Nenji Kobayashi

Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1941, Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan
Movies: 195

Toshiji Kobayashi (小林稔侍, Kobayashi Toshiji, born on February 7, 1941), known by his stage name, Nenji Kobayashi (alternative reading of 稔侍), is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.

Best-Known Movies

7.8

The Twilight Samurai

2002

7.5

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

7.0

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972

7.4

The Hidden Blade

2004

7.0

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972

7.4

Love and Honor

2006

6.3

Virus

1980

7.3

Tokyo Family

2013

6.9

The Bullet Train

1975

6.9

Café Lumière

2004

Filmography

2025	Tokyo Taxi	Customer
2023	ホリデイ～江戸の休日～
2021	森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」
2021	It's a Flickering Life
2020	Labyrinth of Cinema	Kizuma
2019	Tora-san, Wish You Were Here	洼田
2018	Impossibility Defense	Hiroshi Torimori
2018	Hoshi Meguri no Machi	Yusaku Shimada
2017	What a Wonderful Family! 2	Ginnpei Maruta
2017	Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 11 ~ Friendship Through Train Trip ~
2016	Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 31
2016	Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 10
2016	Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 30
2016	What a Wonderful Family!	Numata
2016	Saraba Abunai Deka
2015	Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
2015	Dr. Hikojiro	Kyosuke Tanigawa
2015	Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 29
2014	Uzumasa Limelight
2014	Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 3
2014	The Little House	Gunji Arai
2013	It All Began When I Met You	Taizou
2013	Clock Store's Girl	Tomoyasu
2013	Tokyo Family	Numata
2012	Hanayome
2011	Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File	Sosuke Ohara
2011	Toire no kamisama	Shunji Uemura
2010	樅ノ木は残った
2010	About Her Brother	Shohei Tanno
2009	Giwaku	Fukutaro Shirakawa
2008	The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
2007	Tsubaki Sanjuro	Kurofuji
2006	Love and Honor	Sakunosuke Higuchi
2006	Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits	Kuhei Sagihara
2005	実録・小野田少尉遅すぎた帰還
2004	The Motive	Mutuo Toura
2004	The Hidden Blade	Kôda
2004	Café Lumière	Yoko's Father
2003	Kyotaro Nishimura Special: Murder on the ‘Traveling Go’ around Japan.	Detective Kamei
2003	Another Battle/Conspiracy	Oda Tsunemi
2002	The Twilight Samurai	Choubei Kusaka
2001	The Firefly
2000	Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
2000	A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen	Hideo
2000	Home Sweet Home
2000	The Stupid Teacher
1999	Railroad Man	Senji Sugiura
1999	Asabuki Riyako, Female Lawyer: The Young Eyewitness	Yunoshin Yabuhara
1999	Amateur Singing Contest
1998	A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage	Takano
1998	Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
1998	Asabuki Riyako, Female Attorney: The Little Accomplice	Yunoshin Yabuhara
1998	Oda Nobunaga	Hirate Masahide
1997	Free and Easy 9	Tsunetaro Baba
1997	Insurance Investigator Shigarami Taro's Case Files ~Sanuki Murder Case~	Shiragami Taro
1995	A Brief Message from the Heart
1995	The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
1995	MARKS	Yuzo Rinbara
1994	47 Ronin
1991	A Desirable Marriage	Masayuki Yamauchi
1990	Megumi no Sekai
1990	Flower Season
1989	Water Moon
1989	Virgin Road
1989	Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy	Ryosuke Okada (Episode 1)
1989	The Political Game
1988	Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Noboru Takahashi (Episode 4)
1988	Stay or go?
1988	Korogashi Ryota - The Monster Bus	Nanbara
1988	Umi e, See You	Mizuki
1987	The Drifting Classroom	Yoshio
1987	Maiko monogatari
1987	Tokyo Bordello	Giichi Tsubosaka
1987	Paper Lantern
1987	Makeup
1987	Night Train	Shinji
1986	A Homance	Fukuoka
1986	Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast	Gonzoh
1986	Desperate Pursuit	Sano
1986	His Motorbike, Her Island	News Reporter
1985	Tracked	Moritani
1985	Early Spring Story	Coffee shop owner
1985	Demon	Toshio
1985	Fire Festival	Laborer
1985	The Seburi Story
1985	Nuclear Gypsies
1985	Lonely Heart	Douryou Inoue
