Kaoru Kobayashi
Known for: Acting
Born: September 4, 1951
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
Vacation
2008
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
Coquille
1999
Untamagiru
1989
Midnight Diner
2014
Paradise View
1985
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
Midnight Diner 2
2016
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
Chibusa
1993
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
His Lost Name
2019
Double Trouble
2008
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
The Last Blossom
2025
A Melody for My Father
2005
Secret
1999
The End of Summer
2013
Trapped Balloon
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
Call from Darkness
1981
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
The Second Love
1983
Le Secret
1999
Kamui
2009
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
And Then
1985
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
For Business
1986
The Last U-Boat
1993
The Washing Machine
1999
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
Abraxas
2010
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
The Wangan Highway
1984
Independence of Japan
2020
Princess Mononoke
1997
The Dropout
1982
Love Letter
1985
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Haru's Journey
2010
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
Lear on the Shore
2017
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Ten Dark Women
2002
Boys on the Run
2010
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
Winter Rose
2022
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
Promised Land
2024
Ballad of Orin
1977
Climbing to Spring
2014
Like Asura
2003
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
Mukoku
2017
The Island of Cats
2019
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Then Summer Came
2008
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
The Egoists
2011
Tales from Earthsea
2006
The Great Passage
2013
Female
2005
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
Arc
2021
Kubi
2023
Botchan
2016
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
Shimanto River
1991
Sham
2025
The Black House
1999
The Boy and the Heron
2023
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
The Sea of Genkai
1976
The Funeral
1984
A Crowd of Three
2010
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