Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting
Born: September 4, 1951 (age 75) · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Highest Rated
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
Princess Mononoke
1997
The Boy and the Heron
2023
Tales from Earthsea
2006
THE DAYS
2023
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Midnight Diner
2009
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Midnight Diner
2014
The Great Passage
2013
The Funeral
1984
Kamui
2009
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
Photos (2)
Movies (83)
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
Tales from Earthsea
The King (voice)
The Last Blossom
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
Secret
Heisuke Sugita
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Hirotaro Yamane
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Shoichi Hoshino
The Funeral
Inose
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Mamoru Fujita
The Egoists
Kazuyuki Ninomiya
Midnight Diner 2
Master
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
Yes, I Can't Swim
Professor Kamoshita
Ballad of Orin
Torazo
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
Arc
Rihito
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Mitsuru Watanabe
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
Untamagiru
Giru
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Takeo Matsuoka
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Seiichi Morita
Midnight Diner
Master
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Oton
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
A Crowd of Three
2010
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Sham
2025
The Second Love
Hideo Hyuga
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
The Great Passage
Kohei Araki
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Fujiwara Yosuke
Kubi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Kamui
Hanbei
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
Mukoku
Shozo Yatabe
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
Natsumi's Firefly
Sakakiyama
The Black House
1999
The Sea of Genkai
1976
Lear on the Shore
2017
Le Secret
杉田平介
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Jisaku Koka
And Then
Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
Botchan
Madonna’s father
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
The Island of Cats
Iwao
Promised Land
2024
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
Call from Darkness
Tatsuo Tamura
Leaving on the 15th Spring
Toshiharu Nakazato
The End of Summer
Shingo Kosugi
Vacation
Toru Hirai
The Dropout
Miura
Abraxas
2010
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
Double Trouble
2008
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
Ten Dark Women
2002
Shimanto River
1991
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
Female
Old man
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
A Melody for My Father
2005
Independence of Japan
2020
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
Then Summer Came
2008
Chibusa
1993
TV Shows (39)
Carnation
Zensaku Ohara · 151 eps
The Tiger and Her Wings
Hodaka Shigechika · 130 eps
Ten urara
松尾良治 · 156 eps
Midnight Diner
Master · 30 eps
Toge no Gunzo
50 eps
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Master · 20 eps
Dr. Coto's Clinic
星野正一 · 11 eps
THE DAYS
Furuya · 8 eps
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] · 41 eps
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Kotaki Reiji · 1 eps
The Private Detective Mike
1 eps
Fixer
Ichiro Suzaki · 15 eps
ふぞろいの林檎たち
仲手川 耕一 · 13 eps
Woman
Uesugi Kentaro · 11 eps
Hibana: Spark
10 eps
Grade A Reversal
10 eps
Hagetaka
Ryosuke Iijima · 8 eps
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
11 eps
The Emperor's Cook
12 eps
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Yamagami Tatsuo · 10 eps
Off the Record
Noto Toru · 10 eps
Solomon's Perjury
Masao Tsuzaki · 8 eps
Koinaka
Hirotoshi Serizawa · 9 eps
The Great White Tower
Mataichi Zaizen · 5 eps
Iki no Iiyatsu
23 eps
The Marriage Counselor
Syogo Yanagisawa · 11 eps
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
Taiei Tamashiro · 5 eps
Miracles
Shun Samejima · 10 eps
Villiany Ganbo
Gen Koshimizu · 11 eps
Heaven
Doizaki Gen · 6 eps
Trembling Cow
5 eps
Top League
6 eps
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Tsuruichi Senkawa · 1 eps
The Castle of Sand
2 eps
Hello Life from 55
5 eps
Godan
Takao Anjo · 6 eps
Sunflower on the Hill
Yuzuhara Kohei · 12 eps
憶えのない殺人
佐治英雄 · 2 eps
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
1 eps
