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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Princess Mononoke (1997) — Jikobo (voice)
2. The Boy and the Heron (2023) — Noble Pelican (voice)
3. Tales from Earthsea (2006) — The King (voice)
4. THE DAYS (2023) — Furuya
5. We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021) — Hirotaro Yamane
6. Midnight Diner (2009) — Master
7. Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016) — Master
8. Midnight Diner (2014) — Master
9. The Great Passage (2013) — Kohei Araki
10. The Funeral (1984) — Inose
11. Kamui (2009) — Hanbei
12. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2017) — Takeo Matsuoka
13. Kubi (2023) — Tokugawa Ieyasu
14. Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004) — Mitsuru Watanabe
15. The Emperor's Cook (2015)
16. Midnight Diner 2 (2016) — Master
17. Secret (1999) — Heisuke Sugita
18. Woman (2013) — Uesugi Kentaro
19. Hibana: Spark (2016)
20. And Then (1985) — Tsunejiro Hiraoka
21. Ballad of Orin (1977) — Torazo
22. Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007) — Oton
23. The Black House (1999)
24. Like Asura (2003) — Takao Satomi
25. Ghiblies: Episode 2 (2002) — Toshi-chan (Voice)
26. Boys on the Run (2010) — Suzuki san
27. Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) — Saitô (voice)
28. The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024) — Fujiwara Yosuke
29. Haru's Journey (2010) — Kinoshita
30. The End of Summer (2013) — Shingo Kosugi
31. Vacation (2008) — Toru Hirai
32. The Last U-Boat (1993) — Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
33. The Island of Cats (2019) — Iwao
34. Miracles (2018) — Shun Samejima
35. Lear on the Shore (2017)
36. Love Letter (1985) — Tetsushi Kamiya
37. Sham (2025)
38. The Last Blossom (2025) — Akutsu (1986) (voice)
39. Leaving on the 15th Spring (2013) — Toshiharu Nakazato
40. The Egoists (2011) — Kazuyuki Ninomiya