Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
Japan Sinks
TV • 1974
田所雄介博士
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
TV • 1976
Taira no Yoshimasa
Waves of Spring
TV • 1985
弁護士朝日岳之助
TV • 1988
Pieces of Autumn
TV • 1973