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