1985	Moment of Demon	Sushi chef
1984	The Island Closest to Heaven	Yoshimi Aoyama
1984	The Story of a Man Among Men
1984	The Audition	Yamawaki
1984	Jugyo Sankan no Onna	Kirihara
1984	Turkish March: Castle of Dreams	Yoshikazu Honjô
1983	Choji Snack Bar	Kozeki
1983	Nogare no machi
1983	Crimson Night Dream	Ichitarô Ogawa
1983	The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor	Customer at 'Hero'
1983	The Ballad of Narayama	Tsune
1983	Akuma no hitojichi	Mariko's Former Husband
1983	The Yoshida School	Eiichi Nishimura
1983	Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1982	The Longest Tunnel
1982	Zeccho shimai ochiru	Shôji Sonoda
1982	Lullaby of Death	Detective Akutsu
1982	Suspicion	Prosecutor Munakata
1982	Farewell to the Land	Farmer
1982	Gate of Youth 2	Ryoji Kimoto
1981	Station	Detective Tatsumi
1981	Love Beast: Attack!	Kawamura
1981	Essential Information for a College Girl	Ken Kakurai - Handsome Homosexual
1981	Gate of Youth	Chota
1981	Eijanaika	Matakichi
1980	Momoe's Lips: Love Beast	Masanobu Ômichi
1980	The Bear Storm
1980	The Wicked	Detective
1980	Virus	Doctor's Assistant #2
1980	Crazy Thunder Road	Tsuyoshi
1980	The Revolt	Sergeant Harada
1978	Japanese Godfather: Conclusion	Takenosuke Shiga
1978	Winter's Flower	Kiichiro Hanai
1978	Message from Space	Officer Fox
1978	Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy	Scarred Ronin
1977	Doberman Cop	Katsuo Kōyama
1977	Curse of the Dog God
1977	Nuns That Bite
1977	Hokuriku Proxy War
1977	Japan's Don	Takenosuke Shiga
1976	New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976	Yakuza Graveyard	Akira Kitajima
1976	Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1976	The Classroom of Terror
1976	Festival Champ
1976	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976	Karate Warriors	Goro Higashida
1976	Violent Panic: The Big Crash	Mitsuo Seki
1975	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss	Katsuo Shimura
1975	The Bullet Train	Morimoto
1974	Military Comfort Woman
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics	Hiroshi Taniguchi
1973	The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973	Big Bad Wolf
1973	Love Lost in Tears
1973	A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1973	Quarreling with Yakuza
1972	Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41	The Young Man
1972	Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences	Katsu
1972	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972	Yakuza Skirmishes
1972	Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1972	Woman His Prey
1972	Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972	Rogue of the Night
1972	Street Mobster	Tetsuo
1972	Gang Warfare
1972	Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972	Delinquent Street
1972	Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder	Shimizu
1971	Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
1971	The Armed Organization
1971	The Gambler's Counterattack	Yamano Saburo
1971	Patience Has An End
1970	Thugs of Shinjuku
1970	Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
1970	Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
1970	Fear of Sex
1970	King of the Night Life
1970	A Kamikaze Cop
1970	A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970	Code Between Brothers: All New
1970	Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
1969	The Private Police
1969	Japan Organized Crime Boss	Hamanaka-gumi Member
1969	The Domain: Flower and Dragon	Shunji
1969	Girl in College
1969	Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1968	Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968	Night Guy
1968	The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968	Secret Information	Thug A
1968	Prison Boss
1967	Yanagase Blues
1967	Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
1967	Gambler's World	Honma
1967	Captain Ultra: The Movie	Joe, Space Alien
1967	Organized Violence
1966	Glorious Fights
1966	Game of Chance	Tiger
1966	Nerves for Victory
1966	Pretty Devil Yoko	Cook
1965	Gang's Upward Strategy
1965	Secret Club 000
1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965	The Hoodlum Brothers
1965	Color
1963	The Navy

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