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Keiju Kobayashi
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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
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Acting (246)
Shiro Nishi (voice)
The Spy
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Prime Minister Mitamura
Hisao
Einosuke Kurihara
Shinzo Murata
Awajinokami Wakisake
Ryoko's Boss
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Toshizo Hijikata
Dr. Tadokoro
Isoroku Yamamoto
Hatsuji
General Ushijima
Eri Itami
Tayama
Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
Eburi Toshimaru
Isao Tashiro
Yoshinosuke Saigo
Fujiyama
Shinji
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Staff Officer (uncredited)
Hatsu-rojin
Shigekichi Hayakawa
Teiichiro Ishino
Jiro Ishikawa
Undertaker
Prime Minister Mitamura
Michio Katayama
Ryôsuke Akashi
Kōji
Seikichi
田所先生
Keisuke Yomoyama
Kamijo
Detective Hisatsune
Drunken man A
Narrator
平松
Premier Hideki Tojo
Keisuke Uemura
Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
Utsumi
Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
(uncredited)
Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
Masayoshi Sakata
Kinoshita Hideyoshi
Kinoshita Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi Kinoshita
Policeman
Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries
Shinsuke Narada
Kenichi Honjō
Tanba Hisashi
Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
Hisashi Tamba
Keigo Kojima
Shingo Kimura
Mihara
Goichi Yufune
Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)
Takashi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Masaki
Tokuhei Kyojima
若原俊平
Namiyoshi Yashiro
Namikichi Yashiro
Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
Namiyoshi Yashiro
Night time teacher
Kenshiro Ooi
Kuwabara Takeshi
Takeshi Kuwabara
Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
Kunihiko Murai
Yamaoka
Takeuchi
Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Tomizô Funakoshi
Heitaro Teraoka
Kiyoshi Yamashita
School Teacher Uenishi
Hassan
Wakahara
Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
Narrator & Matchmaker
Head of Sales, Seihō Electric
Taira no Yoshimasa
Junpei Namikawa
Policeman
Private Kimura
Tetsuo Iwatani
Officer Furuyama
Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
Heima Sakamoto
1st Sin & 7th Sin
Inspector Muta
田所雄介博士
小森弥之助
Mr. Gan
Yûji Tokuyama
Isshin Tarō
Isshin Tarō
Heikurō
Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
中原精一
Chugo Kuroda (Chu-san)
Chugo Kuroda (Chu-san)
Miki
Dr. Tadokoro
Kenji
Kitahachi Kitariya
Jigoro inokuma
Shinichi Utsumi
Appearances (2)
Self
Self
