Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting
Born September 4, 1951 · Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Films (83)
The Last Blossom
2025
Sham
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Promised Land
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
Kubi
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
The Boy and the Heron
2023
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon
2023
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
Winter Rose
2022
Arc
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Independence of Japan
2020
The Island of Cats
2019
His Lost Name
2019
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
Midnight Diner 2
2016
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
Botchan
2016
Midnight Diner
2014
Climbing to Spring
2014
The End of Summer
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
The Great Passage
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
The Egoists
2011
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
Abraxas
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Haru's Journey
2010
Boys on the Run
2010
Kamui
2009
Then Summer Came
2008
Vacation
2008
Double Trouble
2008
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
Tales from Earthsea
2006
A Melody for My Father
2005
Female
2005
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
Like Asura
2003
Ten Dark Women
2002
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
The Black House
1999
Secret
1999
The Washing Machine
1999
Coquille
1999
Princess Mononoke
1997
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Chibusa
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
The Last U-Boat
1993
Shimanto River
1991
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
Untamagiru
1989
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
For Business
1986
And Then
1985
Love Letter
1985
Paradise View
1985
The Funeral
1984
The Wangan Highway
1984
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
The Second Love
1983
The Dropout
1982
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
Call from Darkness
1981
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
Ballad of Orin
1977
The Sea of Genkai
1976