Keiju Kobayashi profile
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Keiju Kobayashi

23rd November 1923 Gunma, Japan Acting

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

212 Movies 8 TV Shows 236 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Yawara! poster
Yawara! 15th April 1989 as Jigoro inokuma
The Daphne poster
The Daphne 1st October 1966 as Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Ken poster
Ken 14th March 1964 as Eri Itami
Ôban poster
Ôban 5th March 1957 as Policeman
Sudden Rain poster
Sudden Rain 14th January 1956 as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
Repast poster
Repast 23rd November 1951 as Shinzo Murata
Karin poster
Karin 4th October 1993 as 小森弥之助