Akiji Kobayashi — Actor (15)
The Birth of Ultraman (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ウルトラマン 誕生
director: Akio Jissoji actor: Susumu Kurobe / Akiji Kobayashi
other title: ウルトラマン 誕生
In this recorded stage debut of the original Ultraman, self-proclaimed world's number one kaiju tamer, Eiji Tsuburaya introduces Ultraman, the Science Special Search Party (SSSP), and various kaiju.
Afternoon When Flowers Fell (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花の降る午後
director: Kazuki Ōmori actor: Yuko Kotegawa / Junko Sakurada
other title: 花の降る午後
A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate.
The Tale of Jean Valjean (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ジャン・バルジャン物語
other title: Les Misérables / ジャン・バルジャン物語
In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with a band of student revolutionaries.
Yuki (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ゆき
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Chie Ushihara / Akiji Kobayashi
other title: Yuki, le secret de la Montagne magique / ゆき
Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.
The Curse of the Ghost (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Kazuko Inano / Kei Satō
other title: 四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
Ultraman Zearth (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ウルトラマンゼアス
other title: ウルトラマンゼアス
Ultraman Zearth hails from The Land of Pikari in Nebula Z95. He has a big red face and dislikes dirt, and will go to great lengths to wash it off his hands. His goal is to clean the polluted Earth. He transforms with an electric toothbrush, which is consistent with his hygiene fixation. He's not quite adept at being a superhero, but at least he tries his best.
Run, Melos! (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
走れメロス
director: Masaaki Osumi actor: Koichi Yamadera / Shinji Ogawa
other title: Cours, Melos / El heroe legendario
The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage.
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (1990) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
雲のように風のように
director: 鸟海永行 actor: 佐野量子 / 市川笑也
other title: 如风似云 / 雲のように風のように
Ginga is a simple—yet energetic—country girl, living with her father far from the capital city of the empire in ancient China. When she learns of an opportunity to become a concubine of the young new Emperor, with the possibility of becoming his head wife in charge of all of the other wives, Ginga convinces her father to let her go. Once there, she meets all of the other potential head wives, each of whom have various reasons for being there. All of them must learn to read and write, learn the history of their country, and learn the proper mannerisms for being in the royal court. Ginga's enthusiasm tends to get her in trouble more often than not, but it works to her advantage when they learn that the former emperor's head wife, who is not the mother of the current emperor, is plotting treachery against the new emperor, and that a rebellion is headed toward the capital.