Kaoru Kobayashi

Known for: Acting
Born: September 4, 1951, Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Movies: 84

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.

Best-Known Movies

8.3

Princess Mononoke

1997

7.4

The Boy and the Heron

2023

6.5

Tales from Earthsea

2006

7.7

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021

7.7

Midnight Diner

2014

7.2

The Great Passage

2013

7.2

The Funeral

1984

6.1

Kamui

2009

7.0

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

2017

6.9

Kubi

2023

Filmography

2025	The Last Blossom	Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025	Sham
2025	Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2024	Promised Land
2024	The Yin Yang Master Zero	Fujiwara Yosuke
2023	Kubi	Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023	Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023	The Boy and the Heron	Noble Pelican (voice)
2023	Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023	Trapped Balloon	Shigezo Kojima
2022	Dr. Coto's Clinic	Shoichi Hoshino
2022	Yes, I Can't Swim	Professor Kamoshita
2022	Winter Rose	Giichi Wataguchi
2021	Arc	Rihito
2021	We Made a Beautiful Bouquet	Hirotaro Yamane
2020	Independence of Japan
2019	The Island of Cats	Iwao
2019	His Lost Name	Tetsuro
2018	The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan	Mamoru Fujita
2017	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	An Emblem Dedicated To You	Nakagawa Akiko
2016	Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"	Jisaku Koka
2016	Midnight Diner 2	Master
2016	Natsumi's Firefly	Sakakiyama
2016	Botchan	Madonna’s father
2014	Midnight Diner	Master
2014	Climbing to Spring	Isao Nagamine
2013	The End of Summer	Shingo Kosugi
2013	Leaving on the 15th Spring	Toshiharu Nakazato
2013	The Great Passage	Kohei Araki
2013	Kyokuhoku Rhapsody	Masashi Sera
2011	The Egoists	Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2010	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
2009	Kamui	Hanbei
2008	Then Summer Came
2008	Vacation	Toru Hirai
2008	Double Trouble
2007	Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Oton
2006	The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya	Yasutada Kamiya
2006	Tales from Earthsea	The King (voice)
2005	A Melody for My Father
2005	Female	Old man
2004	Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog	Mitsuru Watanabe
2003	Like Asura	Takao Satomi
2002	Ten Dark Women
2002	Ghiblies: Episode 2	Toshi-chan (Voice)
1999	Le Secret	杉田平介
1999	The Black House
1999	Secret	Heisuke Sugita
1999	The Washing Machine	Taiji Ogami
1999	Coquille	Tatsuya Urayama
1997	Princess Mononoke	Jikobo (voice)
1996	The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1994	Uneasy Encounters
1993	Chibusa
1993	The Tomb & the Divorce	Yoshinori Ishino
1993	The Last U-Boat	Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1991	Shimanto River
1990	Hong Kong Paradise	Hachirou Ooishi
1989	Untamagiru	Giru
1988	Love and Action in Osaka
1988	Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1987	Twilight of the Cockroaches	Saitô (voice)
1986	For Business	Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985	And Then	Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985	Love Letter	Tetsushi Kamiya
1985	Paradise View	Reishu Goya
1984	The Funeral	Inose
1984	The Wangan Highway	Nakamura
1984	Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1983	The Second Love	Hideo Hyuga
1982	The Dropout	Miura
1981	Hear the Wind Sing	Me
1981	Call from Darkness	Tatsuo Tamura
1979	Eighteen Years, to the Sea	Eisuke Morimoto
1977	Ballad of Orin	Torazo
1976	The Sea of Genkai

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