People
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.
Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Last Blossom as Akutsu (1986) (voice) | 2025-10-10 |
| Sham | 2025-06-27 |
| Oboe no Nai Satsujin | 2025-02-22 |
| Promised Land | 2024-06-14 |
| The Yin Yang Master Zero as Fujiwara Yosuke | 2024-04-19 |
| Kubi as Tokugawa Ieyasu | 2023-11-23 |
| Tsugaru Lacquer Girl | 2023-10-18 |
| The Boy and the Heron as Noble Pelican (voice) | 2023-07-14 |
| Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 | 2023-04-07 |
| Trapped Balloon as Shigezo Kojima | 2023-01-06 |
| Dr. Coto's Clinic as Shoichi Hoshino | 2022-12-16 |
| Yes, I Can't Swim as Professor Kamoshita | 2022-06-10 |
| Winter Rose as Giichi Wataguchi | 2022-06-03 |
| Arc as Rihito | 2021-06-25 |
| We Made a Beautiful Bouquet as Hirotaro Yamane | 2021-01-29 |
| Independence of Japan | 2020-12-18 |
| The Island of Cats as Iwao | 2019-02-22 |
| His Lost Name as Tetsuro | 2019-01-18 |
| The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan | 2018-09-07 |
| The Miracles of the Namiya General Store as Takeo Matsuoka | 2017-09-23 |
| Mukoku as Shozo Yatabe | 2017-06-03 |
| Lear on the Shore | 2017-06-03 |
| Kiseki: Sobito of That Day as Seiichi Morita | 2017-01-28 |
| An Emblem Dedicated To You as Nakagawa Akiko | 2017-01-03 |
| Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" as Jisaku Koka | 2016-12-11 |
| Midnight Diner 2 as Master | 2016-11-05 |
| Natsumi's Firefly as Sakakiyama | 2016-06-11 |
| Botchan as Madonna’s father | 2016-01-03 |
| Midnight Diner as Master | 2014-11-01 |
| Climbing to Spring as Isao Nagamine | 2014-06-14 |
| The End of Summer as Shingo Kosugi | 2013-08-31 |
| Leaving on the 15th Spring as Toshiharu Nakazato | 2013-04-25 |
| The Great Passage as Kohei Araki | 2013-04-13 |
| Kyokuhoku Rhapsody as Masashi Sera | 2013-03-19 |
| The Egoists as Kazuyuki Ninomiya | 2011-06-04 |
| Sketches of Kaitan City as Ryuzo Higa | 2010-12-18 |
| Abraxas | 2010-10-09 |
| A Crowd of Three | 2010-06-12 |
| Haru's Journey as Kinoshita | 2010-05-22 |
| Boys on the Run as Suzuki san | 2010-01-30 |
| Kamui as Hanbei | 2009-09-19 |
| Then Summer Came | 2008-07-19 |
| Vacation as Toru Hirai | 2008-06-07 |
| Double Trouble | 2008-02-02 |
| Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Oton | 2007-04-14 |
| The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya as Yasutada Kamiya | 2006-08-11 |
| Tales from Earthsea as The King (voice) | 2006-07-29 |
| A Melody for My Father | 2005-11-30 |
| Female as Old man | 2005-05-14 |
| Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog as Mitsuru Watanabe | 2004-03-13 |
| Like Asura as Takao Satomi | 2003-11-08 |
| Ten Dark Women | 2002-09-21 |
| Ghiblies: Episode 2 as Toshi-chan (Voice) | 2002-07-19 |
| The Black House | 1999-11-13 |
| Secret as Heisuke Sugita | 1999-09-15 |
| The Washing Machine as Taiji Ogami | 1999-04-24 |
| Coquille as Tatsuya Urayama | 1999-03-27 |
| Princess Mononoke as Jikobo (voice) | 1997-07-12 |
| The Way of Osaka Financing 1 | 1996-02-16 |
| Uneasy Encounters | 1994-04-23 |
| Chibusa | 1993-10-09 |
| The Tomb & the Divorce as Yoshinori Ishino | 1993-07-31 |
| The Last U-Boat as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän | 1993-01-02 |
| Shimanto River | 1991-12-07 |
| Hong Kong Paradise as Hachirou Ooishi | 1990-04-28 |
| Untamagiru as Giru | 1989-10-07 |
| Love and Action in Osaka | 1988-12-10 |
| Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4) | 1988-09-15 |
| Twilight of the Cockroaches as Saitô (voice) | 1987-11-21 |
| For Business as Miyabi Sakuramiya | 1986-08-22 |
| And Then as Tsunejiro Hiraoka | 1985-11-09 |
| Love Letter as Tetsushi Kamiya | 1985-10-05 |
| Paradise View as Reishu Goya | 1985-04-13 |
| The Funeral as Inose | 1984-11-17 |
| The Wangan Highway as Nakamura | 1984-09-29 |
| Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna! | 1984-01-07 |
| The Second Love as Hideo Hyuga | 1983-04-08 |
| The Dropout as Miura | 1982-10-02 |
| Hear the Wind Sing as Me | 1981-12-19 |
| Call from Darkness as Tatsuo Tamura | 1981-09-26 |
| Eighteen Years, to the Sea as Eisuke Morimoto | 1979-08-18 |
| Ballad of Orin as Torazo | 1977-11-19 |
| The Sea of Genkai | 1976-05-29 |



