
Akira Kobayashi
Known for Acting · 144 credits
- Born
- 1938-11-03 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Акира Кобаяси · آکیرا کوبایاشی · Mighty Guy · 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
TV Shows (2)
Movies (142)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973

Tarao Bannai
1978
as Bannai Tarao

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
as Akira Takeda

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village
1978
as Bannai Tarao

Violent Streets
1974
as Yazaki Ryuji

The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
as Akira Takeda

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
as Genzui Kusaka

The Gate of Youth
1975

Kanto Wanderer
1963
as Katsuta

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
as Akira Takeda

A Legend of Turmoil
1992
as Shuji Otaki

Road to the Don Theatrical Version
2003

Father of the Kamikaze
1974

Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976

Tokyo Mighty Guy
1960
as Jirô Shimizu

The Rambling Guitarist
1959
as Taki

Women's Police
1969
as Masaaki Kagari

The Yakuza Code Still Lives
1976
as Akimitsu Hojo

Shura Group Part 3
2002

Rusty Knife
1958
as Makoto Terada

Code of Wolves
1974

Black Tight Killers
1966
as Daisuke Hondo

My Sweetheart
1967
as Director Sudo

The Rough One
1969
as Yuji

A Rampage Full of Dreams
1962

Who's the Real Killer
1957
as Jiro

Retaliation
1968
as Kojiro Samukawa

Who is in the Background?
1959

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
as Akira Takeda

The Angry Rambler
1960

Peonies And Dragons
1970

The Rambler Returns Home
1962
as Hiroshi Taki

Wakai hyou no mure
1959

Badge of the Night
1963

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
1969

The Poem of the Blue Star
1960

Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze
1962

Diamonds of the Andes
1968

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
1975

Immortal Guy
1967

Emperor of Upheaval
1993

The Human Cyclone
1959
as Takuya Nikaidō (The "Ginza Whirlwind")

Shura Group Part 2
2002

Return of the Whirlwind
1962

Tokyo no Kodoku
1959

The Reckless One
1967

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies
1970
as Masaaki Kagari

The Rambler Goes North
1962

Bōkyō no umi
1962

Friendship of Jazz
1959
as Minoru Hata

100 Gamblers
1969

Pacific Porters
1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961

Bloody Territories
1969
as Yuuji Komatsu, Oonogi Clan senior member

Women's Police: Part II
1969
as Masaaki Kagari

The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974

The Call of Blood
1964
as Ryôta Asari

The Perfect Game
1958
as Sôji Ôki

対決
1967

Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
1961
as Ginza Whirlwind

Sign of the Jack
1970
as Yuji Hanamura

Get Over Her
1959
as Osamu Tadokoro

The Plateau Man
1961

Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959

Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964

The Elder Sister
1969
as Goro Fujikawa

The Boy Who Came Back
1958
as Nobuo Kasahara

Punishment of a Lawless Villian
1964

Hungry Soul, Part II
1956
as Akira Ogouchi

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
1963

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960

Bastards Without Borders
1965
as Shinsuke Henmi

Again
1984

The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice
1965
as Koji Himuro

Wind of Volcano
1960

Three Rogues
1968

Zesshou
1958
as Junkichi Sonoda

I Will Challenge
1959

Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
1969

This Day's Life
1957

Greatest Boss of Japan
1970

Zorome no San Kyoudai
1972

The Killer
1971

Return of the Vagabond
1960

Duel in the Storm
1968
as Seijiro Tamimura

The Guitarist from the Sea
1960

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger
1970
as Masaaki Kagari

The Endless Duel
1967

Where the Horizon Meets the Sun
1961

Exiled to Hell
1969
as Koiso Kikuji

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
1963

Rambling in the Sea
1961

Shura Group
2002

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965

Utau abarenbō
1962

The Dragon of Macao
1965
as Ryu

The Black Scar
1961

Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
1969
as One-eyed Ipponmatsu

The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961

He's the Witness
1960

Shin yūkyōden
1966

Women Smell of Night
1970

Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964

The Champion
1957
as Cameo

Fearless Comrades
1966

Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
1959

Records of Bloodshed
1970
as Minoru Nojiri

Gambling is My Destiny
1965

Gunshū no naka no taiyō
1959

The Singing Gunman
1967

The Rambler in the Sunset
1960

Dice and Swords
1968

Hungry Soul
1956
as Akira Ogouchi

The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate
1965
as Koji Himuro

Three Seconds to Zero Hour
1967
as Yabuki

Love in the Air
1962
as Shōji Satake

Ginza Poacher
1969
as Tsuchida Akira

The Way of Youth
1957
About Akira Kobayashi
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"). With 144 credits spanning from 1956 to 2003, Akira Kobayashi has appeared in 142 films and 2 TV shows.
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Most Popular Akira Kobayashi Movies
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
- Tarao Bannai (1978) — as Bannai Tarao
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) — as Akira Takeda
- The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village (1978) — as Bannai Tarao
- Violent Streets (1974) — as Yazaki Ryuji
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