Kaoru Kobayashi
Known for acting · Born 4 September 1951 · 75 · Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
127 credits
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
Princess Mononoke
1997
Carnation
2011
Midnight Diner
2009
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024
Ten urara
1998
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
2021
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Midnight Diner
2014
The Emperor's Cook
2015
Kamui
2009
Tales from Earthsea
2006
Acting (126)
2025ShamFilm
2025The Last BlossomAkutsu (1986) (voice)Film
20251972 Fireflies on the ShoreTaiei Tamashiro · 5 episodesSeries
2025Oboe no Nai SatsujinFilm
2025憶えのない殺人佐治英雄 · 2 episodesSeries
2024The Yin Yang Master ZeroFujiwara YosukeFilm
2024Shrink: Psychiatrist YowaiTsuruichi SenkawaSeries
2024The Tiger and Her Wings穗高重亲 · 130 episodesSeries
2024Promised LandFilm
2023The Boy and the HeronNoble Pelican (voice)Film
2023THE DAYSFuruya · 8 episodesSeries
2023KubiTokugawa IeyasuFilm
2023FixerIchiro Suzaki · 15 episodesSeries
2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2Film
2023Tsugaru Lacquer GirlFilm
2023Worry Not, She's the BossYamagami Tatsuo · 10 episodesSeries
2023Trapped BalloonShigezo KojimaFilm
2022Yes, I Can't SwimProfessor KamoshitaFilm
2022Dr. Coto's ClinicShoichi HoshinoFilm
2022Winter RoseGiichi WataguchiFilm
2021We Made a Beautiful BouquetHirotaro YamaneFilm
2021ArcRihitoFilm
2021Solomon's PerjuryMasao Tsuzaki · 8 episodesSeries
2021Reach Beyond the Blue SkyShibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] · 41 episodesSeries
2020Off the RecordNoto Toru · 10 episodesSeries
2020Kotaki Brothers and ShikuhakkuKotaki ReijiSeries
2020Independence of JapanFilm
2019The Island of CatsIwaoFilm
2019Top League · 6 episodesSeries
2019His Lost NameTetsuroFilm
2019The Great White TowerMataichi Zaizen · 5 episodesSeries
2018MiraclesShun Samejima · 10 episodesSeries
2018The Miracle of Crybaby ShottanMamoru FujitaFilm
2018HagetakaRyosuke Iijima · 8 episodesSeries
2017The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreTakeo MatsuokaFilm
2017Lear on the ShoreFilm
2017Kiseki: Sobito of That DaySeiichi MoritaFilm
2017HeavenDoizaki Gen · 6 episodesSeries
2017MukokuShozo YatabeFilm
2017An Emblem Dedicated To YouNakagawa AkikoFilm
2017Grade A Reversal · 10 episodesSeries
2016Midnight Diner: Tokyo StoriesMaster · 20 episodesSeries
2016Midnight Diner 2MasterFilm
2016Hibana: Spark · 10 episodesSeries
2016Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"Jisaku KokaFilm
2016Natsumi's FireflySakakiyamaFilm
2016BotchanMadonna’s fatherFilm
2015The Emperor's Cook · 12 episodesSeries
2015KoinakaHirotoshi Serizawa · 9 episodesSeries
2015Godan · 6 episodesSeries
2014Midnight DinerMasterFilm
2014Climbing to SpringIsao NagamineFilm
2014Villiany GanboGen Koshimizu · 11 episodesSeries
2014Hello Life from 55 · 5 episodesSeries
2013The Great PassageKohei ArakiFilm
2013WomanUesugi Kentaro · 11 episodesSeries
2013The End of SummerShingo KosugiFilm
2013Leaving on the 15th SpringToshiharu NakazatoFilm
2013Trembling Cow · 5 episodesSeries
2013Kyokuhoku RhapsodyMasashi SeraFilm
2013Kyokuhoku RhapsodySeries
2012Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” TravelogueSelf - Narrator (voice) · 4 episodesSeries
2011The EgoistsKazuyuki NinomiyaFilm
2011CarnationZensaku Ohara · 151 episodesSeries
2011The Marriage CounselorSyogo Yanagisawa · 11 episodesSeries
2011The Castle of Sand · 2 episodesSeries
2010Boys on the RunSuzuki sanFilm
2010Haru's JourneyKinoshitaFilm
2010Sketches of Kaitan CityRyuzo HigaFilm
2010A Crowd of ThreeFilm
2010AbraxasFilm
2009Midnight DinerMaster · 30 episodesSeries
2009KamuiHanbeiFilm
2009News Sokuho wa Nagareta · 11 episodesSeries
2009The Sun in KurobeKunpei Takiyama · 2 episodesSeries
2008VacationToru HiraiFilm
2008Then Summer CameFilm
2008Double TroubleFilm
2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes DadOtonFilm
2006Tales from EarthseaThe King (voice)Film
2006The Blossoming of Etsuko KamiyaYasutada KamiyaFilm
2005FemaleOld manFilm
2005A Melody for My FatherFilm
2004Quill: The Life of a Guide DogMitsuru WatanabeFilm
2003Like AsuraTakao SatomiFilm
2003Dr. Coto's Clinic星野正一 · 11 episodesSeries
2002Ghiblies: Episode 2Toshi-chan (Voice)Film
2002The Private Detective MikeSeries
2002Ten Dark WomenFilm
1999SecretHeisuke SugitaFilm
1999The Black HouseFilm
1999CoquilleTatsuya UrayamaFilm
1999The Washing MachineTaiji OgamiFilm
1999Le Secret杉田平介Film
1998Ten urara松尾良治 · 156 episodesSeries
1997Princess MononokeJikobo (voice)Film
1996The Way of Osaka Financing 1Film
1996ナニワ金融道桑田 澄男 · 6 episodesSeries
1994Uneasy EncountersFilm
1993The Last U-BoatTatsumi - FregattenkapitänFilm
1993ChibusaFilm
1993The Tomb & the DivorceYoshinori IshinoFilm
1993Sunflower on the HillYuzuhara Kohei · 12 episodesSeries
1991Shimanto RiverFilm
1990Hong Kong ParadiseHachirou OoishiFilm
1989UntamagiruGiruFilm
1988Love and Action in OsakaFilm
1988Bakayaro! I'm Plenty MadShigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)Film
1987Twilight of the CockroachesSaitô (voice)Film
1987Iki no Iiyatsu · 23 episodesSeries
1986For BusinessMiyabi SakuramiyaFilm
1985And ThenTsunejiro HiraokaFilm
1985Love LetterTetsushi KamiyaFilm
1985Paradise ViewReishu GoyaFilm
1984The FuneralInoseFilm
1984The Wangan HighwayNakamuraFilm
1984Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!Film
1983The Second LoveHideo HyugaFilm
1983ふぞろいの林檎たち仲手川 耕一 · 13 episodesSeries
1982The DropoutMiuraFilm
1982Toge no Gunzo · 50 episodesSeries
1981Call from DarknessTatsuo TamuraFilm
1981Hear the Wind SingMeFilm
1979Eighteen Years, to the SeaEisuke MorimotoFilm
1977Ballad of OrinTorazoFilm
1976The Sea of GenkaiFilm
Creator (1)
2011The Marriage CounselorCreatorSeries