Toshiko Kobayashi
Toshiko Kobayashi was a Japanese actress active from 1949 to 1980.
She joined the Nichigeki Dancing Team in 1946. In 1949, she was discovered by film director Keisuke Kinoshita and gave her film debut in his comedy Broken Drum. Under contract with the Shochiku film studios, she starred in many films of Kinoshita and Masaki Kobayashi.
She was married to new wave film director Hiroshi Teshigahara from 1956 until his death in 2001, with whom she had three daughters: Kiri Teshigahara, Akane Teshigahara, and Sakura Teshigahara.
Selected filmography
- 1949: Broken Drum – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1951: The Good Fairy – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1951: Carmen Comes Home – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1951: Boyhood – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1951: Fireworks over the Sea – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1952: Gendai-jin – dir. Minoru Shibuya
- 1952: Carmen's Pure Love – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1953: New Tokyo March – dir. Yuzo Kawashima
- 1955: Twenty-Four Eyes – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1954: Somewhere Under the Broad Sky – dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- 1955: She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1955: Beautiful Days – dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- 1955: The Tattered Wings – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1956: Fountainhead – dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- 1956: The Thick-Walled Room – dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- 1957: The Story of Pure Love – dir. Tadashi Imai
- 1957: Danger Stalks Near – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1959: Thus Another Day – dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1959: The Human Condition Pt. 1 + 2 – dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- 1960: Cruel Story of Youth – dir. Nagisa Ōshima
- 1963: The Hidden Profile – dir. Yoshiro Kawazu
- 1968: Black Lizard – dir. Kinji Fukasaku
- 1972: Summer Soldiers – dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
- 1980: Woman'' – dir. Yoichi Takabayashi