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Keiju Kobayashi
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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... Read More
Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Godzilla Resurrection as Prime Minister Mitamura | 2018-12-13 |
| Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells as Narrator | 2005-09-09 |
| Take the 'A' Train, Someday as 平松 | 2003-12-20 |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' as Self | 2002-10-25 |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self | 2002-10-25 |
| Vengeance for Sale as Undertaker | 2002-02-16 |
| Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows. as Inspector Muta | 2001-02-24 |
| One Summer's Day as Kenshiro Ooi | 1999-07-03 |
| The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya | 1998-08-08 |
| To Love as Kamijo | 1997-10-04 |
| Whisper of the Heart as Shiro Nishi (voice) | 1995-07-15 |
| Tasmania Story | 1990-06-21 |
| Yawara! as Jigoro inokuma | 1989-04-15 |
| A Taxing Woman as Ryoko's Boss | 1987-02-07 |
| The Gentlemen’s Alliance | 1986-12-13 |
| Tree Without Leaves as Hatsu-rojin | 1986-11-15 |
| For Business as Mihara | 1986-08-22 |
| Godzilla 1985 as Prime Minister Mitamura | 1985-08-23 |
| The Return of Godzilla as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura | 1984-12-15 |
| L・O・V・I・N・G | 1983-12-24 |
| Okinawan Boys | 1983-09-10 |
| The Imperial Navy as Isoroku Yamamoto | 1981-08-08 |
| White Love as Keisuke Uemura | 1979-08-03 |
| 田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ | 1977-07-02 |
| Mount Hakkoda | 1977-06-04 |
| Love and Separation in Sri Lanka | 1976-05-29 |
| Tora-san, the Intellectual | 1975-12-27 |
| Tidal Wave as Dr. Tadokoro | 1975-05-28 |
| Submersion of Japan as Dr. Tadokoro | 1973-12-29 |
| The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi | 1973-01-15 |
| The Three Musketeers of Japan: Adieu, Tokyo! | 1972-10-28 |
| Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here as Tokuhei Kyojima | 1972-05-13 |
| First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri as Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries | 1971-10-30 |
| I Hear the Whistle as Takashi Sugimoto | 1971-09-24 |
| The Battle of Okinawa as General Ushijima | 1971-08-14 |
| First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff as Shinsuke Narada | 1971-05-22 |
| Maboroshi no Satsui | 1971-04-15 |
| The Militarists as Premier Hideki Tojo | 1970-09-11 |
| Five Gents and a Kuniang as Tanba Hisashi | 1970-02-28 |
| The Ambitious as Yoshinosuke Saigo | 1970-02-14 |
| Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Hisashi Tamba | 1970-01-15 |
| Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor as Toshizo Hijikata | 1969-12-05 |
| The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club as Tomizô Funakoshi | 1969-11-22 |
| Black Comedy - Ah, Fool | 1969-06-14 |
| 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Saijō Takashi (PR manager) | 1969-05-17 |
| 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager) | 1969-01-15 |
| Young Challengers as Junpei Namikawa | 1968-10-12 |
| Judge and Jeopardy as Hiroshi Masaki | 1968-06-08 |
| Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Kenichi Honjō | 1968-02-24 |
| Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager) | 1968-01-14 |
| Japan's Longest Day as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa | 1967-08-03 |
| Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Shingo Kimura | 1967-06-03 |
| Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director) | 1967-01-01 |
| Challenge for Glory | 1966-10-18 |
| The Daphne as Ooka (Umeko's husband) | 1966-10-01 |
| Five Gents on the Spot as Keigo Kojima | 1966-02-25 |
| The Stranger Within a Woman as Isao Tashiro | 1966-02-12 |
| A Company President's Life Story as Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary) | 1966-01-03 |
| Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi | 1965-10-09 |
| Beast Alley as Detective Hisatsune | 1965-09-05 |
| We Will Remember | 1965-08-25 |
| President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager) | 1965-01-31 |
| Five Gents' Trick Book | 1965-01-03 |
| Samurai Assassin as Einosuke Kurihara | 1965-01-03 |
| Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 1st Sin & 7th Sin | 1964-12-09 |
| Could I But Live | 1964-08-30 |
| Hello, Baby as Keisuke Yomoyama | 1964-03-20 |
| Ken as Eri Itami | 1964-03-14 |
| 3 Gents in the Snow Country | 1964-02-29 |
| Hail the 3 Gents as Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary) | 1964-01-03 |
| We Are Salarymen as Head of Sales, Seihō Electric | 1963-11-24 |
| The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman as Eburi Toshimaru | 1963-11-16 |
| Walleyed Nippon as Narrator & Matchmaker | 1963-09-02 |
| Company President Travels Abroad Part II as Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary) | 1963-05-29 |
| Company President Travels Abroad as Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary) | 1963-04-28 |
| Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary) | 1963-03-01 |
| Pressure of Guilt | 1963-02-17 |
| Travel Stories of a Company President | 1963-01-03 |
| Fūryū onsen bantō nikki | 1962-12-16 |
| Born in Sin | 1962-11-23 |
| My Hobo as Junpei Shishido | 1962-11-23 |
