Person
Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting · Born 1951-09-04 · Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Known for
Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
Self - Narrator (voice)
Carnation
Zensaku Ohara
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
Dr. Coto's Clinic
星野正一
The Tiger and Her Wings
穗高重亲
Midnight Diner
Master
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Master
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
Filmography
- 20251972 Fireflies on the ShoreTaiei Tamashiro
- 2025The Last BlossomAkutsu (1986) (voice)
- 2025Sham
- 2025Oboe no Nai Satsujin
- 2024Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai仙川鶴一
- 2024Promised Land
- 2024The Yin Yang Master ZeroFujiwara Yosuke
- 2024The Tiger and Her Wings穗高重亲
- 2023KubiTokugawa Ieyasu
- 2023Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
- 2023Worry Not, She's the BossYamagami Tatsuo
- 2023The Boy and the HeronNoble Pelican (voice)
- 2023THE DAYSFuruya
- 2023FixerIchiro Suzaki
- 2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
- 2023Trapped BalloonShigezo Kojima
- 2022Dr. Coto's ClinicShoichi Hoshino
- 2022Yes, I Can't SwimProfessor Kamoshita
- 2022Winter RoseGiichi Wataguchi
- 2021Solomon's Perjury津崎 正男
- 2021ArcRihito
- 2021Reach Beyond the Blue SkyShibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
- 2021We Made a Beautiful BouquetHirotaro Yamane
- 2020Independence of Japan
- 2020Kotaki Brothers and ShikuhakkuKotaki Reiji
- 2020Off the RecordNoto Toru
- 2019Top League
- 2019The Great White TowerMataichi Zaizen
- 2019The Island of CatsIwao
- 2019His Lost NameTetsuro
- 2018MiraclesShun Samejima
- 2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
- 2018HagetakaRyosuke Iijima
- 2017The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreTakeo Matsuoka
- 2017Lear on the Shore
- 2017MukokuShozo Yatabe
- 2017Kiseki: Sobito of That DaySeiichi Morita
- 2017Grade A Reversal
- 2017HeavenDoizaki Gen
- 2017An Emblem Dedicated To YouNakagawa Akiko
- 2016Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"Jisaku Koka
- 2016Midnight Diner 2Master
- 2016Midnight Diner: Tokyo StoriesMaster
- 2016Natsumi's FireflySakakiyama
- 2016Hibana: Spark
- 2016BotchanMadonna’s father
- 2015Godan
- 2015KoinakaHirotoshi Serizawa
- 2015The Emperor's Cook
- 2014Midnight DinerMaster
- 2014Climbing to SpringIsao Nagamine
- 2014Hello Life from 55
- 2014Villiany GanboGen Koshimizu
- 2013The End of SummerShingo Kosugi
- 2013WomanUesugi Kentaro
- 2013Trembling Cow
- 2013Leaving on the 15th SpringToshiharu Nakazato
- 2013The Great PassageKohei Araki
- 2013Kyokuhoku RhapsodyMasashi Sera
- 2013Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
- 2012Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” TravelogueSelf - Narrator (voice)
- 2011CarnationZensaku Ohara
- 2011The Castle of Sand
- 2011The EgoistsKazuyuki Ninomiya
- 2011The Marriage CounselorSyogo Yanagisawa
- 2010Sketches of Kaitan CityRyuzo Higa
- 2010Abraxas
- 2010A Crowd of Three
- 2010Haru's JourneyKinoshita
- 2010Boys on the RunSuzuki san
- 2009News Sokuho wa Nagareta
- 2009Midnight DinerMaster
- 2009KamuiHanbei
- 2009The Sun in KurobeKunpei Takiyama
- 2008Then Summer Came
- 2008VacationToru Hirai
- 2008Double Trouble
- 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes DadOton
- 2006The Blossoming of Etsuko KamiyaYasutada Kamiya
- 2006Tales from EarthseaThe King (voice)
- 2005A Melody for My Father
- 2005FemaleOld man
- 2004Quill: The Life of a Guide DogMitsuru Watanabe
- 2003Like AsuraTakao Satomi
- 2003Dr. Coto's Clinic星野正一
- 2002Ten Dark Women
- 2002Ghiblies: Episode 2Toshi-chan (Voice)
- 2002The Private Detective Mike
- 1999Le Secret杉田平介
- 1999The Black House
- 1999SecretHeisuke Sugita
- 1999The Washing MachineTaiji Ogami
- 1999CoquilleTatsuya Urayama
- 1998Ten urara松尾良治
- 1997Princess MononokeJikobo (voice)
- 1996The Way of Osaka Financing 1
- 1996ナニワ金融道桑田 澄男
- 1994Uneasy Encounters
- 1993Chibusa
- 1993The Tomb & the DivorceYoshinori Ishino
- 1993Sunflower on the HillYuzuhara Kohei
- 1993The Last U-BoatTatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
- 1991Shimanto River
- 1990Hong Kong ParadiseHachirou Ooishi
- 1989UntamagiruGiru
- 1988Love and Action in Osaka
- 1988Bakayaro! I'm Plenty MadShigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
- 1987Twilight of the CockroachesSaitô (voice)
- 1987Iki no Iiyatsu
- 1986For BusinessMiyabi Sakuramiya
- 1985And ThenTsunejiro Hiraoka
- 1985Love LetterTetsushi Kamiya
- 1985Paradise ViewReishu Goya
- 1984The FuneralInose
- 1984The Wangan HighwayNakamura
- 1984Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
- 1983ふぞろいの林檎たち仲手川 耕一
- 1983The Second LoveHideo Hyuga
- 1982The DropoutMiura
- 1982Toge no Gunzo
- 1981Hear the Wind SingMe
- 1981Call from DarknessTatsuo Tamura
- 1979Eighteen Years, to the SeaEisuke Morimoto
- 1977Ballad of OrinTorazo
- 1976The Sea of Genkai
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