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Kaoru Kobayashiborn 1951

usually

Actor

Popularity

2.2

Famous

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.

Credits

Sham

2025

Drama • Thriller

0(0)

0.3

The Last Blossom

2025

Animation • Crime • Drama

as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

0(0)

0.4

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2025

Drama • Mystery • TV Movie

0(0)

0.6

Promised Land

2024

Drama

6(1)

0.5

The Yin Yang Master Zero

2024

Fantasy • History • Mystery

as Fujiwara Yosuke

5.6(7)

1.1

Kubi

2023

Action • Comedy • Drama • History • Thriller

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

7.1(32)

0.7

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

2023

Drama

6(3)

0.2

The Boy and the Heron

2023

Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy

as Noble Pelican (voice)

7.4(2,173)

12.3

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

2023

Action • Crime • Drama

8(4)

0.4

Trapped Balloon

2023

Drama

as Shigezo Kojima

0(0)

0.4

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2022

Drama

as Shoichi Hoshino

7.3(3)

0.7

Yes, I Can't Swim

2022

Drama

as Professor Kamoshita

6.3(6)

0.5

Winter Rose

2022

Drama

as Giichi Wataguchi

5(2)

0.3

Arc

2021

Drama • Science Fiction

as Rihito

6.4(7)

0.3

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021

Drama • Romance

as Hirotaro Yamane

7.7(96)

2.1

Independence of Japan

2020

History

0(0)

0.1

The Island of Cats

2019

Drama

as Iwao

6.9(8)

0.3

His Lost Name

2019

Drama • Mystery

as Tetsuro

5.6(5)

0.2

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018

Drama

7(5)

0.1

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

2017

Drama • Family • Fantasy • Mystery

as Takeo Matsuoka

6.8(41)

0.6

Lear on the Shore

2017

Drama

6(8)

0.2

Mukoku

2017

Action • Adventure • Drama

as Shozo Yatabe

6.2(4)

0.3

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

2017

Drama

as Seiichi Morita

7.9(8)

0.4

An Emblem Dedicated To You

2017

Drama

as Nakagawa Akiko

3(1)

0.1

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

2016

Drama • History

as Jisaku Koka

7.8(4)

0.3

Midnight Diner 2

2016

Drama • Family

as Master

7.4(31)

0.6

Natsumi's Firefly

2016

Drama

as Sakakiyama

6.2(6)

0.3

Botchan

2016

Drama

as Madonna’s father

8(2)

0.6

Midnight Diner

2014

Drama

as Master

7.6(60)

0.9

Climbing to Spring

2014

Drama

as Isao Nagamine

8.3(7)

0.4

The End of Summer

2013

Drama • Romance

as Shingo Kosugi

6.5(11)

0.3

Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013

Drama

as Toshiharu Nakazato

6.6(8)

0.1

The Great Passage

2013

Drama

as Kohei Araki

7.2(59)

0.7

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013

as Masashi Sera

0(0)

0.2

The Egoists

2011

Drama • Romance

as Kazuyuki Ninomiya

4.6(5)

0.5

Sketches of Kaitan City

2010

Drama

as Ryuzo Higa

5.4(5)

0.5

Abraxas

2010

Drama

10(1)

0.2

A Crowd of Three

2010

Drama

4.9(4)

0.3

Haru's Journey

2010

Drama

as Kinoshita

6.5(11)

0.4

Boys on the Run

2010

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Suzuki san

5.2(13)

0.3

Kamui

2009

Action • Drama

as Hanbei

6.1(46)

Then Summer Came

2008

Drama

4(1)

0.2

Vacation

2008

Drama

as Toru Hirai

7(8)

0.1

Double Trouble

2008

Comedy • Drama • Music

8(1)

0.3

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007

Drama

as Oton

6.9(14)

0.5

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

2006

Drama

as Yasutada Kamiya

7.6(5)

0.4

Tales from Earthsea

2006

Adventure • Animation • Fantasy

as The King (voice)

6.5(1,357)

Female

2005

Comedy • Drama

as Old man

5.6(5)

0.3

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004

Drama

as Mitsuru Watanabe

7(34)

0.6

Like Asura

2003

Comedy • Drama

as Takao Satomi

6.9(14)

0.2

Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002

Animation • Comedy

as Toshi-chan (Voice)

7.2(12)

0.6

The Black House

1999

Horror

6.3(11)

0.4

Secret

1999

Drama • Fantasy

as Heisuke Sugita

6.8(31)

0.6

The Washing Machine

1999

Comedy • Romance

as Taiji Ogami

0(0)

0.3

Coquille

1999

Drama

as Tatsuya Urayama

7.8(6)

0.3

Princess Mononoke

1997

Adventure • Animation • Fantasy

as Jikobo (voice)

8.3(8,338)

12.1

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1996

Drama • TV Movie

6(1)

0.1

Uneasy Encounters

1994

Comedy • Horror

0(0)

0.1

Chibusa

1993

Drama • Romance

0(0)

0.2

The Tomb & the Divorce

1993

Comedy

as Yoshinori Ishino

0(0)

0.1

The Last U-Boat

1993

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

5.4(9)

0.6

Shimanto River

1991

Drama

6(3)

0.2

Hong Kong Paradise

1990

Action • Adventure • Crime

as Hachirou Ooishi

0(0)

0.3

Untamagiru

1989

Comedy • Drama • Fantasy

as Giru

4.7(3)

0.4

Love and Action in Osaka

1988

Action • Crime • Drama

5.7(3)

0.3

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1988

Comedy

as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

7(1)

0.3

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Romance • Science Fiction

as Saitô (voice)

6.1(9)

For Business

1986

Comedy • Drama

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

0(0)

0.2

And Then

1985

Drama

as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

7(20)

0.3

Love Letter

1985

Drama

as Tetsushi Kamiya

7.9(7)

0.1

Paradise View

1985

Comedy • Drama

as Reishu Goya

5.3(3)

The Funeral

1984

Comedy • Drama

as Inose

7.2(45)

0.6

The Wangan Highway

1984

Drama • Romance

as Nakamura

0(0)

0.2

The Second Love

1983

Drama

as Hideo Hyuga

5.5(2)

0.2

The Dropout

1982

Drama • Thriller

7(3)

0.3

Hear the Wind Sing

1981

Drama

as Me

6(4)

0.5

Call from Darkness

1981

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Tatsuo Tamura

5.7(6)

0.2

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

1979

Drama

as Eisuke Morimoto

6.5(2)

0.3

Ballad of Orin

1977

Drama

as Torazo

7.1(21)

0.6

The Sea of Genkai

1976

Crime • Drama

5(4)

0.4