Kaoru Kobayashi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1951-09-04

Place of Birth

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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Kaoru Kobayashi

Biography

Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.

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Acting History

2025
1972 Fireflies on the Shore as Taiei Tamashiro
2025
The Last Blossom as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
Sham
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai as 仙川鶴一
2024
Promised Land
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
The Tiger and Her Wings as 穗高重亲
2023
Kubi as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023
The Boy and the Heron as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
THE DAYS as Furuya
2023
Fixer as Ichiro Suzaki
2023
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon as Shigezo Kojima
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic as Shoichi Hoshino
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim as Professor Kamoshita
2022
Winter Rose as Giichi Wataguchi
2021
Solomon's Perjury as 津崎 正男
2021
Arc as Rihito
2021
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet as Hirotaro Yamane
2020
Independence of Japan
2020
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku as Kotaki Reiji
2020
Off the Record as Noto Toru
2019
Top League
2019
The Great White Tower as Mataichi Zaizen
2019
The Island of Cats as Iwao
2019
His Lost Name as Tetsuro
2018
Miracles as Shun Samejima
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Hagetaka as Ryosuke Iijima
2017
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store as Takeo Matsuoka
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku as Shozo Yatabe
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day as Seiichi Morita
2017
Grade A Reversal
2017
Heaven as Doizaki Gen
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You as Nakagawa Akiko
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" as Jisaku Koka
2016
Midnight Diner 2 as Master
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories as Master
2016
Natsumi's Firefly as Sakakiyama
2016
Hibana: Spark
2016
Botchan as Madonna’s father
2015
Godan
2015
Koinaka as Hirotoshi Serizawa
2015
The Emperor's Cook
2014
Midnight Diner as Master
2014
Climbing to Spring as Isao Nagamine
2014
Hello life from 55
2014
Villiany Ganbo as Gen Koshimizu
2013
The End of Summer as Shingo Kosugi
2013
Woman as Uesugi Kentaro
2013
Trembling Cow
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring as Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
The Great Passage as Kohei Araki
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody as Masashi Sera
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2012
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
Carnation as Zensaku Ohara
2011
Castle of Sand as Imanishi Eitaro
2011
The Castle of Sand
2011
The Egoists as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
The Marriage Counselor as Syogo Yanagisawa
2010
Sketches of Kaitan City as Ryuzo Higa
2010
Abraxas
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Haru's Journey as Kinoshita
2010
Boys on the Run as Suzuki san
2009
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
Midnight Diner as Master
2009
Kamui as Hanbei
2009
The Sun in Kurobe as Kunpei Takiyama
2008
Then Summer Came
2008
Vacation as Toru Hirai
2008
Double Trouble
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Oton
2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya as Yasutada Kamiya
2006
Tales from Earthsea as The King (voice)
2005
A Melody for My Father
2005
Female as Old man
2004
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog as Mitsuru Watanabe
2003
Like Asura as Takao Satomi
2003
Dr. Coto's Clinic as 星野正一
2002
Ten Dark Women
2002
Ghiblies: Episode 2 as Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002
The Private Detective Mike
1999
The Black House
1999
Secret as Heisuke Sugita
1999
The Washing Machine as Taiji Ogami
1999
Coquille as Tatsuya Urayama
1998
Ten urara as 松尾良治
1997
Princess Mononoke as Jikobo (voice)
1996
ナニワ金融道 as 桑田 澄男
1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1994
Uneasy Encounters
1993
Chibusa
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce as Yoshinori Ishino
1993
Sunflower on the Hill as Yuzuhara Kohei
1993
The Last U-Boat as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1991
Shimanto River
1990
Hong Kong Paradise as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
Untamagiru as Giru
1988
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches as Saitô (voice)
1987
Iki no Iiyatsu
1986
For Business as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
And Then as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985
Love Letter as Tetsushi Kamiya
1985
Paradise View as Reishu Goya
1984
The Funeral as Inose
1984
The Wangan Highway as Nakamura
1984
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1983
ふぞろいの林檎たち as 仲手川 耕一
1983
The Second Love as Hideo Hyuga
1982
The Dropout
1982
Toge no Gunzo
1981
Hear the Wind Sing as Me
1981
Call from Darkness as Tatsuo Tamura
1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea as Eisuke Morimoto
1977
Ballad of Orin as Torazo
1976
The Sea of Genkai