birthday: 1951-09-04

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.

Princess Mononoke

1997 . movie

A Crowd of Three

2010 . movie

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007 . movie

The Funeral

1984 . movie

Tales from Earthsea

2006 . movie

Kamui

2009 . movie

Kubi

2023 . movie

Vacation

2008 . movie

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004 . movie

Boys on the Run

2010 . movie

Secret

1999 . movie

Haru's Journey

2010 . movie

The Boy and the Heron

2023 . movie

Yes, I Can't Swim

2022 . movie

And Then

1985 . movie

Coquille

1999 . movie

The Great Passage

2013 . movie

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

2006 . movie

Ballad of Orin

1977 . movie

The End of Summer

2013 . movie

Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013 . movie

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

2023 . movie

For Business

1986 . movie

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1988 . movie

Winter Rose

2022 . movie

The Last U-Boat

1993 . movie

Untamagiru

1989 . movie

The Washing Machine

1999 . movie

Trapped Balloon

2023 . movie

The Yin Yang Master Zero

2024 . movie

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2022 . movie

The Egoists

2011 . movie

Climbing to Spring

2014 . movie

Female

2005 . movie

Midnight Diner

2014 . movie

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1996 . movie

Sketches of Kaitan City

2010 . movie

Paradise View

1985 . movie

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

2023 . movie

Promised Land

2024 . movie

Botchan

2016 . movie

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

2017 . movie

Call from Darkness

1981 . movie

Hear the Wind Sing

1981 . movie

Midnight Diner 2

2016 . movie

The Black House

1999 . movie

Love and Action in Osaka

1988 . movie

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

2016 . movie

Natsumi's Firefly

2016 . movie

An Emblem Dedicated To You

2017 . movie

Abraxas

2010 . movie

Lear on the Shore

2017 . movie

Mukoku

2017 . movie

The Dropout

1982 . movie

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

2017 . movie

The Tomb & the Divorce

1993 . movie

Chibusa

1993 . movie

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

1979 . movie

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987 . movie

His Lost Name

2019 . movie

The Wangan Highway

1984 . movie

The Island of Cats

2019 . movie

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013 . movie

Love Letter

1985 . movie

Hong Kong Paradise

1990 . movie

The Second Love

1983 . movie

Then Summer Came

2008 . movie

Uneasy Encounters

1994 . movie

The Sea of Genkai

1976 . movie

Shimanto River

1991 . movie

Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002 . movie

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021 . movie

Arc

2021 . movie

Double Trouble

2008 . movie

Like Asura

2003 . movie

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018 . movie

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2025 . movie

Sham

2025 . movie

Toge no Gunzo

1982 . tv

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

2020 . tv

Top League

2019 . tv

The Castle of Sand

2011 . tv

Hello life from 55

2014 . tv

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013 . tv

Fixer

2023 . tv

Midnight Diner

2009 . tv

The Private Detective Mike

2002 . tv

Solomon's Perjury

2021 . tv

Villiany Ganbo

2014 . tv

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

2009 . tv

The Marriage Counselor

2011 . tv

The Sun in Kurobe

2009 . tv

Carnation

2011 . tv

Grade A Reversal

2017 . tv

Heaven

2017 . tv

Worry Not, She's the Boss

2023 . tv

Hagetaka

2018 . tv

ふぞろいの林檎たち

1983 . tv

Iki no Iiyatsu

1987 . tv

The Tiger and Her Wings

2024 . tv

Miracles

2018 . tv

Ten urara

1998 . tv

Best Friends in Love

2015 . tv

Woman

2013 . tv

ナニワ金融道

1996 . tv

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2003 . tv

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016 . tv

Off the Record

2020 . tv

THE DAYS

2023 . tv

Hibana: Spark

2016 . tv

Godan

2015 . tv

Furueru Ushi

2013 . tv

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

2024 . tv

Sunflower on the Hill

1993 . tv

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

2021 . tv

The Great White Tower

2019 . tv

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

2012 . tv

The Emperor's Cook

2015 . tv