Kaoru Kobayashi
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.
As actor 126
Solomon's Perjury
2021
Princess Mononoke
1997
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
2012
The Boy and the Heron
2023
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2003
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Midnight Diner
2009
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024
Ten urara
1998
Carnation
2011
THE DAYS
2023
Tales from Earthsea
2006
The Marriage Counselor
2011
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Hibana: Spark
2016
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Woman
2013
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Fixer
2023
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
2021
Top League
2019
Grade A Reversal
2017
Worry Not, She's the Boss
2023
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
Off the Record
2020
The Emperor's Cook
2015
Heaven
2017
Villiany Ganbo
2014
Call from Darkness
1981
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
2025
The Great White Tower
2019
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
Hagetaka
2018
The Castle of Sand
2011
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
The Last Blossom
2025
Koinaka
2015
The Second Love
1983
Miracles
2018
Secret
1999
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
Iki no Iiyatsu
1987
Paradise View
1985
Haru's Journey
2010
Sham
2025
Female
2005
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
The Sea of Genkai
1976
Untamagiru
1989
ふぞろいの林檎たち
1983
The Funeral
1984
Climbing to Spring
2014
Godan
2015
Kubi
2023
Midnight Diner 2
2016
Like Asura
2003
Kamui
2009
Winter Rose
2022
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
Midnight Diner
2014
For Business
1986
Trembling Cow
2013
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
Then Summer Came
2008
The Egoists
2011
The Black House
1999
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
The Great Passage
2013
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Ballad of Orin
1977
Botchan
2016
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
The Sun in Kurobe
2009
Mukoku
2017
Boys on the Run
2010
Independence of Japan
2020
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
The End of Summer
2013
Hello Life from 55
2014
And Then
1985
Love Letter
1985
His Lost Name
2019
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
憶えのない殺人
2025
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
Sunflower on the Hill
1993
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Arc
2021
Le Secret
1999
The Wangan Highway
1984
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
A Crowd of Three
2010
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
The Dropout
1982
The Island of Cats
2019
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
The Last U-Boat
1993
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
The Washing Machine
1999
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
Shimanto River
1991
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Chibusa
1993
Vacation
2008
ナニワ金融道
1996
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Coquille
1999
Abraxas
2010
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
Double Trouble
2008
Ten Dark Women
2002
Trapped Balloon
2023
Promised Land
2024
A Melody for My Father
2005