Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting
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.
Filmography 125
Movies (84)
The Last Blossom2025Akutsu (1986) (voice)
Sham2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin2025
Promised Land2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero2024Fujiwara Yosuke
Kubi2023Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl2023
The Boy and the Heron2023Noble Pelican (voice)
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 22023
Trapped Balloon2023Shigezo Kojima
Dr. Coto's Clinic2022Shoichi Hoshino
Yes, I Can't Swim2022Professor Kamoshita
Winter Rose2022Giichi Wataguchi
Arc2021Rihito
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet2021Hirotaro Yamane
Independence of Japan2020
The Island of Cats2019Iwao
His Lost Name2019Tetsuro
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan2018
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store2017Takeo Matsuoka
Mukoku2017Shozo Yatabe
Lear on the Shore2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day2017Seiichi Morita
An Emblem Dedicated To You2017Nakagawa Akiko
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"2016Jisaku Koka
Midnight Diner 22016Master
Natsumi's Firefly2016Sakakiyama
Botchan2016Madonna’s father
Midnight Diner2014Master
Climbing to Spring2014Isao Nagamine
Shows (41)
1972 Fireflies on the Shore2025Taiei Tamashiro
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai2024仙川鶴一
The Tiger and Her Wings2024穗高重亲
Worry Not, She's the Boss2023Yamagami Tatsuo
THE DAYS2023Furuya
Fixer2023Ichiro Suzaki
Solomon's Perjury2021津崎 正男
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky2021Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku2020Kotaki Reiji
Off the Record2020Noto Toru
Top League2019
The Great White Tower2019Mataichi Zaizen
Miracles2018Shun Samejima
Hagetaka2018Ryosuke Iijima
Grade A Reversal2017
Heaven2017Doizaki Gen
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories2016Master
Hibana: Spark2016
Godan2015
Koinaka2015Hirotoshi Serizawa
The Emperor's Cook2015
Hello Life from 552014
Villiany Ganbo2014Gen Koshimizu
Woman2013Uesugi Kentaro
Trembling Cow2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody2013
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue2012Self - Narrator (voice)
Carnation2011Zensaku Ohara
The Castle of Sand2011
The Marriage Counselor2011Syogo Yanagisawa