Birthday
1923/11/23
Day of death
2010/09/16 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Gunma, Japan
Also know as
Кэйдзю Кобаяси
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 defin...Read more
(1952) Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as ---
(1962) Sanjuro
as The Spy
(1961) The End of Summer
as Hisao
(1995) Whisper of the Heart
as Shiro Nishi (voice)
(1952) Love's Cheerleader
as Mr. Gan
(1962) Chûshingura
as Awajinokami Wakisake
(1962) 続サラリーマン清水港
as ---
(1952) 恐妻時代
as Shinichi Utsumi
(1953) First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Heima Sakamoto
(1969) Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Toshizo Hijikata
(1962) 女難コースを突破せよ
as ---
(1951) Repast
as Shinzo Murata
(1962) Salaryman Shimizu Minato
as ---
(1985) Godzilla 1985
as Prime Minister Mitamura
(1997) To Love
as Kamijo
(1952) Third Class Executives
as Wakahara
(1963) The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as Eburi Toshimaru
(1957) Ôban
as Policeman
(1965) Samurai Assassin
as Einosuke Kurihara
(1958) Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Kitahachi Kitariya
(1973) Submersion of Japan
as Dr. Tadokoro
(1969) Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
as ---
(1969) The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as Tomizô Funakoshi
(1960) The Storm of the Pacific
as ---
(1977) Mount Hakkoda
as ---
(1960) Master Fencer Sees the World
as ---
(1986) Tree Without Leaves
as Hatsu-rojin
(1971) The Battle of Okinawa
as General Ushijima
(1958) Summer Clouds
as Hatsuji
(1956) Sudden Rain
as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
(1966) The Thin Line
as Isao Tashiro
(1962) Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
as ---
(1958) Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
as ---
(1986) For Business
as Mihara
(1968) Judge and Jeopardy
as Hiroshi Masaki
(1965) Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as ---
(1943) The Man From Chungking
as 中原精一
(1970) The Ambitious
as Yoshinosuke Saigo
(1977) 田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
as ---
(1956) Settlement of Love
as Takeuchi
(1960) The Masterless 47
as Heitaro Teraoka
(1962) Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
as ---
(1971) 幻の殺意
as ---
(1951) のど自慢三羽烏
as ---
(2003) Take the 'A' Train, Someday
as 平松
(1949) The Rainbow Man
as Ryôsuke Akashi
(1961) Wakarete ikiru toki mo
as ---
(1999) One Summer's Day
as Kenshiro Ooi
(1981) The Imperial Navy
as Isoroku Yamamoto
(1956) A Wife's Heart
as Shinji
(1962) Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
as ---
(1990) Tasmania Story
as ---
(1953) Husband and Wife
as Shigekichi Hayakawa
(1964) Zoku shachō shinshiroku
as ---
(1961) Happiness of Us Alone
as Michio Katayama
(1955) Life's Simple Pleasures
as ---
(1962) A Wanderer's Notebook
as Fujiyama
(1958) Little Peach
as Tayama
(1962) My Hobo
as Junpei Shishido
(1972) The Golden Bat Shows Up
as Tokuhei Kyojima
(1979) White Love
as Keisuke Uemura
(1955) Here Is a Spring
as ---
(1947) Diary of a Nurse
as ---
(1970) The Militarists
as Premier Hideki Tojo
(1952) Dimple of Tokyo
as Policeman
(1962) The Wiser Age
as Jiro Ishikawa
(1955) The First Kiss
as ---
(1984) The Return of Godzilla
as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
(1960) The Lost Alibi
as Teiichiro Ishino
(1953) Mr. Pu
as ---
(1955) Nonki saiban
as ---
(1989) Yawara!
as Jigoro inokuma
(1986) The Gentlemen’s Alliance
as ---
(1964) こんにちは赤ちゃん
as Keisuke Yomoyama
(1971) I Hear the Whistle
as Takashi Sugimoto
(1961) Snow in the South Seas
as ---
(1952) Mr. Lucky
as 若原俊平
(1961) Acchan no bebi gyangu
as ---
(1951) Tsuki yori no haha
as Kenji
(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
as Self
(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
as Self
(1961) 3 Dolls and Baby Gang
as ---
(1976) Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
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(1958) Makeraremasen katsumadewa
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(1965) Beast Alley
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(1963) Pressure of Guilt
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(1962) Born in Sin
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(1983) L・O・V・I・N・G
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(1957) Price of Beauty
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(1952) Tokyo Sweetheart
as ---
(1998) The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
as ---
(1966) Challenge for Glory
as ---
(1983) Okinawan Boys
as ---
(1958) The Naked General
as ---
(1953) Adolescence Part II
as (uncredited)
(1968) Young Challengers
as Junpei Namikawa
(1966) The Daphne
as Ooka (Umeko's husband)
(1956) Night School
as Night time teacher
(1951) Clothes of Deception
as Kōji
(1961) The Masterless 47 – Part II
as ---
(2001) Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
as Inspector Muta
(1943) The Tiger of Malaya
as Hassan
(1962) Mother Country
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(1987) A Taxing Woman
as Ryoko's Boss
(1962) Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
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(1975) Tora-san, the Intellectual
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(1953) The Eagle of the Pacific
as Staff Officer (uncredited)
(1953) My Wonderful Yellow Car
as Drunken man A
(1953) Their Father's Wife
as ---
(1953) Youth of Heiji Senigata
as ---
(1953) Red-Light Bases
as School Teacher Uenishi
(2005) Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
as Narrator
(1956) The President's Boss
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(1956) The President Talks Bank
as ---
(1958) Assistant President
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(1964) Hail the 3 Gents
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(1953) Girls in the Orchard
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(1950) Resurrection
as Kunihiko Murai
(1951) Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
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(1956) はりきり社長
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(1965) Five Gents' Trick Book
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(1964) Could I But Live
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(1959) Zoku shachōtaiheiki
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(1958) The Third President
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(1959) 社長太平記
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(1947) The Hopeful Family
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(1967) Japan's Longest Day
as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
(1950) Mado Kara Tobidase
as Yûji Tokuyama
(1942) Horror of the Fifth Columnist
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(1954) Student Double Suicide
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(1948) The Dead Beauty Incident
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(1954) Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
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(1948) Music's Twenty Doors
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(1961) Shusse kōsu ni shinro o tore
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(1981) Tuesday Suspense Theater
as ---
(1983) 松田聖子のはじめての情事
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(1993) Karin
as 小森弥之助
(1974) Submersion of Japan
as Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
(1974) Japan Sinks
as 田所雄介博士
(1976) Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
as Taira no Yoshimasa
(1985) Waves of Spring
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(1988) 弁護士朝日岳之助
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(1973) Pieces of Autumn
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