Kaoru Kobayashi
September 4, 1951(74 years old)
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan|Acting
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.
Movies (83)
7.8
The Last Blossom
2025
7.7
Sham
2025
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
6.0
Promised Land
2024
6.2
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
6.9
Kubi
2023
6.0
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
7.4
The Boy and the Heron
2023
7.8
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
Trapped Balloon
2023
7.6
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
6.3
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
6.0
Winter Rose
2022
6.6
Arc
2021
7.8
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Independence of Japan
2020
7.0
The Island of Cats
2019
5.6
His Lost Name
2019
7.0
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
7.1
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
6.2
Lear on the Shore
2017
6.8
Mukoku
2017
7.9
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
4.5
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
8.1
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
7.4
Midnight Diner 2
2016
6.1
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
8.3
Botchan
2016
7.6
Midnight Diner
2014
8.4
Climbing to Spring
2014
6.5
The End of Summer
2013
6.6
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
7.2
The Great Passage
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
4.9
The Egoists
2011
5.4
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
10.0
Abraxas
2010
4.9
A Crowd of Three
2010
6.5
Haru's Journey
2010
5.0
Boys on the Run
2010
6.1
Kamui
2009
4.0
Then Summer Came
2008
7.0
Vacation
2008
8.0
Double Trouble
2008
6.9
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
7.6
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
6.5
Tales from Earthsea
2006
A Melody for My Father
2005
6.2
Female
2005
6.9
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
6.5
Like Asura
2003
Ten Dark Women
2002
7.1
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
Le Secret
1999
6.0
The Black House
1999
6.9
Secret
1999
7.0
The Washing Machine
1999
7.6
Coquille
1999
8.3
Princess Mononoke
1997
6.0
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
8.0
Uneasy Encounters
1994
9.0
Chibusa
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
5.7
The Last U-Boat
1993
6.8
Shimanto River
1991
7.5
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
4.6
Untamagiru
1989
5.2
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
8.0
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
6.2
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
8.0
For Business
1986
7.1
And Then
1985
7.8
Love Letter
1985
6.5
Paradise View
1985
7.2
The Funeral
1984
8.0
The Wangan Highway
1984
6.3
The Second Love
1983
6.7
The Dropout
1982
6.6
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
6.3
Call from Darkness
1981
6.7
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
7.1
Ballad of Orin
1977
5.8
The Sea of Genkai
1976
TV Shows (40)
8.3
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
2025
7.8
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
8.3
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024
7.5
Worry Not, She's the Boss
2023
7.8
THE DAYS
2023
8.6
Fixer
2023
7.5
Solomon's Perjury
2021
7.3
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
2021
8.8
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
7.8
Off the Record
2020
8.3
Top League
2019
6.5
The Great White Tower
2019
6.6
Miracles
2018
7.0
Hagetaka
2018
Grade A Reversal
2017
7.0
Heaven
2017
7.9
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
8.2
Hibana: Spark
2016
5.0
Godan
2015
6.6
Koinaka
2015
7.4
The Emperor's Cook
2015
8.0
Hello Life from 55
2014
7.3
Villiany Ganbo
2014
7.5
Woman
2013
8.7
Trembling Cow
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
9.3
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
2012
8.1
Carnation
2011
7.0
The Castle of Sand
2011
8.5
The Marriage Counselor
2011
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
8.2
Midnight Diner
2009
The Sun in Kurobe
2009
8.7
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2003
8.5
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Ten urara
1998
Sunflower on the Hill
1993
Iki no Iiyatsu
1987
6.0
ふぞろいの林檎たち
1983
Toge no Gunzo
1982