Keiju Kobayashi — Actor (44)
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Tree Without Leaves (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
落葉樹
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Les Arbres à feuilles caduques / El árbol sin hojas …
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.
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One Summer's Day (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Takuro Atsuki / Keiju Kobayashi …
other title: あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん
Absent-minded fifth-grader Yuta is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from others.
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Submersion of Japan (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本沈没
director: Shirō Moritani actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Hiroshi Fujioka …
other title: Pianeta Terra: anno zero / Der Untergang Japans …
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.
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The Ambitious (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
幕末
director: Daisuke Itō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Bakumatsu / 幕末
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
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Beast Alley (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
けものみち
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Junko Ikeuchi / Keiju Kobayashi …
other title: けものみち
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
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The Rainbow Man (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
虹男
director: Kiyohiko Ushihara actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Teruko Akatsuki …
other title: Nijiotoko / 虹男
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
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Ken (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
剣
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Yukiko Fuji …
other title: Le Sabre / 剣
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
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The Thin Line (1966) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
女の中にいる他人
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Lo straniero dentro una donna / L'Étranger à l'intérieur d'une femme …
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
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Japan's Longest Day (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
日本のいちばん長い日
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Seiji Miyaguchi / Rokkō Toura …
other title: The Emperor and a General / Le jour le plus long du Japon …
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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The Return of Godzilla (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
ゴジラ
director: Koji Yakusho actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Ken Tanaka …
other title: Il ritorno di Godzilla / Godzilla - Die Rückkehr des Monsters …
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.
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A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
放浪記
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Akira Takarada …
other title: Hourou-ki / Chronique de mon vagabondage …
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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The End of Summer (1961) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
小早川家の秋
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Setsuko Hara / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: L'autunno della famiglia Kohayagawa / 小早川家の秋 …
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.