Kaoru Kobayashi
Born
September 4, 1951 (73 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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
Sham
2025
The Last Blossom
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
仙川鶴一 · (3 episodes)
2024
Promised Land
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
The Tiger and Her Wings
穗高重亲 · (130 episodes)
2024
Kubi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Yamagami Tatsuo · (10 episodes)
2023
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
THE DAYS
Furuya · (8 episodes)
2023
Fixer
Ichiro Suzaki · (15 episodes)
2023
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
2023
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Shoichi Hoshino
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
Professor Kamoshita
2022
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
2022
Solomon's Perjury
津崎 正男 · (8 episodes)
2021
Arc
Rihito
2021
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] · (41 episodes)
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Hirotaro Yamane
2021
Independence of Japan
2020
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Kotaki Reiji · (1 episode)
2020
Off the Record
Noto Toru · (10 episodes)
2020
Top League
(6 episodes)
2019
The Great White Tower
Mataichi Zaizen · (5 episodes)
2019
The Island of Cats
Iwao
2019
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
2019
Miracles
Shun Samejima · (10 episodes)
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Hagetaka
Ryosuke Iijima · (8 episodes)
2018
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Takeo Matsuoka
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku
Shozo Yatabe
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Seiichi Morita
2017
Grade A Reversal
(10 episodes)
2017
Heaven
Doizaki Gen · (6 episodes)
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
2017
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Jisaku Koka
2016
Midnight Diner 2
Master
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Master · (20 episodes)
2016
Natsumi's Firefly
Sakakiyama
2016
Hibana: Spark
(10 episodes)
2016
Botchan
Madonna’s father
2016
Godan
(6 episodes)
2015
Best Friends in Love
Serizawa Hirotoshi · (9 episodes)
2015
The Emperor's Cook
(12 episodes)
2015
Midnight Diner
Master
2014
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
2014
Hello life from 55
(5 episodes)
2014
Villiany Ganbo
Gen Koshimizu · (11 episodes)
2014
The End of Summer
Shingo Kosugi
2013
Woman
Uesugi Kentaro · (11 episodes)
2013
Trembling Cow
(5 episodes)
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
The Great Passage
Kohei Araki
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
(1 episode)
2013
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
Self - Narrator (voice) · (2 episodes)
2012
Carnation
Zensaku Ohara · (151 episodes)
2011
The Castle of Sand
(2 episodes)
2011
The Egoists
Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
The Marriage Counselor
Syogo Yanagisawa · (11 episodes)
2011
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
2010
Abraxas
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
2010
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
2010
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
(11 episodes)
2009
Midnight Diner
Master · (30 episodes)
2009
Kamui
Hanbei
2009
The Sun in Kurobe
Kunpei Takiyama · (2 episodes)
2009
Then Summer Came
2008
Vacation
Toru Hirai
2008
Double Trouble
2008
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Oton
2007
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
2006
Tales from Earthsea
The King (voice)
2006
Female
Old man
2005
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Mitsuru Watanabe
2004
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
2003
Dr. Coto's Clinic
星野正一 · (11 episodes)
2003
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002
The Private Detective Mike
(1 episode)
2002
The Black House
1999
Secret
Heisuke Sugita
1999
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
1999
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
1999
Ten urara
松尾良治 · (156 episodes)
1998
Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
1997
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
ナニワ金融道
桑田 澄男 · (6 episodes)
1996
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Chibusa
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
1993
Sunflower on the Hill
Yuzuhara Kohei · (12 episodes)
1993
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1993
Shimanto River
1991
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
1990
Untamagiru
Giru
1989
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
1987
Iki no Iiyatsu
(23 episodes)
1987
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
1986
And Then
Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
1985
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
1985
The Funeral
Inose
1984
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
1984
ふぞろいの林檎たち
仲手川 耕一 · (13 episodes)
1983
The Second Love
Hideo Hyuga
1983
The Dropout
1982
Toge no Gunzo
(50 episodes)
1982
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
1981
Call from Darkness
Tatsuo Tamura
1981
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
1979
Ballad of Orin
Torazo
1977
The Sea of Genkai
1976