Akiji Kobayashi
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Akiji Kobayashi (小林 昭二 Kobayashi Akiji), also miscredited in English as Shoji Kobayashi, was a Japanese actor and voice actor. Beginning to act in 1952, his career spanned over four decades until his death in 1996. He is best recognized among tokusatsu fans as SSSP Captain Muramatsu in the original Ultraman and Takeshi Hongo's mentor Tobee Tachibana in the original Kamen Rider. Toward the end of his career, he also entered the Godzilla series as Ryuzo Dobashi in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and vs. Mothra. He passed away four years later on August 27, 1996 due to lung cancer.
Selected filmography
- Ultra Q (TV 1966) as Lieutenant Colonel Amano [episode 19]
- Ultraman (TV 1966-1967) as Captain Toshio Muramatsu [recurring]
- Ultraseven (TV 1967-1968) as Sato [episode 47]
- Operation: Mystery (TV 1968-1969) as Inspector Taizo Machida [recurring]
- Return of Ultraman (TV 1971-1972) as Captain Takamura [episodes 13-14]
- Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) as Akira Koyama [episode 6]
- Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) as Hitoshi Suzuki
- The Unbalance Zone (TV 1973) as Nishiguchi [episode 5]
- Ultra Q the Movie (1990) as detective
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) as Ryuzo Dobashi
- Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) as Ryuzo Dobashi
- Getting Any? (1995) as Earth Defense Force captain
- Ultraman: Towards the Future (TV 1995) as Captain Arthur Grant [voice; Japanese dub]
- Ultraman Forever (1996) as Toshio Muramatsu [redubbed stock footage]
- Ultraman Zearth (1996) as fisherman
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) as senior infantry officer
- Ultraman Zearth 2 (1997) as fisherman [photo; posthumous]
External links
- Akiji Kobayashi on Ultraman Wiki
- Akiji Kobayashi on Kamen Rider Wiki
- Akiji Kobayashi on the Japanese Wikipedia
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Notes
- ↑ Sources have variously described Kobayashi's birth day as September 6 and September 26. For the purposes of this page, September 26 will be treated as correct based on the most recent available source, Kamen Rider Kaijin Pictorial 2016 (p. 188).
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