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- Yukiko Kobayashi was born on October 6, 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Les envahisseurs attaquent (1968), Urutora sebun (1967) and Les Envahisseurs de l'espace (1970).
- Exotic actress who originally rejected acting to continue her education, despite repeated offers from the Toho Company. When she failed her university entrance exams, she relented and auditioned for Toho, enrolling in the studio's actor training studio. She debuted in film in 1966 in one of Ishirô Honda's rare non-science fiction projects Oyome ni oide (1966). She appeared in two kaiju films for Honda - Les envahisseurs attaquent (1968) (as the alien possessed female lead), and Les Envahisseurs de l'espace (1970) (as an island girl) - and turned in an eerie performance as the eponymous character in Michio Yamamoto's Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu: Chi wo sû ningyô (1970). She retired from acting shortly afterwards.
- Kobayashi appeared in the Kaijucast original documentary Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction (2015) in a special interview segment alongside actors Akira Takarada, Akira Kubo, and Yoshio Tsuchiya, where she reminisced about her experiences working in kaiju films.
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