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Kaoru Kobayashi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

04/09/1951

Age

74 years old

Place of Birth

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

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

The Last Blossom

Sham

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

Promised Land

The Yin Yang Master Zero

Kubi

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

The Boy and the Heron

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

Trapped Balloon

Filmography

Cast

2025

The Last Blossom

as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

2025

Sham

2025

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2024

Promised Land

2024

The Yin Yang Master Zero

as Fujiwara Yosuke

2023

Kubi

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

2023

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

2023

The Boy and the Heron

as Noble Pelican (voice)

2023

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

2023

Trapped Balloon

as Shigezo Kojima

2022

Dr. Coto's Clinic

as Shoichi Hoshino

2022

Yes, I Can't Swim

as Professor Kamoshita

2022

Winter Rose

as Giichi Wataguchi

2021

Arc

as Rihito

2021

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

as Hirotaro Yamane

2020

Independence of Japan

2019

The Island of Cats

as Iwao

2019

His Lost Name

as Tetsuro

2018

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2017

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

as Takeo Matsuoka

2017

Lear on the Shore

2017

Mukoku

as Shozo Yatabe

2017

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

as Seiichi Morita

2017

An Emblem Dedicated To You

as Nakagawa Akiko

2016

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

as Jisaku Koka

2016

Midnight Diner 2

as Master

2016

Natsumi's Firefly

as Sakakiyama

2016

Botchan

as Madonna’s father

2014

Midnight Diner

as Master

2014

Climbing to Spring

as Isao Nagamine

2013

The End of Summer

as Shingo Kosugi

2013

Leaving on the 15th Spring

as Toshiharu Nakazato

2013

The Great Passage

as Kohei Araki

2013

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

as Masashi Sera

2011

The Egoists

as Kazuyuki Ninomiya

2010

Sketches of Kaitan City

as Ryuzo Higa

2010

Abraxas

2010

A Crowd of Three

2010

Haru's Journey

as Kinoshita

2010

Boys on the Run

as Suzuki san

2009

Kamui

as Hanbei

2008

Then Summer Came

2008

Vacation

as Toru Hirai

2008

Double Trouble

2007

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes ...

as Oton

2006

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

as Yasutada Kamiya

2006

Tales from Earthsea

as The King (voice)

2005

Female

as Old man

2004

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

as Mitsuru Watanabe

2003

Like Asura

as Takao Satomi

2002

Ten Dark Women

2002

Ghiblies: Episode 2

as Toshi-chan (Voice)

1999

The Black House

1999

Secret

as Heisuke Sugita

1999

The Washing Machine

as Taiji Ogami

1999

Coquille

as Tatsuya Urayama

1997

Princess Mononoke

as Jikobo (voice)

1996

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1994

Uneasy Encounters

1993

Chibusa

1993

The Tomb & the Divorce

as Yoshinori Ishino

1993

The Last U-Boat

as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

1991

Shimanto River

1990

Hong Kong Paradise

as Hachirou Ooishi

1989

Untamagiru

as Giru

1988

Love and Action in Osaka

1988

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

1987

Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Saitô (voice)

1986

For Business

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

1985

And Then

as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

1985

Love Letter

as Tetsushi Kamiya

1985

Paradise View

as Reishu Goya

1984

The Funeral

as Inose

1984

The Wangan Highway

as Nakamura

1983

The Second Love

as Hideo Hyuga

1982

The Dropout

1981

Hear the Wind Sing

as Me

1981

Call from Darkness

as Tatsuo Tamura

1979

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

as Eisuke Morimoto

1977

Ballad of Orin

as Torazo

1976