Kaoru Kobayashi

Kaoru Kobayashi

Birthday: 1951-09-04
Place of birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Also know as: 小林薫

Bio

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.

Movies with Kaoru Kobayashi

Princess Mononoke

1997
As Jikobo (voice)
A Crowd of Three

2010
As
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007
As Oton
The Funeral

1984
As Inose
Tales from Earthsea

2006
As The King (voice)
Kamui

2009
As Hanbei
Kubi

2023
As Tokugawa Ieyasu
Vacation

2008
As Toru Hirai
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004
As Mitsuru Watanabe
Boys on the Run

2010
As Suzuki san
Secret

1999
As Heisuke Sugita
Haru's Journey

2010
As Kinoshita
The Boy and the Heron

2023
As Noble Pelican (voice)
Yes, I Can't Swim

2022
As Professor Kamoshita
And Then

1985
As Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Coquille

1999
As Tatsuya Urayama
The Great Passage

2013
As Kohei Araki
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

2006
As Yasutada Kamiya
Ballad of Orin

1977
As Torazo
The End of Summer

2013
As Shingo Kosugi
Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013
As Toshiharu Nakazato
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

2023
As
For Business

1986
As Miyabi Sakuramiya
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1988
As Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
Winter Rose

2022
As Giichi Wataguchi
The Last U-Boat

1993
As Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
Untamagiru

1989
As Giru
The Washing Machine

1999
As Taiji Ogami
Trapped Balloon

2023
As Shigezo Kojima
The Yin Yang Master Zero

2024
As Fujiwara Yosuke
Dr. Coto's Clinic

2022
As Shoichi Hoshino
The Egoists

2011
As Kazuyuki Ninomiya
Climbing to Spring

2014
As Isao Nagamine
Female

2005
As Old man
Midnight Diner

2014
As Master
The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1996
As
Sketches of Kaitan City

2010
As Ryuzo Higa
Paradise View

1985
As Reishu Goya
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

2023
As
Promised Land

2024
As
Botchan

2016
As Madonna’s father
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

2017
As Seiichi Morita
Call from Darkness

1981
As Tatsuo Tamura
Hear the Wind Sing

1981
As Me
Midnight Diner 2

2016
As Master
The Black House

1999
As
Love and Action in Osaka

1988
As
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

2016
As Jisaku Koka
Natsumi's Firefly

2016
As Sakakiyama
An Emblem Dedicated To You

2017
As Nakagawa Akiko
Abraxas

2010
As
Lear on the Shore

2017
As
Mukoku

2017
As Shozo Yatabe
The Dropout

1982
As
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

2017
As Takeo Matsuoka
The Tomb & the Divorce

1993
As Yoshinori Ishino
Chibusa

1993
As
Eighteen Years, to the Sea

1979
As Eisuke Morimoto
Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987
As Saitô (voice)
His Lost Name

2019
As Tetsuro
The Wangan Highway

1984
As Nakamura
The Island of Cats

2019
As Iwao
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013
As Masashi Sera
Love Letter

1985
As Tetsushi Kamiya
Hong Kong Paradise

1990
As Hachirou Ooishi
The Second Love

1983
As Hideo Hyuga
Then Summer Came

2008
As
Uneasy Encounters

1994
As
The Sea of Genkai

1976
As
Shimanto River

1991
As
Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002
As Toshi-chan (Voice)
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021
As Hirotaro Yamane
Arc

2021
As Rihito
Double Trouble

2008
As
Like Asura

2003
As Takao Satomi
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018
As
Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2025
As
Sham

2025
As
Independence of Japan

2020
As
The Last Blossom

2025
As Akutsu (1986) (voice)
Ten Dark Women

2002
As
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

1984
As
Castle of Sand

2011
As Imanishi Eitaro
A Melody for My Father

2005
As

TV Shows with Kaoru Kobayashi

Toge no Gunzo

1982
As
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

2020
As Kotaki Reiji
Top League

2019
As
The Castle of Sand

2011
As
Hello life from 55

2014
As
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013
As
Fixer

2023
As Ichiro Suzaki
Midnight Diner

2009
As Master
The Private Detective Mike

2002
As
Solomon's Perjury

2021
As 津崎正男
Villiany Ganbo

2014
As Gen Koshimizu
News Sokuho wa Nagareta

2009
As
The Marriage Counselor

2011
As Syogo Yanagisawa
The Sun in Kurobe

2009
As Kunpei Takiyama
Carnation

2011
As Zensaku Ohara
Grade A Reversal

2017
As
Heaven

2017
As Doizaki Gen
Worry Not, She's the Boss

2023
As Yamagami Tatsuo
Hagetaka

2018
As Ryosuke Iijima
ふぞろいの林檎たち

1983
As 仲手川耕一
Iki no Iiyatsu

1987
As
The Tiger and Her Wings

2024
As 穗高重亲
Miracles

2018
As Shun Samejima
Ten urara

1998
As 松尾良治
Koinaka

2015
As Hirotoshi Serizawa
Woman

2013
As Uesugi Kentaro
ナニワ金融道

1996
As 桑田澄男
Dr. Coto's Clinic

2003
As 星野正一
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016
As Master
Off the Record

2020
As Noto Toru
THE DAYS

2023
As Furuya
Hibana: Spark

2016
As
Godan

2015
As
Trembling Cow

2013
As
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

2024
As 仙川鶴一
Sunflower on the Hill

1993
As Yuzuhara Kohei
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

2021
As Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
The Great White Tower

2019
As Mataichi Zaizen
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

2012
As Self - Narrator (voice)
The Emperor's Cook

2015
As
1972 Fireflies on the Shore

2025
As Taiei Tamashiro