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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.
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Known For
Whisper of the Heart
(1995)
Shiro Nishi (voice)
Godzilla 1985
(1985)
Prime Minister Mitamura
The Return of Godzilla
(1984)
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Sanjuro
(1962)
The Spy
The End of Summer
(1961)
Hisao
Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
47 Ronin
(1962)
Awajinokami Wakisake
Submersion of Japan
(1973)
Dr. Tadokoro
The Battle of Okinawa
(1971)
General Ushijima
Full Filmography
Acting
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
(1942)
The Tiger of Malaya
(1943)
Hassan
The Man From Chungking
(1943)
中原精一
The Hopeful Family
(1947)
The Rainbow Man
(1949)
Ryôsuke Akashi
Mado Kara Tobidase
(1950)
Yûji Tokuyama
Resurrection
(1950)
Kunihiko Murai
Repast
(1951)
Shinzo Murata
Clothes of Deception
(1951)
Kōji
のど自慢三羽烏
(1951)
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
(1951)
Tsuki yori no haha
(1951)
Kenji
Dimple of Tokyo
(1952)
Policeman
Mr. Lucky
(1952)
若原俊平
Love's Cheerleader
(1952)
Mr. Gan
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
(1952)
恐妻時代
(1952)
Shinichi Utsumi
Tokyo Sweetheart
(1952)
Third Class Executives
(1952)
Wakahara
Red-Light Bases
(1953)
School Teacher Uenishi
Girls in the Orchard
(1953)
Youth of Heiji Senigata
(1953)
Their Father's Wife
(1953)
Adolescence Part II
(1953)
(uncredited)
My Wonderful Yellow Car
(1953)
Drunken man A
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
(1953)
Heima Sakamoto
Eagle of the Pacific
(1953)
Staff Officer (uncredited)
Mr. Pu
(1953)
Husband and Wife
(1953)
Shigekichi Hayakawa
Here Is a Spring
(1955)
Life's Simple Pleasures
(1955)
The First Kiss
(1955)
A Wife's Heart
(1956)
Shinji
Settlement of Love
(1956)
Takeuchi
Sudden Rain
(1956)
Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
The President Talks Bank
(1956)
はりきり社長
(1956)
The President's Boss
(1956)
Night School
(1956)
Night time teacher
Ôban
(1957)
Policeman
Price of Beauty
(1957)
Yaji and Kita on the Road
(1958)
Kitahachi Kitariya
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
(1958)
Little Peach
(1958)
Tayama
Summer Clouds
(1958)
Hatsuji
The Third President
(1958)
Assistant President
(1958)
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
(1958)
The Naked General
(1958)
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
(1959)
社長太平記
(1959)
The Lost Alibi
(1960)
Teiichiro Ishino
The Masterless 47
(1960)
Heitaro Teraoka
The Storm of the Pacific
(1960)
Master Fencer Sees the World
(1960)
Happiness of Us Alone
(1961)
Michio Katayama
The Masterless 47 – Part II
(1961)
The End of Summer
(1961)
Hisao
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
(1961)
Acchan no bebi gyangu
(1961)
Snow in the South Seas
(1961)
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
(1961)
女難コースを突破せよ
(1962)
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
(1962)
Mother Country
(1962)
Born in Sin
(1962)
The Wiser Age
(1962)
Jiro Ishikawa
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
(1962)
A Wanderer's Notebook
(1962)
Fujiyama
My Hobo
(1962)
Junpei Shishido
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
(1962)
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
(1962)
続サラリーマン清水港
(1962)
47 Ronin
(1962)
Awajinokami Wakisake
Sanjuro
(1962)
The Spy
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
(1962)
Pressure of Guilt
(1963)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
(1963)
Eburi Toshimaru
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
(1964)
Hail the 3 Gents
(1964)
Could I But Live
(1964)
こんにちは赤ちゃん
(1964)
Keisuke Yomoyama
Beast Alley
(1965)
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
(1965)
Samurai Assassin
(1965)
Einosuke Kurihara
Five Gents' Trick Book
(1965)
Challenge for Glory
(1966)
The Daphne
(1966)
Ooka (Umeko's husband)
The Thin Line
(1966)
Isao Tashiro
Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Young Challengers
(1968)
Junpei Namikawa
Judge and Jeopardy
(1968)
Hiroshi Masaki
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
(1969)
Toshizo Hijikata
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
(1969)
Tomizô Funakoshi
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
(1969)
The Militarists
(1970)
Premier Hideki Tojo
The Ambitious
(1970)
Yoshinosuke Saigo
I Hear the Whistle
(1971)
Takashi Sugimoto
The Battle of Okinawa
(1971)
General Ushijima
幻の殺意
(1971)
The Golden Bat Shows Up
(1972)
Tokuhei Kyojima
Submersion of Japan
(1973)
Dr. Tadokoro
Tora-san, the Intellectual
(1975)
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
(1976)
Mount Hakkoda
(1977)
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
(1977)
White Love
(1979)
Keisuke Uemura
The Imperial Navy
(1981)
Isoroku Yamamoto
Okinawan Boys
(1983)
L・O・V・I・N・G
(1983)
The Return of Godzilla
(1984)
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Godzilla 1985
(1985)
Prime Minister Mitamura
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
(1986)
Tree Without Leaves
(1986)
Hatsu-rojin
For Business
(1986)
Mihara
A Taxing Woman
(1987)
Ryoko's Boss
Yawara!
(1989)
Jigoro inokuma
Tasmania Story
(1990)
Whisper of the Heart
(1995)
Shiro Nishi (voice)
To Love
(1997)
Kamijo
The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
(1998)
One Summer's Day
(1999)
Kenshiro Ooi
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
(2001)
Inspector Muta
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
(2002)
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
(2002)
Self
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
(2003)
平松
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
(2005)
Narrator