Acting

Kaoru Kobayashi

Born 1951-09-04 · 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.

Credits

Newest first

1972 Fireflies on the Shore
as Taiei Tamashiro
2025
The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
憶えのない殺人
as 佐治英雄
2025
Sham
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
as Tsuruichi Senkawa
2024
Promised Land
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
The Tiger and Her Wings
as Hodaka Shigechika
2024
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss
as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
THE DAYS
as Furuya
2023
Fixer
as Ichiro Suzaki
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
Solomon's Perjury
as Masao Tsuzaki
2021
Arc
as Rihito
2021
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
2021
Independence of Japan
2020
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
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
2019
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
2019
Miracles
as Shun Samejima
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
as Mamoru Fujita
2018
Hagetaka
as Ryosuke Iijima
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
Grade A Reversal
2017
Heaven
as Doizaki Gen
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
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as Master
2016
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
2016
Hibana: Spark
2016
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
2016
Godan
2015
Koinaka
as Hirotoshi Serizawa
2015
The Emperor's Cook
2015
Midnight Diner
as Master
2014
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
2014
Hello Life from 55
2014
Villiany Ganbo
as Gen Koshimizu
2014
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
2013
Woman
as Uesugi Kentaro
2013
Trembling Cow
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
Carnation
as Zensaku Ohara
2011
The Castle of Sand
2011
The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
The Marriage Counselor
as Syogo Yanagisawa
2011
The Marriage Counselor
Creator
2011
Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa
2010
Abraxas
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
2010
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
2010
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
Midnight Diner
as Master
2009
Kamui
as Hanbei
2009
The Sun in Kurobe
as Kunpei Takiyama
2009
Then Summer Came
2008
Vacation
as Toru Hirai
2008
Double Trouble
2008
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton
2007