Kaoru Kobayashi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-09-04 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Known For
Acting
The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
(2025)
DETCHIAGE
as Toshio Yugatani
(2025)
(2025)
(2024)
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
(2024)
(2023)
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
(2023)
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
(2023)
(2023)
(2023)
Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
(2022)
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
(2022)
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
(2022)
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
(2021)
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
(2021)
Arc
as Rihito
(2020)
(2019)
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
(2019)
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
(2018)
(2017)
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka
(2017)
Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe
(2017)
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko
(2017)
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita
(2017)
(2016)
Midnight Diner 2
as Master
(2016)
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
(2016)
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
(2016)
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka
(2014)
Midnight Diner
as Master
(2014)
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
(2013)
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
(2013)
Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
(2013)
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
(2013)
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
(2011)
The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
(2010)
Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa
(2010)
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
(2010)
(2010)
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
(2010)
(2009)
Kamui
as Hanbei
(2008)
(2008)
Vacation
as Toru Hirai
(2008)
(2007)
(2006)
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
(2006)
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
(2005)
Female
as Old man
(2004)
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
(2003)
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
(2002)
Ghiblies: Episode 2
as Toshi-chan (Voice)
(1999)
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
(1999)
(1999)
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
(1999)
The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami
(1997)
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
(1996)
(1994)
(1993)
The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
(1993)
(1993)
The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino
(1991)
(1990)
Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi
(1989)
Untamagiru
as Giru
(1988)
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
(1988)
(1987)
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Saitô (voice)
(1986)
For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
(1985)
Love Letter
as Tetsushi Kamiya
(1985)
And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
(1985)
Paradise View
as Reishu Goya
(1984)
The Funeral
as Inose
(1984)
The Wangan Highway
as Nakamura
(1983)
The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga
(1982)
(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)