Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting1951Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Known For
Acting History
2025
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
The Tiger and Her Wings
TVas 穗高重亲• 130 eps
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
TVas 仙川鶴一
2023
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
A következő napok
TVas Furuya
Fixer
TVas Ichiro Suzaki
Worry Not, She's the Boss
TVas Yamagami Tatsuo
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)• 4 eps
2021
Arc
as Rihito
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
Solomon's Perjury
TVas 津崎 正男
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
TVas Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2020
2019
2018
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka
Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko
Heaven
TVas Doizaki Gen
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
Midnight Diner 2
as Master
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
TVas Master• 20 eps
2015
2014
2013
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
Woman
TVas Uesugi Kentaro
2011
The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
Carnation
TVas Zensaku Ohara• 151 eps
The Marriage Counselor
TVas Syogo Yanagisawa
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
Dr. Coto's Clinic
TVas 星野正一• 11 eps
2005
Female
as Old man
2004
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
2003
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
2002
1999
1998
Ten urara
TVas 松尾良治
1997
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1996
ナニワ金融道
TVas 桑田 澄男
1993
The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino
Sunflower on the Hill
TVas Yuzuhara Kohei
1991
1990
Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
Untamagiru
as Giru
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Saitô (voice)
1986
For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
1984
1983
The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga
ふぞろいの林檎たち
TVas 仲手川 耕一
1982
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