Keiju Kobayashi

Actor Nov 23 (died age 86) Gunma, Japan 1942–2018 (76 year career)

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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 defin…

Known For

Film

Whisper of the Heart

Shiro Nishi (voice)

Film

Sanjuro

The Spy

Film

The Return of Godzilla

Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura

Film

Godzilla 1985

Prime Minister Mitamura

Film

The End of Summer

Hisao

Film

Samurai Assassin

Einosuke Kurihara

Film

Repast

Shinzo Murata

Film

Chûshingura

Awajinokami Wakisake

Filmography

Acting (193)

Movies (184)

Godzilla Resurrection

2018

as Prime Minister Mitamura

10.0

Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells

2005

as Narrator

3.0

Take the 'A' Train, Someday

2003

as 平松

1.0

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

as Self

Vengeance for Sale

as Undertaker

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

2002

as Self

Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.

2001

as Inspector Muta

One Summer's Day

1999

as Kenshiro Ooi

The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya

To Love

as Kamijo

Whisper of the Heart

as Shiro Nishi (voice)

Tasmania Story

Yawara!

as Jigoro inokuma

A Taxing Woman

as Ryoko's Boss

Tree Without Leaves

as Hatsu-rojin

For Business

as Mihara

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

1986

6.0

Godzilla 1985

1985

as Prime Minister Mitamura

6.8

The Return of Godzilla

1984

as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura

Okinawan Boys

L・O・V・I・N・G

The Imperial Navy

as Isoroku Yamamoto

White Love

as Keisuke Uemura

田舎刑事　時間よ、とまれ

Mount Hakkoda

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

1976

Tora-san, the Intellectual

1975

7.7

Tidal Wave

1975

as Dr. Tadokoro

Submersion of Japan

1973

as Dr. Tadokoro

6.9

The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi

1973

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

1972

as Tokuhei Kyojima

The Three Musketeers of Japan: Adieu, Tokyo!

1972

The Battle of Okinawa

1971

as General Ushijima

7.7

I Hear the Whistle

1971

as Takashi Sugimoto

Maboroshi no Satsui

1971

First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri

1971

as Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff

1971

as Shinsuke Narada

The Militarists

1970

as Premier Hideki Tojo

8.0

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

1970

as Hisashi Tamba

Five Gents and a Kuniang

1970

as Tanba Hisashi

The Ambitious

1970

as Yoshinosuke Saigo

7.2

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

1969

as Saijō Takashi (PR manager)

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

1969

as Tomizô Funakoshi

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969

as Toshizo Hijikata

6.8

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

1969

8.0

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

1969

as Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

1968

as Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)

Judge and Jeopardy

1968

as Hiroshi Masaki

Young Challengers

1968

as Junpei Namikawa

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

1968

as Kenichi Honjō

Five Gents Prefer Geisha

1967

as Shingo Kimura

Japan's Longest Day

1967

as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

7.2

Discover Japan with the 5 Gents

1967

as Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)

Five Gents on the Spot

1966

as Keigo Kojima

The Stranger Within a Woman

1966

as Isao Tashiro

7.3

A Company President's Life Story

1966

as Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)

Challenge for Glory

1966

The Daphne

1966

as Ooka (Umeko's husband)

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

1965

as Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)

Samurai Assassin

1965

as Einosuke Kurihara

7.3

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

1965

Beast Alley

1965

as Detective Hisatsune

7.0

Five Gents' Trick Book

We Will Remember

Hello, Baby

as Keisuke Yomoyama

Hail the 3 Gents

as Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)

Could I But Live

1964

Ken

1964

as Eri Itami

7.8

3 Gents in the Snow Country

1964

Company President Travels Abroad Part II

1963

as Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)

Company President Travels Abroad

1963

as Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

1963

as Eburi Toshimaru

6.1

Travel Stories of a Company President

1963

Walleyed Nippon

1963

as Narrator & Matchmaker

Pressure of Guilt

1963

7.0

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

1963

as Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)

