
Keiju Kobayashi
Born: 1923-11-23
Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan
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
Known For

Whisper of the Heart

Godzilla 1985

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

The Return of Godzilla

Five Gents and a Kuniang

The Battle of Okinawa

Chûshingura

Sanjuro

Mount Hakkoda

The End of Summer

Japan's Longest Day

The Imperial Navy

A Wanderer's Notebook

Repast

A Taxing Woman

Take the 'A' Train, Someday

Samurai Assassin

The Thin Line

Beast Alley

The Ambitious

Shimizu Port Salaryman

The Lost Alibi

Okinawan Boys

A Wife's Heart

To Love

Tree Without Leaves

Submersion of Japan

Happiness of Us Alone

Five Gents Prefer Geisha

Little Peach

Sudden Rain

The Storm of the Pacific

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success

Five Gents on the Spot

The Eagle of the Pacific

Walleyed Nippon

Discover Japan with the 5 Gents

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

Vengeance for Sale

Yaji and Kita on the Road

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

Holiday in Tokyo

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

Tasmania Story

Judge and Jeopardy

Company President Travels Abroad

The Third President

Master Fencer Sees the World

Husband and Wife

New Third-Class Executive

Red-Light Bases

Resurrection

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Diary of a Nurse

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Mr. Pu

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Summer Clouds

Travel Stories of a Company President

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

The Militarists

Tsuki yori no haha

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

Ken

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

We Are Salarymen

Could I But Live

Playboy President: Part II

のど自慢三羽烏

Love's Cheerleader

The Masterless 47

The Dead Beauty Incident

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class

One Summer's Day

For Business

Student Double Suicide

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

Company President Travels Abroad Part II

Girls in the Orchard

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

The Man From Chungking

Elephant from "Zoo Story"

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

I Hear the Whistle

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

The Masterless 47 – Part II

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

Makeraremasen katsumadewa

The Wiser Age

Hail the 3 Gents

恐妻時代

Born in Sin

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

Acchan no bebi gyangu

Assistant President

Tokyo Sweetheart

Playboy President

3 Dolls and Baby Gang

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

Snow in the South Seas

The President Talks Bank

Atarashii Sebiro

Mother Country

Pressure of Guilt

Clothes of Deception

Ôban

Nonki saiban

Mr. Lucky

Three Generations of Company Presidents

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Music's Twenty Doors

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

Their Father's Wife

Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents

The Daughters of the Saotome Family

Mado Kara Tobidase

Night School

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

Youth of Heiji Senigata

Life's Simple Pleasures

My Wonderful Yellow Car

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

3 Gents in the Snow Country

Hello, Baby

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

Here Is a Spring

Adolescence Part II

Wakarete ikiru toki mo

Price of Beauty

Taking a Success Course

Zoku botchan shain

Challenge for Glory

The First Kiss

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'

The Hopeful Family

The President's Boss

A Company President's Life Story

The Rainbow Man

田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ

Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble

The Tiger of Malaya

Settlement of Love

Young Challengers

Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells

Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl

土曜日の天使

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

Yawara!

Five Gents' Trick Book

We Will Remember

Horror of the Fifth Columnist

Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman

Dimple of Tokyo

White Love

Godzilla Resurrection

Tidal Wave

The Daphne

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday

Young Love Conquers All

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

L・O・V・I・N・G

Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

Schooldays

The Naked General

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3

Bringing Up Husbands

Fox and Raccoon

幻の殺意

Third Class Executives
