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Akira Kobayashi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

03/11/1938

Age

87 years old

Place of Birth

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Kobayashi

Biography

Akira Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林旭, Hepburn: Kobayashi Akira, born November 3, 1938) is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is Maito Gai (マイトガイ, "Might Guy").

Known For

Road to the Don Theatrical Version

Shura Group Part 2

Shura Group

Shura Group Part 3

Emperor of Upheaval

A Legend of Turmoil

Again

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village

Tarao Bannai

Filmography

Cast

2003

Road to the Don Theatrical Version

2002

Shura Group Part 2

2002

Shura Group

2002

Shura Group Part 3

1993

Emperor of Upheaval

1992

A Legend of Turmoil

as Shuji Otaki

1984

Again

1980

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The ...

as Akira Takeda

1978

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village

as Bannai Tarao

1978

Tarao Bannai

as Bannai Tarao

1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2

1976

The Yakuza Code Still Lives

as Akimitsu Hojo

1976

Operation Plazma in Osaka

1975

The Murder Corps

1975

The Gate of Youth

1974

Code of Wolves

1974

Father of the Kamikaze

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Fina...

as Akira Takeda

1974

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza ...

1974

Violent Streets

as Yazaki Ryuji

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Poli...

as Akira Takeda

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Prox...

as Akira Takeda

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1972

Zorome no San Kyoudai

1971

The Killer

1970

Women Smell of Night

1970

Sign of the Jack

as Yuji Hanamura

1970

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

as Masaaki Kagari

1970

Records of Bloodshed

as Minoru Nojiri

1970

Greatest Boss Of Japan

1970

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger

as Masaaki Kagari

1970

Peonies And Dragons

1969

Ginza Poacher

as Tsuchida Akira

1969

Bloody Territories

as Yuuji Komatsu, Oonogi Clan senior member

1969

Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler

1969

Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell

as One-eyed Ipponmatsu

1969

The Rough One

as Yuji

1969

The Elder Sister

as Goro Fujikawa

1969

Women's Police: Part II

as Masaaki Kagari

1969

100 Gamblers

1969

Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

1969

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin

1969

Women's Police

as Masaaki Kagari

1969

Exiled to Hell

as Koiso Kikuji

1968

Three Rogues

1968

Retaliation

as Kojiro Samukawa

1968

Duel in the Storm

as Seijiro Tamimura

1968

Diamonds of the Andes

1968

Dice and Swords

1967

The Endless Duel

1967

My Sweetheart

as Director Sudo

1967

Three Seconds to Zero Hour

as Yabuki

1967

対決

1967

The Singing Gunman

1967

The Reckless One

1967

Immortal Guy

1966

Shin yūkyōden

1966

Fearless Comrades

1966

Black Tight Killers

as Daisuke Hondo

1966

The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devi...

1965

The Dragon of Macao

as Ryu

1965

Bastards Without Borders

as Shinsuke Henmi

1965

The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice

as Koji Himuro

1965

Three Stray Dogs

1965

The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicat...

as Koji Himuro

1965

Gambling is My Destiny

1965

The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomo...

1965

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

1965

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

1964

Traveling Alone with a Guitar

1964

Call My Black Dice

1964

The Call of Blood

as Ryôta Asari

1964

A Wandering Gambler

1964

Punishment of a Lawless Villian

1964

The Flower and the Angry Waves

1964

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

1963

Kanto Wanderer

as Katsuta

1963

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji

1963

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum...

1963

Tale on Kanto Chivalry

as Daisaku

1963

Ginza no jirochō

1963

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

1963

Badge of the Night

1963

Hatoba no tobakushi

1962

Utau abarenbō

1962

Bōkyō no umi

1962

Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze

1962

The Rambler Returns Home

as Hiroshi Taki

1962

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love

as Jun Yamakawa

1962

Return of the Whirlwind

1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

Yume ga ippai abarenbō

1962

Love in the Air

as Shōji Satake

1962

The Rambler Goes North

1961

The Black Scar

1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest

1961

The Plateau Man

1961

Where the Horizon Meets the Sun

1961

Rambling in the Sea

1961

Rambling in the Wind

1961

でかんしょ風来坊

1961

Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm

as Ginza Whirlwind

1961

Pacific Porters

1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1960

The Angry Rambler

1960

The Rambler Rides Again

as Shinji

1960

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

1960

The Tokyo Mighty Guy

as Jirô Shimizu

1960

The Rambler in the Sunset

1960

Wind of Volcano

1960

Return of the Vagabond

1960

He's the Witness

1960

The Guitarist from the Sea

1960

The Poem of the Blue Star

1960

The Guitarist and the Rancher

1959

Who is in the Background?

1959

The Rambling Guitarist

as Taki

1959

The Human Cyclone

as Takuya Nikaidō (The "Ginza Whirlwind")

1959

Farewell to Southern Tosa

1959

Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero

1959

Wakai hyou no mure

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

I Will Challenge

1959

Gunshū no naka no taiyō

1959

Get Over Her

1959

Friendship of Jazz

as Minoru Hata

1958

The Perfect Game

as Sôji Ôki

1958

Zesshou

as Junkichi Sonoda

1958

Young Breasts

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

The Nun

as Akio Agata

1958

Rusty Knife

as Makoto Terada

1957

高校四年

1957

The Way of Youth

1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

as Genzui Kusaka

1957

Who's the Real Killer

as Jiro

1957

This Day's Life

1957

The Champion

as Cameo

1956

Hungry Soul, Part II

as Akira Ogouchi

1956

Hungry Soul

as Akira Ogouchi

Crew

1989

The Demon Comes in Spring

as Director

1963

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

as Theme Song Performance