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Kaoru Kobayashi

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.

Acting History

2025
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
The Tiger and Her Wings
TVas 穗高重亲130 eps
2023
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
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]
2018
Miracles
TVas Shun Samejima
Hagetaka
TVas Ryosuke Iijima
2016
2015
Koinaka
TVas Hirotoshi Serizawa
2014
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
Villiany Ganbo
TVas Gen Koshimizu
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 Ohara151 eps
The Marriage Counselor
TVas Syogo Yanagisawa
2009
Kamui
as Hanbei
Midnight Diner
TVas Master30 eps
The Sun in Kurobe
TVas Kunpei Takiyama
2006
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
Dr. Coto's Clinic
TVas 星野正一11 eps
2004
2003
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
1999
The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
1998
Ten urara
TVas 松尾良治
1997
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1993
The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino
Sunflower on the Hill
TVas Yuzuhara Kohei
1990
Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
Untamagiru
as Giru
1988
1986
For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
Love Letter
as Tetsushi Kamiya
And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Paradise View
as Reishu Goya
1983
The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga
ふぞろいの林檎たち
TVas 仲手川 耕一
1981
1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
as Eisuke Morimoto
1977

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/4/1951(74 years old)
Place of Birth
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan