Kaoru Kobayashi
Born: 1951-09-04 in Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Sham
- 1972 Fireflies on the Shore as Taiei Tamashiro
- The Last Blossom as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
- Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2024
- The Tiger and Her Wings as 穗高重亲
- Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai as 仙川鶴一
- The Yin Yang Master Zero as Fujiwara Yosuke
- Promised Land
2023
- The Boy and the Heron as Noble Pelican (voice)
- THE DAYS as Furuya
- Worry Not, She's the Boss as Yamagami Tatsuo
- Kubi as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Fixer as Ichiro Suzaki
- Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
- Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
- Trapped Balloon as Shigezo Kojima
2022
- Dr. Coto's Clinic as Shoichi Hoshino
- Winter Rose as Giichi Wataguchi
- Yes, I Can't Swim as Professor Kamoshita
2021
- We Made a Beautiful Bouquet as Hirotaro Yamane
- Reach Beyond the Blue Sky as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
- Solomon's Perjury as 津崎 正男
- Arc as Rihito
2020
- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku as Kotaki Reiji
- Off the Record as Noto Toru
- Independence of Japan
2019
- Top League
- The Great White Tower as Mataichi Zaizen
- The Island of Cats as Iwao
- His Lost Name as Tetsuro
2018
- Hagetaka as Ryosuke Iijima
- Miracles as Shun Samejima
- The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2017
- Heaven as Doizaki Gen
- The Miracles of the Namiya General Store as Takeo Matsuoka
- Kiseki: Sobito of That Day as Seiichi Morita
- Mukoku as Shozo Yatabe
- Grade A Reversal
- Lear on the Shore
- An Emblem Dedicated To You as Nakagawa Akiko
2016
- Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories as Master
- Hibana: Spark
- Midnight Diner 2 as Master
- Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" as Jisaku Koka
- Natsumi's Firefly as Sakakiyama
- Botchan as Madonna’s father
2015
- Koinaka as Hirotoshi Serizawa
- The Emperor's Cook
- Godan
2014
- Midnight Diner as Master
- Villiany Ganbo as Gen Koshimizu
- Climbing to Spring as Isao Nagamine
- Hello Life from 55
2013
- Woman as Uesugi Kentaro
- The Great Passage as Kohei Araki
- Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
- Trembling Cow
- The End of Summer as Shingo Kosugi
- Leaving on the 15th Spring as Toshiharu Nakazato
- Kyokuhoku Rhapsody as Masashi Sera
2012
- Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
- Carnation as Zensaku Ohara
- The Egoists as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
- The Marriage Counselor as Syogo Yanagisawa
- The Castle of Sand
2010
- Sketches of Kaitan City as Ryuzo Higa
- A Crowd of Three
- Boys on the Run as Suzuki san
- Haru's Journey as Kinoshita
- Abraxas
2009
- Midnight Diner as Master
- News Sokuho wa Nagareta
- Kamui as Hanbei
- The Sun in Kurobe as Kunpei Takiyama
2008
- Then Summer Came
- Double Trouble
- Vacation as Toru Hirai
2007
2006
- Tales from Earthsea as The King (voice)
- The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya as Yasutada Kamiya
2005
- Female as Old man
- A Melody for My Father
2004
- Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog as Mitsuru Watanabe
2003
- Dr. Coto's Clinic as 星野正一
- Like Asura as Takao Satomi
2002
- The Private Detective Mike
- Ghiblies: Episode 2 as Toshi-chan (Voice)
- Ten Dark Women
1999
- Secret as Heisuke Sugita
- The Black House
- The Washing Machine as Taiji Ogami
- Coquille as Tatsuya Urayama
- Le Secret as 杉田平介
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
- The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1994
1993
- The Last U-Boat as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
- Chibusa
- The Tomb & the Divorce as Yoshinori Ishino
- Sunflower on the Hill as Yuzuhara Kohei
1991
1990
- Hong Kong Paradise as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
- Untamagiru as Giru
1988
- Love and Action in Osaka
- Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1987
- Iki no Iiyatsu
- Twilight of the Cockroaches as Saitô (voice)
1986
- For Business as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
- And Then as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
- Love Letter as Tetsushi Kamiya
- Paradise View as Reishu Goya
1984
- The Funeral as Inose
- The Wangan Highway as Nakamura
- 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
- The Second Love as Hideo Hyuga
1982
- Toge no Gunzo
- The Dropout as Miura
1981
- Call from Darkness as Tatsuo Tamura
- Hear the Wind Sing as Me
1979
- Eighteen Years, to the Sea as Eisuke Morimoto
1977
- Ballad of Orin as Torazo