Keiju Kobayashi
1923 - 2010Keiju 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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社長洋行記
Toshio Sugie
Hisaya Morishige, Keiju Kobayashi
19-й фильм из комедийного цикла «Президент компании». В этой комедии показана повседневная жизнь общества сарариманов (офисных служащих в Японии). Сёдзи, производитель женского нижнего белья, начал реализацию плана по предотвращению въезда в Токио соперника из Кансая Сакуры Сокая.
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Sanjuro
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Sanjuro
Whisper of the Heart
Yoshifumi Kondou
Yoko Honna, Issey Takahashi
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
Whisper of the Heart
Tree Without Leaves
Kaneto Shindō
Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
Tree Without Leaves
金の卵
Yasuki Chiba
Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Kin no tamago: Golden girl