We Are Salarymen

1963

as Head of Sales, Seihō Electric

Sanjuro

1962

as The Spy

8.0

Chûshingura

1962

as Awajinokami Wakisake

7.2

The Daughters of the Saotome Family

1962

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

1962

A Wanderer's Notebook

1962

as Fujiyama

7.2

My Hobo

1962

as Junpei Shishido

Born in Sin

The Wiser Age

as Jiro Ishikawa

Mother Country

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

1962

5.8

Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble

1962

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman

1962

Playboy President

1961

as Kuwabara Takeshi

Playboy President: Part II

1961

as Takeshi Kuwabara

The End of Summer

1961

as Hisao

7.5

Acchan no bebi gyangu

1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II

1961

Happiness of Us Alone

1961

as Michio Katayama

9.0

Taking a Success Course

1961

Snow in the South Seas

1961

Eternity of Love

1961

3 Dolls and Baby Gang

1961

The Masterless 47

1960

as Heitaro Teraoka

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

1960

as Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)

The Storm of the Pacific

1960

5.6

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

1960

as Namikichi Yashiro

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success

1960

as Isshin Tarō

The Lost Alibi

1960

as Teiichiro Ishino

4.6

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

1960

as Namiyoshi Yashiro

Master Fencer Sees the World

1960

Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes

1960

as Isshin Tarō

Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1

1960

New Third-Class Executive

1959

as Namiyoshi Yashiro

Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II

1959

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

1959

Fox and Raccoon

1959

as Goichi Yufune

Bringing Up Husbands

1959

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

1958

as Officer Furuyama

Yaji and Kita on the Road

1958

as Kitahachi Kitariya

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958

Makeraremasen katsumadewa

Holiday in Tokyo

Little Peach

as Tayama

Summer Clouds

as Hatsuji

Assistant President

The Naked General

The Third President

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3

1958

as Hideyoshi Kinoshita

Atarashii Sebiro

1957

Elephant from "Zoo Story"

1957

as Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi

Ôban

1957

as Policeman

Price of Beauty

1957

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

1957

as Kinoshita Hideyoshi

Diary of a Successful Salaryman

1957

as Kinoshita Hideyoshi

Schooldays

1957

as Yamaoka

The President Talks Bank

1956

Three Generations of Company Presidents

1956

Night School

1956

as Night time teacher

The President's Boss

1956

A Wife's Heart

1956

as Shinji

6.8

Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl

1956

as Miki

Sudden Rain

1956

as Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)

6.5

Settlement of Love

1956

as Takeuchi

Nonki saiban

1955

Here Is a Spring

1955

7.3

Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei

1955

Young Love Conquers All

The First Kiss

Zoku botchan shain

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class

1954

土曜日の天使

1954

Student Double Suicide

1954

The Eagle of the Pacific

1953

as Staff Officer (uncredited)

Girls in the Orchard

Mr. Pu

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

1953

as Heima Sakamoto

Youth of Heiji Senigata

1953

Their Father's Wife

1953

Husband and Wife

1953

as Shigekichi Hayakawa

6.6

Adolescence Part II

1953

as (uncredited)

Red-Light Bases

1953

as School Teacher Uenishi

My Wonderful Yellow Car

1953

as Drunken man A

6.0

Love's Cheerleader

1952

as Mr. Gan

Tokyo Sweetheart

1952

7.6

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1952

Mr. Lucky

1952

as 若原俊平

恐妻時代

1952

as Shinichi Utsumi

Dimple of Tokyo

1952

as Policeman

Third Class Executives

1952

as Wakahara

のど自慢三羽烏

1951

Clothes of Deception

1951

as Kōji

6.5

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

1951

Tsuki yori no haha

1951

as Kenji

Repast

1951

as Shinzo Murata

7.6

Resurrection

1950

as Kunihiko Murai

Mado Kara Tobidase

1950

as Yûji Tokuyama

The Rainbow Man

1949

as Ryôsuke Akashi

6.7

The Dead Beauty Incident

1948

Music's Twenty Doors

1948

Wildcat Lady or Mountain Cat Woman

1948

Diary of a Nurse

1947

The Hopeful Family

1947

The Man From Chungking

1943

as 中原精一

The Tiger of Malaya

1943

as Hassan

Horror of the Fifth Columnist

1942

Television (9)

Karin

1993

as 小森弥之助

弁護士朝日岳之助

1988

Waves of Spring

1985

松田聖子のはじめての情事

1983

Tuesday Suspense Theater

1981

Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow

1976

as Taira no Yoshimasa

9.0

Submersion of Japan

1974

as Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro

Japan Sinks

1974

as 田所雄介博士

Pieces of Autumn

1973