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
1997
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
2022
Carnation
2011
The Boy and the Heron
2023
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024
Midnight Diner
2009
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2006
THE DAYS
2023
Ten urara
1998
Tales from Earthsea
2006
The Private Detective Mike
2002

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
126
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Sham
2025
The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
as Taiei Tamashiro
2025
憶えのない殺人
as 佐治英雄
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
Promised Land
2024
The Tiger and Her Wings
as 穗高重亲
2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
as Tsuruichi Senkawa
2023
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Fixer
as Ichiro Suzaki
2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss
as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023
THE DAYS
as Furuya
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
2022
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
2022
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
2021
Arc
as Rihito
2021
Solomon's Perjury
as Masao Tsuzaki
2021
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2020
Independence of Japan
2020
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Kotaki Reiji
2020
Off the Record
as Noto Toru
2019
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
2019
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
2019
Top League
2019
The Great White Tower
as Mataichi Zaizen
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
as Mamoru Fujita
2018
Hagetaka
as Ryosuke Iijima
2018
Miracles
as Shun Samejima
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe
2017
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka
2017
Grade A Reversal
2017
Heaven
as Doizaki Gen
2016
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
2016
Midnight Diner 2
as Master
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka
2016
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as Master
2016
Hibana: Spark
2015
Koinaka
as Hirotoshi Serizawa
2015
Godan
2015
The Emperor's Cook
2014
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
2014
Midnight Diner
as Master
2014
Hello Life from 55
2014
Villiany Ganbo
as Gen Koshimizu
2013
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
2013
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Woman
as Uesugi Kentaro
2013
Trembling Cow
2011
The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
The Castle of Sand
2011
The Marriage Counselor
as Syogo Yanagisawa
2011
Carnation
as Zensaku Ohara
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
2010
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
2010
Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa
2010
Abraxas
2009
Kamui
as Hanbei
2009
Midnight Diner
as Master
2009
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
The Sun in Kurobe
as Kunpei Takiyama
2008
Vacation
as Toru Hirai
2008
Then Summer Came
2008
Double Trouble
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton
2006
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
2006
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as 星野正一
2005
Female
as Old man
2005
A Melody for My Father
2004
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
2003
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
2002
Ghiblies: Episode 2
as Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002
Ten Dark Women
2002
The Private Detective Mike
1999
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
1999
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
1999
The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami
1999
The Black House
1999
Le Secret
as 杉田平介
1998
Ten urara
as 松尾良治
1997
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1997
ふぞろいの林檎たち
as 仲手川 耕一
1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
ナニワ金融道
as 桑田 澄男
1994
Uneasy Encounters
1993
The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino
1993
Chibusa
1993
Sunflower on the Hill
as Yuzuhara Kohei
1991
Shimanto River
1990
Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
Untamagiru
as Giru
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1988
Love and Action in Osaka
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Saitô (voice)
1987
Iki no Iiyatsu
1986
For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985
Paradise View
as Reishu Goya
1985
Love Letter
as Tetsushi Kamiya
1984
The Funeral
as Inose
1984
The Wangan Highway
as Nakamura
1984
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1983
The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga
1982
The Dropout
as Miura
1982
Toge no Gunzo
1981
Call from Darkness
as Tatsuo Tamura
1981
Hear the Wind Sing
as Me
1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
as Eisuke Morimoto
1977
Ballad of Orin
as Torazo
1976
The Sea of Genkai