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