Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1923-11-23
Day of Death
2010-09-16
Place of Birth
Gunma, Japan
Keiju Kobayashi
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 (198)
Godzilla Resurrection
2018
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
2005
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
2003
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
2002
Vengeance for Sale
2002Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
2001
One Summer's Day
1999The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
1998
To Love
1997
Whisper of the Heart
1995
Tasmania Story
1990
Yawara!
1989
The Wives of Rokumeikan
1988
