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 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.
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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 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.
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Known for
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
One Summer's Day
To Love
Whisper of the Heart
Karin
Tasmania Story
Yawara!
A Taxing Woman
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Tree Without Leaves
For Business
Godzilla 1985
Waves of Spring
The Return of Godzilla
L・O・V・I・N・G
松田聖子のはじめての情事
Okinawan Boys
Tuesday Suspense Theater
The Imperial Navy
White Love
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Mount Hakkoda
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Submersion of Japan
Submersion of Japan
The Golden Bat Shows Up
I Hear the Whistle
The Battle of Okinawa
幻の殺意
The Militarists
The Ambitious
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Young Challengers
Judge and Jeopardy
Japan's Longest Day
Challenge for Glory
The Daphne
The Thin Line
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Beast Alley
Five Gents' Trick Book
Could I But Live
こんにちは赤ちゃん
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
Hail the 3 Gents
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Pressure of Guilt
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Born in Sin
47 Ronin
A Wanderer's Notebook
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
女難コースを突破せよ
続サラリーマン清水港
The Wiser Age
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
Sanjuro
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
The End of Summer
Snow in the South Seas
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
The Masterless 47 – Part II
Happiness of Us Alone
The Masterless 47
Master Fencer Sees the World
The Storm of the Pacific
The Lost Alibi
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
社長太平記
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
The Naked General
Summer Clouds
Little Peach
Yaji and Kita on the Road
The Third President
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Assistant President
Price of Beauty
Ôban
はりきり社長
A Wife's Heart
Night School
Settlement of Love
The President Talks Bank
Sudden Rain
The President's Boss
The First Kiss
Life's Simple Pleasures
Here Is a Spring
Red-Light Bases
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Eagle of the Pacific
Girls in the Orchard
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Adolescence Part II
Their Father's Wife
Mr. Pu
Husband and Wife
My Wonderful Yellow Car
恐妻時代
Tokyo Sweetheart
Love's Cheerleader
Third Class Executives
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Mr. Lucky
Repast
のど自慢三羽烏
Tsuki yori no haha
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Clothes of Deception
Resurrection
Mado Kara Tobidase
The Rainbow Man
Diary of a Nurse
The Hopeful Family
The Man From Chungking
The Tiger of Malaya
Horror of the Fifth Columnist