Highest rated movie: Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Lowest rated movie: Godzilla 1985 (1985)
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Looking for reviews of Keiju Kobayashi movies? Cinafilm has a total of 201 reviews across 5 movies.
Movies starring Keiju Kobayashi have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 71%.
Whisper of the Heart - released in 1995 - is Keiju Kobayashi's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 14 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Keiju Kobayashi is Godzilla 1985 - released in 1985 - with a score of 58% based on 158 reviews.
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 September 16, 2010 of heart failure at the age of 86.
Keiju Kobayashi has acted in films with Yoshibumi Tajima, Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Yoshio Inaba.
Keiju Kobayashi has worked with these film directors: Kihachi Okamoto, Kenji Misumi, Yoshifumi Kondo and R.J. Kizer.
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