Akira Kobayashi

Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1938, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Movies: 143

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").

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974

7.2

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1974

7.0

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

1957

6.8

Violent Streets

1974

6.8

Black Tight Killers

1966

5.9

Rusty Knife

1958

5.9

Retaliation

1968

6.6

Kanto Wanderer

1963

Filmography

2026	Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki	Self
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	Shuji Otaki
1984	Again
1980	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga	Akira Takeda
1978	The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village	Bannai Tarao
1978	Tarao Bannai	Bannai Tarao
1977	The Gate of Youth Part 2
1976	The Yakuza Code Still Lives	Akimitsu Hojo
1976	Operation Plazma in Osaka
1975	Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
1975	The Gate of Youth
1974	Code of Wolves
1974	Father of the Kamikaze
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode	Akira Takeda
1974	The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974	Violent Streets	Ryuji Yazaki
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics	Akira Takeda
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	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	Yuji Hanamura
1970	Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies	Masaaki Kagari
1970	Records of Bloodshed	Minoru Nojiri
1970	Greatest Boss of Japan
1970	Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger	Masaaki Kagari
1970	Peonies And Dragons
1969	Ginza Poacher	Tsuchida Akira
1969	Bloody Territories	Yuuji Komatsu, Oonogi Clan senior member
1969	Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
1969	Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell	One-eyed Ipponmatsu
1969	The Rough One	Yuji
1969	The Elder Sister	Goro Fujikawa
1969	Women's Police: Part II	Masaaki Kagari
1969	100 Gamblers
1969	Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969	Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
1969	Women's Police	Masaaki Kagari
1969	Exiled to Hell	Koiso Kikuji
1968	Three Rogues
1968	Retaliation	Kojiro Samukawa
1968	Duel in the Storm	Seijiro Tamimura
1968	Diamonds of the Andes
1968	Dice and Swords
1967	The Endless Duel
1967	My Sweetheart	Director Sudo
1967	Three Seconds to Zero Hour	Yabuki
1967	対決
1967	The Singing Gunman
1967	The Reckless One
1967	Immortal Guy
1966	Shin yūkyōden
1966	Fearless Comrades
1966	Wandering Song
1966	Black Tight Killers	Daisuke Hondo
1966	The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil	Koji Himura (Gambler)
1965	The Dragon of Macao	Ryu
1965	Bastards Without Borders	Shinsuke Henmi
1965	The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice	Koji Himuro
1965	Three Stray Dogs
1965	The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate	Koji Himuro (Gambler)
1965	Gambling is My Destiny	Koji Himura (The Wandering Gambler)
1965	The Dice You Throw Will Bring About Tomorrow
1965	Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965	Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1964	Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964	Call My Black Dice	Koji Himuro (Gambler)
1964	The Call of Blood	Ryôta Asari
1964	A Wandering Gambler	Koji Himuro (The Wandering Gambler)
1964	Punishment of a Lawless Villian
1964	The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964	Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1963	Kanto Wanderer	Katsuta
1963	Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji
1963	Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
1963	Tale on Kanto Chivalry	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	Night of Bloody Hell
1962	The Rambler Returns Home	Hiroshi Taki
1962	Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love	Jun Yamakawa
1962	Return of the Whirlwind
1962	Song of a Traveller
1962	A Rampage Full of Dreams
1962	Love in the Air	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	The Drifter Against the Wind
1961	The Famous Wanderer
1961	Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm	Ginza Whirlwind
1961	Pacific Porters
1961	The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1960	The Wild, Unruly Drifter
1960	The Rambler Rides Again	Shinji
1960	The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960	Tokyo Mighty Guy	Jirô Shimizu
1960	The Rambler in the Sunset
1960	Volcano Wind
1960	Return of the Vagabond
1960	He's the Witness
1960	The Drifter from the Sea
1960	Yakuza Song
1960	The Guitarist and the Rancher
1959	Who is in the Background?
1959	The Rambling Guitarist	Taki
1959	The Human Cyclone	Takuya Nikaidō (The "Ginza Whirlwind")
1959	Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959	Light The Explosives	Chūji Nakanishi (President of the Nakanishi-gumi construction company)
1959	Young Panther
1959	Tokyo no Kodoku
1959	I Will Challenge
1959	Gunshū no naka no taiyō
1959	Get Over Her	Osamu Tadokoro
1959	Friendship of Jazz	Minoru Hata
1958	The Perfect Game	Sôji Ôki
1958	Zesshou	Junkichi Sonoda
1958	Young Breasts
1958	The Boy Who Came Back	Nobuo Kasahara
1958	The Nun	Akio Agata
1958	Rusty Knife	Makoto Terada
1957	高校四年
1957	The Way of Youth
1957	A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era	Genzui Kusaka
1957	Who's the Real Killer	Jiro
1957	This Day's Life
1957	The Champion	Cameo
1956	Hungry Soul, Part II	Akira Ogouchi
1956	Hungry Soul	Akira Ogouchi

Directing, Writing & Producing

1989

The Demon Comes in Spring

Director

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