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