Kaoru Kobayashi

Known For: Acting
Born: September 4, 1951
Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Kaoru Kobayashi

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.

Filmography

1972 Fireflies on the Shore

2025 · Taiei Tamashiro

The Last Blossom

2025 · Akutsu (1986) (voice)

Sham

2025

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2025

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

2024 · 仙川鶴一

Promised Land

2024

The Yin Yang Master Zero

2024 · Fujiwara Yosuke

The Tiger and Her Wings

2024 · 穗高重亲

Kubi

2023 · Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

2023

Worry Not, She's the Boss

2023 · Yamagami Tatsuo

The Boy and the Heron

2023 · Noble Pelican (voice)

THE DAYS

2023 · Furuya

Fixer

2023 · Ichiro Suzaki

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

2023

Trapped Balloon

2023 · Shigezo Kojima

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2022 · Shoichi Hoshino

Yes, I Can't Swim

2022 · Professor Kamoshita

Winter Rose

2022 · Giichi Wataguchi

Solomon's Perjury

2021 · 津崎正男

Arc

2021 · Rihito

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

2021 · Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021 · Hirotaro Yamane

Independence of Japan

2020

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

2020 · Kotaki Reiji

Off the Record

2020 · Noto Toru

Top League

2019

The Great White Tower

2019 · Mataichi Zaizen

The Island of Cats

2019 · Iwao

His Lost Name

2019 · Tetsuro

Miracles

2018 · Shun Samejima

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018

Hagetaka

2018 · Ryosuke Iijima

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

2017 · Takeo Matsuoka

Lear on the Shore

2017

Mukoku

2017 · Shozo Yatabe

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

2017 · Seiichi Morita

Grade A Reversal

2017

Heaven

2017 · Doizaki Gen

An Emblem Dedicated To You

2017 · Nakagawa Akiko

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

2016 · Jisaku Koka

Midnight Diner 2

2016 · Master

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016 · Master

Natsumi's Firefly

2016 · Sakakiyama

Hibana: Spark

2016

Botchan

2016 · Madonna’s father

Godan

2015

Koinaka

2015 · Hirotoshi Serizawa

The Emperor's Cook

2015

Midnight Diner

2014 · Master

Climbing to Spring

2014 · Isao Nagamine

Hello Life from 55

2014

Villiany Ganbo

2014 · Gen Koshimizu

The End of Summer

2013 · Shingo Kosugi

Woman

2013 · Uesugi Kentaro

Trembling Cow

2013

Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013 · Toshiharu Nakazato

The Great Passage

2013 · Kohei Araki

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013 · Masashi Sera

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

2012 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Carnation

2011 · Zensaku Ohara

The Castle of Sand

2011

The Egoists

2011 · Kazuyuki Ninomiya

The Marriage Counselor

2011 · Syogo Yanagisawa, Creator

Sketches of Kaitan City

2010 · Ryuzo Higa

Abraxas

2010

A Crowd of Three

2010

Haru's Journey

2010 · Kinoshita

Boys on the Run

2010 · Suzuki san

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

2009

Midnight Diner

2009 · Master

Kamui

2009 · Hanbei

The Sun in Kurobe

2009 · Kunpei Takiyama

Then Summer Came

2008

Vacation

2008 · Toru Hirai

Double Trouble

2008

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007 · Oton

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

2006 · Yasutada Kamiya

Tales from Earthsea

2006 · The King (voice)

A Melody for My Father

2005

Female

2005 · Old man

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004 · Mitsuru Watanabe

Like Asura

2003 · Takao Satomi

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2003 · 星野正一

Ten Dark Women

2002

Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002 · Toshi-chan (Voice)

The Private Detective Mike

2002

Le Secret

1999 · 杉田平介

The Black House

1999

Secret

1999 · Heisuke Sugita

The Washing Machine

1999 · Taiji Ogami

Coquille

1999 · Tatsuya Urayama

Ten urara

1998 · 松尾良治

Princess Mononoke

1997 · Jikobo (voice)

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1996

ナニワ金融道

ナニワ金融道

1996 · 桑田澄男

Uneasy Encounters

1994

Chibusa

1993

The Tomb & the Divorce

1993 · Yoshinori Ishino

Sunflower on the Hill

1993 · Yuzuhara Kohei

The Last U-Boat

1993 · Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

Shimanto River

1991

Hong Kong Paradise

1990 · Hachirou Ooishi

Untamagiru

1989 · Giru

Love and Action in Osaka

1988

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1988 · Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987 · Saitô (voice)

Iki no Iiyatsu

1987

For Business

1986 · Miyabi Sakuramiya

And Then

1985 · Tsunejiro Hiraoka

Love Letter

1985 · Tetsushi Kamiya

Paradise View

1985 · Reishu Goya

The Funeral

1984 · Inose

The Wangan Highway

1984 · Nakamura

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

1984

ふぞろいの林檎たち

1983 · 仲手川耕一

The Second Love

1983 · Hideo Hyuga

The Dropout

1982 · Miura

Toge no Gunzo

1982

Hear the Wind Sing

1981 · Me

Call from Darkness

1981 · Tatsuo Tamura

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

1979 · Eisuke Morimoto

Ballad of Orin

1977 · Torazo

The Sea of Genkai

1976

Kaoru Kobayashi · Virelixia