Kaoru Kobayashi

Actor Sep 4 (age 74) Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan 1976–2025 (49 year career)

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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

Film

Princess Mononoke

Jikobo (voice)

Film

The Boy and the Heron

Noble Pelican (voice)

Film

Tales from Earthsea

The King (voice)

Film

THE DAYS

Furuya

Film

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Hirotaro Yamane

Film

Midnight Diner

Master

Film

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

Master

Film

Midnight Diner

Master

Filmography

Acting (127)

Movies (86)

Sham

2025

7.7

The Last Blossom

2025

as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

8.0

Love Begins in the World of If

2025

as Gaku Ibushi

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

2025

The Yin Yang Master Zero

as Fujiwara Yosuke

Promised Land

The Boy and the Heron

2023

as Noble Pelican (voice)

Kubi

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

Trapped Balloon

as Shigezo Kojima

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

Dr. Coto's Clinic

as Shoichi Hoshino

Yes, I Can't Swim

as Professor Kamoshita

6.3

Winter Rose

2022

as Giichi Wataguchi

6.0

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

as Hirotaro Yamane

Arc

as Rihito

Independence of Japan

The Island of Cats

as Iwao

His Lost Name

as Tetsuro

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Lear on the Shore

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

2017

as Seiichi Morita

7.9

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

as Takeo Matsuoka

Mukoku

as Shozo Yatabe

An Emblem Dedicated To You

2017

as Nakagawa Akiko

3.0

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

as Jisaku Koka

Botchan

as Madonna’s father

Natsumi's Firefly

as Sakakiyama

Midnight Diner 2

as Master

Climbing to Spring

as Isao Nagamine

Midnight Diner

as Master

The Great Passage

as Kohei Araki

The End of Summer

as Shingo Kosugi

Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013

as Toshiharu Nakazato

6.6

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

2013

as Masashi Sera

The Egoists

2011

as Kazuyuki Ninomiya

4.1

Castle of Sand

2011

as Imanishi Eitaro

Haru's Journey

as Kinoshita

A Crowd of Three

Abraxas

Boys on the Run

as Suzuki san

Sketches of Kaitan City

as Ryuzo Higa

Kamui

as Hanbei

Then Summer Came

Vacation

as Toru Hirai

Double Trouble

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

as Oton

Tales from Earthsea

as The King (voice)

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

as Yasutada Kamiya

Female

as Old man

A Melody for My Father

2005

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

as Mitsuru Watanabe

Like Asura

as Takao Satomi

Ghiblies: Episode 2

as Toshi-chan (Voice)

7.0

Ten Dark Women

2002

The Washing Machine

1999

as Taiji Ogami

The Black House

Secret

as Heisuke Sugita

Coquille

as Tatsuya Urayama

Le Secret

as 杉田平介

Princess Mononoke

1997

as Jikobo (voice)

8.3

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

Uneasy Encounters

The Last U-Boat

as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

5.4

Chibusa

1993

The Tomb & the Divorce

1993

as Yoshinori Ishino

Shimanto River

Hong Kong Paradise

as Hachirou Ooishi

Untamagiru

as Giru

Love and Action in Osaka

1988

4.8

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

1988

as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

7.0

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

as Saitô (voice)

5.8

For Business

1986

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

Love Letter

as Tetsushi Kamiya

And Then

as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

Paradise View

as Reishu Goya

The Wangan Highway

as Nakamura

The Funeral

1984

as Inose

7.1

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

The Second Love

as Hideo Hyuga

The Dropout

Call from Darkness

as Tatsuo Tamura

Hear the Wind Sing

as Me

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

as Eisuke Morimoto

Ballad of Orin

as Torazo

The Sea of Genkai

Television (41)

1972 Fireflies on the Shore

2025

as Taiei Tamashiro

8.5

The Tiger and Her Wings

2024

as 穗高重亲

8.3

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

as 仙川鶴一

THE DAYS

as Furuya

Fixer

as Ichiro Suzaki

Worry Not, She's the Boss

2023

as Yamagami Tatsuo

7.5

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

2021

as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

Solomon's Perjury

as 津崎正男

Off the Record

as Noto Toru

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

2020

as Kotaki Reiji

8.8

The Great White Tower

as Mataichi Zaizen

Top League

Miracles

as Shun Samejima

Hagetaka

as Ryosuke Iijima

Grade A Reversal

2017

Heaven

2017

as Doizaki Gen

6.3

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

as Master

Hibana: Spark

Koinaka

as Hirotoshi Serizawa

The Emperor's Cook

Godan

Villiany Ganbo

as Gen Koshimizu

Hello life from 55

Trembling Cow

Woman

as Uesugi Kentaro

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

2012

as Self - Narrator (voice)

9.3

Carnation

2011

as Zensaku Ohara

8.1

The Marriage Counselor

as Syogo Yanagisawa

The Castle of Sand

Midnight Diner

as Master

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

2009

The Sun in Kurobe

2009

as Kunpei Takiyama

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2003

as 星野正一

8.6

The Private Detective Mike

2002

8.4

Ten urara

1998

as 松尾良治

ナニワ金融道

1996

as 桑田澄男

6.0

Sunflower on the Hill

1993

as Yuzuhara Kohei

Iki no Iiyatsu

ふぞろいの林檎たち

as 仲手川耕一

Toge no Gunzo