Katsuya Kobayashi
Also Known As: KORBY, 小林 克也, Kobayashi Katsuya
Biography: KORBY or Katsuya Kobayashi is a Japanese voice actor, disc jockey and narrator. He provided the voice of the Build Driver and Nebulasteam Gun in Kamen Rider Build. He also provided the voice of the Kamen Rider Build Gashat. He was also the chorus of the New Kamen Rider song Kagayake! Hachinin Rider, which was the theme of Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King and the second ending of the show.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Japan
Birthday: March 27, 1941
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Gender: Male
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Fifth Movement
Overview: When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Salaryman Senka
Overview: Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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Little DJ
Overview: Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-15
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One Day in Shimokitazawa
Overview: Airi works at a small record shop in the town of Shimokitazawa. One day, while at a nearby thrift store, Airi encounters a shoplifting incident. The shoplifter apprehended by the detective explains that they stole the T-shirt to sell it and make money to buy a rare record. The elusive record the shoplifter was searching for is a mythical record called a “Ghost Record,” a nonexistent record conjured by the desires of record collectors. After hearing the title was called “One Day In SHIMOKITAZAWA,” Airi becomes interested in the record and eventually falls victim to a scam on a website selling “One Day In SHIMOKITAZAWA.” Seeing Airi distressed by the scam, the people of Shimokitazawa come up with an idea...
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-17
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Woman in Witness Protection
Overview: Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Revolver
Overview: When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-22
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Kamen Rider Prime Rogue
Overview: This special takes place before episode 42 of the Kamen Rider Build TV series. Misora, who has gotten irritated with Gentoku’s Fashion Sense, takes him out for shopping to buy new clothes. Over there he meets a boy but...
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-03
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Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
Overview: After the end of the civil war that tore apart Japan, the new governors of Touto, Hokuto and Seito work together to reunify the country. However, they are actually members of an extraterrestrial race called the "Blood Tribe" (the same species as Evolto), who assumed their government positions as part of a plan to destroy Earth as they have done to Mars and other planets before. Considering Sento Kiryū (Kamen Rider Build) a major threat to their plans, the Blood Tribe manipulates his friends and other civilians into attacking him. With even his close ally Ryūga Banjō (Kamen Rider Cross-Z) now against him, Sento must fight to survive and stop the Blood Tribe's plan from succeeding.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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The Crazy Family
Overview: The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the Kobayashis' house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Father Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them from the asylum… at any cost.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-24
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Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders
Overview: Kamen Riders Build and Ex-Aid team up with the legendary heroes of the Heisei Generation - OOO, Fourze, Gaim, and Ghost.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z
Overview: Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z is a post-series V-Cinema film of Kamen Rider Build. It will focus on the character of Ryuga Banjo, Kamen Rider Cross-Z, along with Kamen Rider Prime Rogue. It was announced immediately following the broadcast of the final episode of Kamen Rider Build. The film will have a limited theatrical release in Japanese theaters before its home video release. This is the last Kamen Rider movie to be released in the Heisei era.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Kamen Rider Build: Birth! Bear Televi!! VS Kamen Rider Grease!
Overview: Kamen Rider Build: Birth! Bear Televi!! VS Kamen Rider Grease! is a Televi-Kun Hyper Battle DVD for Kamen Rider Build featuring the exclusive appearance of Build's Bear Televi Form. This special takes place between episodes 18 and 19. It reveals the origin of the Hokuto Three Crows' dog tags.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-14
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Taro! Momotaro in Trouble
Overview: A young boy gets caught up in the machinations of a new religious order, that seeks to revive demonic beings.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-25
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Lensman
Overview: In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-07
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The Great War of Archimedes
Overview: It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.
Genres: War Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Why Do I Choose?
Overview: Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-26
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Rent-a-Cat
Overview: A single woman runs an unconventional service that rents housecats to lonely people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Ramen Heads
Overview: In Ramen Heads, Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup and noodles, and his relentless search for the highest-quality ingredients.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Overview: A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-17
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Reiko, Sister of the Mob
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-16
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The Man With No Name
Overview: A detective infiltrates the yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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