Kaoru Kobayashi

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

The Private Detective Mike

The Boy and the Heron

Midnight Diner

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

The Tiger and Her Wings

THE DAYS

All Movies (84)

• The Last Blossom2025 · as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
• Sham2025
• Oboe no Nai Satsujin2025
• Promised Land2024
• The Yin Yang Master Zero2024 · as Fujiwara Yosuke
• Kubi2023 · as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Tsugaru Lacquer Girl2023
• The Boy and the Heron2023 · as Noble Pelican (voice)
• Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 22023
• Trapped Balloon2023 · as Shigezo Kojima
• Dr. Coto's Clinic2022 · as Shoichi Hoshino
• Yes, I Can't Swim2022 · as Professor Kamoshita
• Winter Rose2022 · as Giichi Wataguchi
• Arc2021 · as Rihito
• We Made a Beautiful Bouquet2021 · as Hirotaro Yamane
• Independence of Japan2020
• The Island of Cats2019 · as Iwao
• His Lost Name2019 · as Tetsuro
• The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan2018
• The Miracles of the Namiya General Store2017 · as Takeo Matsuoka
• Lear on the Shore2017
• Mukoku2017 · as Shozo Yatabe
• Kiseki: Sobito of That Day2017 · as Seiichi Morita
• An Emblem Dedicated To You2017 · as Nakagawa Akiko
• Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"2016 · as Jisaku Koka
• Midnight Diner 22016 · as Master
• Natsumi's Firefly2016 · as Sakakiyama
• Botchan2016 · as Madonna’s father
• Midnight Diner2014 · as Master
• Climbing to Spring2014 · as Isao Nagamine
• The End of Summer2013 · as Shingo Kosugi
• Leaving on the 15th Spring2013 · as Toshiharu Nakazato
• The Great Passage2013 · as Kohei Araki
• Kyokuhoku Rhapsody2013 · as Masashi Sera
• The Egoists2011 · as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
• Sketches of Kaitan City2010 · as Ryuzo Higa
• Abraxas2010
• A Crowd of Three2010
• Haru's Journey2010 · as Kinoshita
• Boys on the Run2010 · as Suzuki san
• Kamui2009 · as Hanbei
• Then Summer Came2008
• Vacation2008 · as Toru Hirai
• Double Trouble2008
• Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad2007 · as Oton
• The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya2006 · as Yasutada Kamiya
• Tales from Earthsea2006 · as The King (voice)
• A Melody for My Father2005
• Female2005 · as Old man
• Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog2004 · as Mitsuru Watanabe
• Like Asura2003 · as Takao Satomi
• Ten Dark Women2002
• Ghiblies: Episode 22002 · as Toshi-chan (Voice)
• Le Secret1999 · as 杉田平介
• The Black House1999
• Secret1999 · as Heisuke Sugita
• The Washing Machine1999 · as Taiji Ogami
• Coquille1999 · as Tatsuya Urayama
• Princess Mononoke1997 · as Jikobo (voice)
• The Way of Osaka Financing 11996
• Uneasy Encounters1994
• Chibusa1993
• The Tomb & the Divorce1993 · as Yoshinori Ishino
• The Last U-Boat1993 · as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
• Shimanto River1991
• Hong Kong Paradise1990 · as Hachirou Ooishi
• Untamagiru1989 · as Giru
• Love and Action in Osaka1988
• Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad1988 · as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
• Twilight of the Cockroaches1987 · as Saitô (voice)
• For Business1986 · as Miyabi Sakuramiya
• And Then1985 · as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
• Love Letter1985 · as Tetsushi Kamiya
• Paradise View1985 · as Reishu Goya
• The Funeral1984 · as Inose
• The Wangan Highway1984 · as Nakamura
• Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!1984
• The Second Love1983 · as Hideo Hyuga
• The Dropout1982 · as Miura
• Hear the Wind Sing1981 · as Me
• Call from Darkness1981 · as Tatsuo Tamura
• Eighteen Years, to the Sea1979 · as Eisuke Morimoto
• Ballad of Orin1977 · as Torazo
• The Sea of Genkai1976

All TV Shows (41)

• 1972 Fireflies on the Shore2025 · as Taiei Tamashiro
• Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai2024 · as 仙川鶴一
• The Tiger and Her Wings2024 · as 穗高重亲
• Worry Not, She's the Boss2023 · as Yamagami Tatsuo
• THE DAYS2023 · as Furuya
• Fixer2023 · as Ichiro Suzaki
• Solomon's Perjury2021 · as 津崎 正男
• Reach Beyond the Blue Sky2021 · as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
• Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku2020 · as Kotaki Reiji
• Off the Record2020 · as Noto Toru
• Top League2019
• The Great White Tower2019 · as Mataichi Zaizen
• Miracles2018 · as Shun Samejima
• Hagetaka2018 · as Ryosuke Iijima
• Grade A Reversal2017
• Heaven2017 · as Doizaki Gen
• Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories2016 · as Master
• Hibana: Spark2016
• Godan2015
• Koinaka2015 · as Hirotoshi Serizawa
• The Emperor's Cook2015
• Hello Life from 552014
• Villiany Ganbo2014 · as Gen Koshimizu
• Woman2013 · as Uesugi Kentaro
• Trembling Cow2013
• Kyokuhoku Rhapsody2013
• Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue2012 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Carnation2011 · as Zensaku Ohara
• The Castle of Sand2011
• The Marriage Counselor2011 · as Syogo Yanagisawa
• News Sokuho wa Nagareta2009
• Midnight Diner2009 · as Master
• The Sun in Kurobe2009 · as Kunpei Takiyama
• Dr. Coto's Clinic2003 · as 星野正一
• The Private Detective Mike2002
• Ten urara1998 · as 松尾良治
• ナニワ金融道1996 · as 桑田 澄男
• Sunflower on the Hill1993 · as Yuzuhara Kohei
• Iki no Iiyatsu1987
• ふぞろいの林檎たち1983 · as 仲手川 耕一
• Toge no Gunzo1982