Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting
Born: September 4, 1951 (age 74) · Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, 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 (4)
Movies (83)
Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
Tales from Earthsea
The King (voice)
The Last Blossom
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Hirotaro Yamane
The Second Love
Hideo Hyuga
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Takeo Matsuoka
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Shoichi Hoshino
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
Midnight Diner
Master
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Fujiwara Yosuke
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Mitsuru Watanabe
Sham
2025
Secret
Heisuke Sugita
Mukoku
Shozo Yatabe
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Oton
The Island of Cats
Iwao
Kubi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
Midnight Diner 2
Master
Kamui
Hanbei
Ballad of Orin
Torazo
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
The Funeral
Inose
Uneasy Encounters
1994
The Egoists
Kazuyuki Ninomiya
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
The Great Passage
Kohei Araki
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Seiichi Morita
Female
Old man
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
Natsumi's Firefly
Sakakiyama
The End of Summer
Shingo Kosugi
Untamagiru
Giru
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Jisaku Koka
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
Call from Darkness
Tatsuo Tamura
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
The Black House
1999
Arc
Rihito
The Dropout
Miura
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Mamoru Fujita
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
Botchan
Madonna’s father
Then Summer Came
2008
And Then
Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
Yes, I Can't Swim
Professor Kamoshita
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
A Crowd of Three
2010
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
Leaving on the 15th Spring
Toshiharu Nakazato
Vacation
Toru Hirai
Le Secret
杉田平介
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
Shimanto River
1991
Double Trouble
2008
The Sea of Genkai
1976
Independence of Japan
2020
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
Abraxas
2010
Chibusa
1993
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
Lear on the Shore
2017
Ten Dark Women
2002
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
Promised Land
2024
A Melody for My Father
2005
TV Shows (40)
Midnight Diner
Master · 30 eps
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Master · 20 eps
Dr. Coto's Clinic
星野正一 · 11 eps
Carnation
Zensaku Ohara · 151 eps
THE DAYS
Furuya · 8 eps
Solomon's Perjury
Masao Tsuzaki · 8 eps
The Tiger and Her Wings
穗高重亲 · 130 eps
Ten urara
松尾良治 · 156 eps
Koinaka
Hirotoshi Serizawa · 9 eps
Woman
Uesugi Kentaro · 11 eps
Hibana: Spark
10 eps
The Private Detective Mike
1 eps
Fixer
Ichiro Suzaki · 15 eps
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] · 41 eps
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
Taiei Tamashiro · 5 eps
The Emperor's Cook
12 eps
Grade A Reversal
10 eps
The Great White Tower
Mataichi Zaizen · 5 eps
Toge no Gunzo
50 eps
Off the Record
Noto Toru · 10 eps
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Kotaki Reiji · 1 eps
Villiany Ganbo
Gen Koshimizu · 11 eps
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
11 eps
ふぞろいの林檎たち
仲手川 耕一 · 13 eps
Trembling Cow
5 eps
Heaven
Doizaki Gen · 6 eps
Hagetaka
Ryosuke Iijima · 8 eps
Miracles
Shun Samejima · 10 eps
Top League
6 eps
Iki no Iiyatsu
23 eps
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Yamagami Tatsuo · 10 eps
The Castle of Sand
2 eps
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Tsuruichi Senkawa · 1 eps
Hello Life from 55
5 eps
The Marriage Counselor
Syogo Yanagisawa · 11 eps
Godan
6 eps
The Sun in Kurobe
Kunpei Takiyama · 2 eps
憶えのない殺人
佐治英雄 · 2 eps
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
1 eps
Sunflower on the Hill
Yuzuhara Kohei · 12 eps
