Kaoru Kobayashi
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.
Acted in
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
as 仙川鶴一
Promised Land
2024
The Yin-Yang Master Zero
2024
as Fujiwara Yosuke
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024
as Hodaka Shigechika
Kubi
2023
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss
2023
as Yamagami Tatsuo
The Boy and the Heron
2023
as Noble Pelican (voice)
THE DAYS
2023
as Furuya
Fixer
2023
as Ichiro Suzaki
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon
2023
as Shigezo Kojima
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
as Shoichi Hoshino
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
as Professor Kamoshita
Winter Rose
2022
as Giichi Wataguchi
Solomon's Perjury
2021
as 津崎 正男
Arc
2021
as Rihito
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
2021
as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
as Hirotaro Yamane
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
as Kotaki Reiji
Off the Record
2020
as Noto Toru
Top League
2019
The Great White Tower
2019
as Mataichi Zaizen
The Island of Cats
2019
as Iwao
His Lost Name
2019
as Tetsuro
Miracles
2018
as Shun Samejima
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Hagetaka
2018
as Ryosuke Iijima
Hagetaka
2018
as Ryosuke Iijima
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
as Takeo Matsuoka
Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku
2017
as Shozo Yatabe
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
as Seiichi Morita
Grade A Reversal
2017
Heaven
2017
as Doizaki Gen
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
as Nakagawa Akiko
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
as Jisaku Koka
Midnight Diner 2
2016
as Master
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
as Master
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
as Sakakiyama
Hibana: Spark
2016
Botchan
2016
as Madonna’s father
Godan
2015
Best Friends in Love
2015
as Serizawa Hirotoshi
Midnight Diner
2014
as Master
Climbing to Spring
2014
as Isao Nagamine
Hello life from 55
2014
Villiany Ganbo
2014
as Gen Koshimizu
The End of Summer
2013
as Shingo Kosugi
Woman
2013
as Uesugi Kentaro
Furueru Ushi
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
as Toshiharu Nakazato
The Great Passage
2013
as Kohei Araki
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
as Masashi Sera
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
2012
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Carnation
2011
as Zensaku Ohara
The Castle of Sand
2011
The Egoists
2011
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
The Marriage Counselor
2011
as Syogo Yanagisawa
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
as Ryuzo Higa
Abraxas
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Haru's Journey
2010
as Kinoshita
Boys on the Run
2010
as Suzuki san
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
Midnight Diner
2009
as Master
Kamui
2009
as Hanbei
The Sun in Kurobe
2009
as Kunpei Takiyama
Then Summer Came
2008
Vacation
2008
as Toru Hirai
Double Trouble
2008
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
as Oton
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
as Yasutada Kamiya
Tales from Earthsea
2006
as The King (voice)
Female
2005
as Old man
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
as Mitsuru Watanabe
Like Asura
2003
as Takao Satomi
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2003
as 星野正一
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
as Toshi-chan (Voice)
The Private Detective Mike
2002
The Black House
1999
Secret
1999
as Heisuke Sugita
The Washing Machine
1999
as Taiji Ogami
Coquille
1999
as Tatsuya Urayama
Ten urara
1998
as 松尾良治
Princess Mononoke
1997
as Jikobo (voice)
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
ナニワ金融道
1996
as 桑田 澄男
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Chibusa
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
as Yoshinori Ishino
Sunflower on the Hill
1993
as Yuzuhara Kohei
The Last U-Boat
1993
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
Shimanto River
1991
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
as Hachirou Ooishi
Untama giru
1989
as Giru
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
as Saitô
Iki no Iiyatsu
1987
For Business
1986
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
And Then
1985
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Love Letter
1985
as Tetsushi Kamiya
Paradise View
1985
as Reishu Goya
The Funeral
1984
as Inose
The Wangan Highway
1984
as Nakamura
ふぞろいの林檎たち
1983
as 仲手川 耕一
The Second Love
1983
as Hideo Hyuga
The Dropout
1982
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
as Me
Call from Darkness
1981
as Tatsuo Tamura
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
as Eisuke Morimoto
Ballad of Orin
1977
as Torazo
The Sea of Genkai
1976