Kaoru Kobayashi

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Kaoru Kobayashi

Acting 75 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 Yokoha…

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Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke

8.3 1997 Movie
The Boy and the Heron

The Boy and the Heron

7.4 2023 Movie
Tales from Earthsea

Tales from Earthsea

6.5 2006 Movie
THE DAYS

THE DAYS

7.7 2023 TV Show
Midnight Diner

Midnight Diner

8.2 2009 TV Show
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

7.7 2021 Movie
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

9.3 2012 TV Show
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

7.9 2016 TV Show
Ten urara

Ten urara

1998 TV Show
Dr. Coto's Clinic

Dr. Coto's Clinic

8.7 2003 TV Show
Carnation

Carnation

8.1 2011 TV Show
The Tiger and Her Wings

The Tiger and Her Wings

8.3 2024 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    1972 Fireflies on the Shore

    TV show Taiei Tamashiro

  2. 2025
    The Last Blossom

    Movie Akutsu (1986) (voice)

  3. 2025
    憶えのない殺人

    TV show 佐治英雄

  4. 2025
    Sham

    Movie

  5. 2025
    Oboe no Nai Satsujin

    Movie

  6. 2024
    Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

    TV show Tsuruichi Senkawa

  7. 2024
    Promised Land

    Movie

  8. 2024
    The Yin Yang Master Zero

    Movie Fujiwara Yosuke

  9. 2024
    The Tiger and Her Wings

    TV show 穗高重亲

  10. 2023
    Kubi

    Movie Tokugawa Ieyasu

  11. 2023
    Worry Not, She's the Boss

    TV show Yamagami Tatsuo

  12. 2023
    Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

    Movie

  13. 2023
    The Boy and the Heron

    Movie Noble Pelican (voice)

  14. 2023
    THE DAYS

    TV show Furuya

  15. 2023
    Fixer

    TV show Ichiro Suzaki

  16. 2023
    Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

    Movie

More credits
  1. 2023
    Trapped Balloon

    Movie Shigezo Kojima

  2. 2022
    Dr. Coto's Clinic

    Movie Shoichi Hoshino

  3. 2022
    Yes, I Can't Swim

    Movie Professor Kamoshita

  4. 2022
    Winter Rose

    Movie Giichi Wataguchi

  5. 2021
    Solomon's Perjury

    TV show Masao Tsuzaki

  6. 2021
    Arc

    Movie Rihito

  7. 2021
    Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

    TV show Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

  8. 2021
    We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

    Movie Hirotaro Yamane

  9. 2020
    Independence of Japan

    Movie

  10. 2020
    Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

    TV show Kotaki Reiji

  11. 2020
    Off the Record

    TV show Noto Toru

  12. 2019
    Top League

    TV show

  13. 2019
    The Great White Tower

    TV show Mataichi Zaizen

  14. 2019
    The Island of Cats

    Movie Iwao

  15. 2019
    His Lost Name

    Movie Tetsuro

  16. 2018
    Miracles

    TV show Shun Samejima

  17. 2018
    The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

    Movie Mamoru Fujita

  18. 2018
    Hagetaka

    TV show Ryosuke Iijima

  19. 2017
    The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

    Movie Takeo Matsuoka

  20. 2017
    Mukoku

    Movie Shozo Yatabe

  21. 2017
    Lear on the Shore

    Movie

  22. 2017
    Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

    Movie Seiichi Morita

  23. 2017
    Grade A Reversal

    TV show

  24. 2017
    Heaven

    TV show Doizaki Gen