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.
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Movies (29)
The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
Sham
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Promised Land
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
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
2023
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
2022
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
2022
Arc
as Rihito
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
2021
Independence of Japan
2020
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
2019
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
2019
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
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
2017
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
2016
Midnight Diner
as Master
2014
TV Shows (21)
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
as Taiei Tamashiro
2025
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
as 仙川鶴一
2024
The Tiger and Her Wings
as 穗高重亲
2024
Worry Not, She's the Boss
as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023
THE DAYS
as Furuya
2023
Fixer
as Ichiro Suzaki
2023
Solomon's Perjury
as 津崎 正男
2021
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2021
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Kotaki Reiji
2020
Off the Record
as Noto Toru
2020
Top League
2019
The Great White Tower
as Mataichi Zaizen
2019
Miracles
as Shun Samejima
2018
Hagetaka
as Ryosuke Iijima
2018
Grade A Reversal
2017
Heaven
as Doizaki Gen
2017
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as Master
2016
Hibana: Spark
2016
Godan
2015
Koinaka
as Hirotoshi Serizawa
2015
The Emperor's Cook
2015