Kaoru Kobayashi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-09-04 (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.

Acting

1997

Princess Mononoke

as Jikobo (voice)

1984

The Funeral

as Inose

2006

Tales from Earthsea

as The King (voice)

2009

Kamui

as Hanbei

2023

Kubi

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

2008

Vacation

as Toru Hirai

2004

2010

Boys on the Run

as Suzuki san

1999

Secret

as Heisuke Sugita

2010

Haru's Journey

as Kinoshita

2023

The Boy and the Heron

as Noble Pelican (voice)

2022

Yes, I Can't Swim

as Professor Kamoshita

1985

And Then

as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

1999

Coquille

as Tatsuya Urayama

2013

The Great Passage

as Kohei Araki

2006

1977

2013

The End of Summer

as Shingo Kosugi

2013

Leaving on the 15th Spring

as Toshiharu Nakazato

1986

For Business

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

1988

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

2022

Winter Rose

as Giichi Wataguchi

1993

The Last U-Boat

as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

1989

Untamagiru

as Giru

1999

The Washing Machine

as Taiji Ogami

2023

Trapped Balloon

as Shigezo Kojima

2024

The Yin Yang Master Zero

as Fujiwara Yosuke

2022

Dr. Coto's Clinic

as Shoichi Hoshino

2011

The Egoists

as Kazuyuki Ninomiya

2014

Climbing to Spring

as Isao Nagamine

2005

Female

as Old man

2014

2010

1985

Paradise View

as Reishu Goya

2016

Botchan

as Madonna’s father

2017

1981

Call from Darkness

as Tatsuo Tamura

2016

2016

Natsumi's Firefly

as Sakakiyama

2017

2017

Mukoku

as Shozo Yatabe

1993

The Tomb & the Divorce

as Yoshinori Ishino

1979

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

as Eisuke Morimoto

1987

2019

His Lost Name

as Tetsuro

1984

2013

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

as Masashi Sera

1985

Love Letter

as Tetsushi Kamiya

1990

Hong Kong Paradise

as Hachirou Ooishi

1983

The Second Love

as Hideo Hyuga

2002

Ghiblies: Episode 2

as Toshi-chan (Voice)

2021

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

as Hirotaro Yamane

2021

Arc

as Rihito

2003

Like Asura

as Takao Satomi

2025

2025

The Last Blossom

as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

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