| Chûshingura as Awajinokami Wakisake | 1962-11-03 |
| A Wanderer's Notebook as Fujiyama | 1962-09-29 |
| The Daughters of the Saotome Family | 1962-09-08 |
| Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong | 1962-06-01 |
| Three Gentlemen from Tokyo | 1962-04-29 |
| Mother Country | 1962-04-29 |
| Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble | 1962-04-01 |
| Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II | 1962-03-07 |
| The Wiser Age as Jiro Ishikawa | 1962-01-14 |
| Shimizu Port Salaryman | 1962-01-03 |
| Sanjuro as The Spy | 1962-01-01 |
| 3 Dolls and Baby Gang | 1961-12-09 |
| The End of Summer as Hisao | 1961-10-29 |
| Snow in the South Seas | 1961-09-29 |
| Acchan no bebi gyangu | 1961-09-17 |
| Playboy President: Part II as Takeshi Kuwabara | 1961-05-30 |
| Playboy President as Kuwabara Takeshi | 1961-04-25 |
| Eternity of Love | 1961-04-04 |
| The Masterless 47 – Part II | 1961-02-25 |
| Taking a Success Course | 1961-01-26 |
| Happiness of Us Alone as Michio Katayama | 1961-01-15 |
| The Masterless 47 as Heitaro Teraoka | 1960-12-25 |
| Master Fencer Sees the World | 1960-10-16 |
| New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Namikichi Yashiro | 1960-07-12 |
| Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Isshin Tarō | 1960-05-28 |
| New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Namiyoshi Yashiro | 1960-04-26 |
| The Storm of the Pacific | 1960-04-26 |
| The Lost Alibi as Teiichiro Ishino | 1960-03-13 |
| Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Isshin Tarō | 1960-02-14 |
| New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Namikichi Yashiro (Employee) | 1960-01-15 |
| New Third-Class Executive as Namiyoshi Yashiro | 1959-08-09 |
| Bringing Up Husbands | 1959-05-19 |
| Fox and Raccoon as Goichi Yufune | 1959-04-28 |
| Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents | 1959-03-15 |
| Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period | 1959-01-03 |
| Yajikita dōchū sugoroku | 1958-12-07 |
| The Naked General | 1958-10-28 |
| Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hideyoshi Kinoshita | 1958-09-16 |
| Summer Clouds as Hatsuji | 1958-09-02 |
| Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Officer Furuyama | 1958-08-19 |
| Little Peach as Tayama | 1958-05-13 |
| Yaji and Kita on the Road as Kitahachi Kitariya | 1958-04-29 |
| Holiday in Tokyo | 1958-04-15 |
| The Third President | 1958-03-18 |
| Makeraremasen katsumadewa | 1958-01-09 |
| Assistant President | 1958-01-03 |
| Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Kinoshita Hideyoshi | 1957-11-12 |
| Schooldays as Yamaoka | 1957-09-22 |
| Atarashii Sebiro | 1957-08-27 |
| Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Kinoshita Hideyoshi | 1957-06-19 |
| Elephant from "Zoo Story" as Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi | 1957-04-09 |
| Price of Beauty | 1957-03-13 |
| Ôban as Policeman | 1957-03-05 |
| Three Generations of Company Presidents | 1956-07-13 |
| A Wife's Heart as Shinji | 1956-05-03 |
| Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Miki | 1956-04-25 |
| Night School as Night time teacher | 1956-04-18 |
| Settlement of Love as Takeuchi | 1956-03-28 |
| The President Talks Bank | 1956-03-20 |
| Sudden Rain as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door) | 1956-01-14 |
| The President's Boss | 1956-01-03 |
| Young Love Conquers All | 1955-11-29 |
| The First Kiss | 1955-09-21 |
| Life's Simple Pleasures | 1955-05-17 |
| Nonki saiban | 1955-04-24 |
| Here Is a Spring | 1955-02-12 |
| 土曜日の天使 | 1954-08-24 |
| Student Double Suicide | 1954-07-27 |
| Zoku botchan shain | 1954-05-07 |
| Madam of the first class and husband of the third class | 1954-04-13 |
| Red-Light Bases as School Teacher Uenishi | 1953-12-08 |
| First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband as Heima Sakamoto | 1953-11-11 |
| The Eagle of the Pacific as Staff Officer (uncredited) | 1953-10-21 |
| Girls in the Orchard | 1953-09-15 |
| Youth of Heiji Senigata | 1953-08-19 |
| Adolescence Part II as (uncredited) | 1953-07-01 |
| Their Father's Wife | 1953-05-27 |
| Mr. Pu | 1953-04-15 |
| Husband and Wife as Shigekichi Hayakawa | 1953-01-22 |
| My Wonderful Yellow Car as Drunken man A | 1953-01-15 |
| 恐妻時代 as Shinichi Utsumi | 1952-10-30 |
| Tokyo Sweetheart | 1952-07-15 |
| Dimple of Tokyo as Policeman | 1952-07-15 |
| Love's Cheerleader as Mr. Gan | 1952-06-19 |
| Third Class Executives as Wakahara | 1952-05-30 |
| Kin no tamago: Golden Girl | 1952-05-14 |
| Mr. Lucky as 若原俊平 | 1952-02-02 |
| Repast as Shinzo Murata | 1951-11-23 |
| のど自慢三羽烏 | 1951-11-16 |
| Tsuki yori no haha as Kenji | 1951-08-24 |
| Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre | 1951-08-03 |
| Clothes of Deception as Kōji | 1951-01-13 |
| Resurrection as Kunihiko Murai | 1950-06-10 |
| Mado Kara Tobidase as Yûji Tokuyama | 1950-03-26 |
| The Rainbow Man as Ryôsuke Akashi | 1949-07-18 |
| The Dead Beauty Incident | 1948-10-25 |
| Music's Twenty Doors | 1948-08-31 |
| Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman | 1948-03-09 |
| Diary of a Nurse | 1947-07-01 |
| The Hopeful Family | 1947-05-13 |
| The Man From Chungking as 中原精一 | 1943-11-11 |
| The Tiger of Malaya as Hassan | 1943-06-24 |
| Horror of the Fifth Columnist | 1942-04-16 |
