Person

Kaoru Kobayashi

Acting · Born 1951-09-04 · Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

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.

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  Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

  Self - Narrator (voice)

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  Princess Mononoke

  Jikobo (voice)

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  The Tiger and Her Wings

  穗高重亲

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  The Boy and the Heron

  Noble Pelican (voice)

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  Carnation

  Zensaku Ohara

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  Dr. Coto's Clinic

  星野正一

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  Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

  Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

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  Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

  Master

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  Midnight Diner

  Master

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  Tales from Earthsea

  The King (voice)

• 20251972 Fireflies on the ShoreTaiei Tamashiro
• 2025The Last BlossomAkutsu (1986) (voice)
• 2025Sham
• 2025Oboe no Nai Satsujin
• 2024Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai仙川鶴一
• 2024Promised Land
• 2024The Yin Yang Master ZeroFujiwara Yosuke
• 2024The Tiger and Her Wings穗高重亲
• 2023KubiTokugawa Ieyasu
• 2023Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
• 2023Worry Not, She's the BossYamagami Tatsuo
• 2023The Boy and the HeronNoble Pelican (voice)
• 2023THE DAYSFuruya
• 2023FixerIchiro Suzaki
• 2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
• 2023Trapped BalloonShigezo Kojima
• 2022Dr. Coto's ClinicShoichi Hoshino
• 2022Yes, I Can't SwimProfessor Kamoshita
• 2022Winter RoseGiichi Wataguchi
• 2021Solomon's Perjury津崎 正男
• 2021ArcRihito
• 2021Reach Beyond the Blue SkyShibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
• 2021We Made a Beautiful BouquetHirotaro Yamane
• 2020Independence of Japan
• 2020Kotaki Brothers and ShikuhakkuKotaki Reiji
• 2020Off the RecordNoto Toru
• 2019Top League
• 2019The Great White TowerMataichi Zaizen
• 2019The Island of CatsIwao
• 2019His Lost NameTetsuro
• 2018MiraclesShun Samejima
• 2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
• 2018HagetakaRyosuke Iijima
• 2017The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreTakeo Matsuoka
• 2017Lear on the Shore
• 2017MukokuShozo Yatabe
• 2017Kiseki: Sobito of That DaySeiichi Morita
• 2017Grade A Reversal
• 2017HeavenDoizaki Gen
• 2017An Emblem Dedicated To YouNakagawa Akiko
• 2016Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"Jisaku Koka
• 2016Midnight Diner 2Master
• 2016Midnight Diner: Tokyo StoriesMaster
• 2016Natsumi's FireflySakakiyama
• 2016Hibana: Spark
• 2016BotchanMadonna’s father
• 2015Godan
• 2015KoinakaHirotoshi Serizawa
• 2015The Emperor's Cook
• 2014Midnight DinerMaster
• 2014Climbing to SpringIsao Nagamine
• 2014Hello Life from 55
• 2014Villiany GanboGen Koshimizu
• 2013The End of SummerShingo Kosugi
• 2013WomanUesugi Kentaro
• 2013Trembling Cow
• 2013Leaving on the 15th SpringToshiharu Nakazato
• 2013The Great PassageKohei Araki
• 2013Kyokuhoku RhapsodyMasashi Sera
• 2013Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
• 2012Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” TravelogueSelf - Narrator (voice)
• 2011CarnationZensaku Ohara
• 2011The Castle of Sand
• 2011The EgoistsKazuyuki Ninomiya
• 2011The Marriage CounselorSyogo Yanagisawa
• 2010Sketches of Kaitan CityRyuzo Higa
• 2010Abraxas
• 2010A Crowd of Three
• 2010Haru's JourneyKinoshita
• 2010Boys on the RunSuzuki san
• 2009News Sokuho wa Nagareta
• 2009Midnight DinerMaster
• 2009KamuiHanbei
• 2009The Sun in KurobeKunpei Takiyama
• 2008Then Summer Came
• 2008VacationToru Hirai
• 2008Double Trouble
• 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes DadOton
• 2006The Blossoming of Etsuko KamiyaYasutada Kamiya
• 2006Tales from EarthseaThe King (voice)
• 2005A Melody for My Father
• 2005FemaleOld man
• 2004Quill: The Life of a Guide DogMitsuru Watanabe
• 2003Like AsuraTakao Satomi
• 2003Dr. Coto's Clinic星野正一
• 2002Ten Dark Women
• 2002Ghiblies: Episode 2Toshi-chan (Voice)
• 2002The Private Detective Mike
• 1999Le Secret杉田平介
• 1999The Black House
• 1999SecretHeisuke Sugita
• 1999The Washing MachineTaiji Ogami
• 1999CoquilleTatsuya Urayama
• 1998Ten urara松尾良治
• 1997Princess MononokeJikobo (voice)
• 1996The Way of Osaka Financing 1
• 1996ナニワ金融道桑田 澄男
• 1994Uneasy Encounters
• 1993Chibusa
• 1993The Tomb & the DivorceYoshinori Ishino
• 1993Sunflower on the HillYuzuhara Kohei
• 1993The Last U-BoatTatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
• 1991Shimanto River
• 1990Hong Kong ParadiseHachirou Ooishi
• 1989UntamagiruGiru
• 1988Love and Action in Osaka
• 1988Bakayaro! I'm Plenty MadShigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
• 1987Twilight of the CockroachesSaitô (voice)
• 1987Iki no Iiyatsu
• 1986For BusinessMiyabi Sakuramiya
• 1985And ThenTsunejiro Hiraoka
• 1985Love LetterTetsushi Kamiya
• 1985Paradise ViewReishu Goya
• 1984The FuneralInose
• 1984The Wangan HighwayNakamura
• 1984Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
• 1983ふぞろいの林檎たち仲手川 耕一
• 1983The Second LoveHideo Hyuga
• 1982The DropoutMiura
• 1982Toge no Gunzo
• 1981Hear the Wind SingMe
• 1981Call from DarknessTatsuo Tamura
• 1979Eighteen Years, to the SeaEisuke Morimoto
• 1977Ballad of OrinTorazo
• 1976The Sea of Genkai