Kaoru Kobayashi

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.

Filmography

Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
A Crowd of Three
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Oton
The Funeral
Inose
Tales from Earthsea
The King (voice)
Kamui
Hanbei
Kubi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Vacation
Toru Hirai
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Mitsuru Watanabe
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
Secret
Heisuke Sugita
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
Yes, I Can't Swim
Professor Kamoshita
And Then
Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
The Great Passage
Kohei Araki
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
Ballad of Orin
Torazo
The End of Summer
Shingo Kosugi
Leaving on the 15th Spring
Toshiharu Nakazato
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
Untamagiru
Giru
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Fujiwara Yosuke
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Shoichi Hoshino
The Egoists
Kazuyuki Ninomiya
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
Female
Old man
Midnight Diner
Master
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
Promised Land
Botchan
Madonna’s father
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Seiichi Morita
Call from Darkness
Tatsuo Tamura
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
Midnight Diner 2
Master
The Black House
Love and Action in Osaka
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Jisaku Koka
Natsumi's Firefly
Sakakiyama
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
Abraxas
Lear on the Shore
Mukoku
Shozo Yatabe
The Dropout
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Takeo Matsuoka
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
Chibusa
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
The Island of Cats
Iwao
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
The Second Love
Hideo Hyuga
Then Summer Came
Uneasy Encounters
The Sea of Genkai
Shimanto River
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Hirotaro Yamane
Arc
Rihito
Double Trouble
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
Sham
Independence of Japan
The Last Blossom
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
Ten Dark Women