Born September 4, 1951
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
125 credits
Acting
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.
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
2012 · ★ 9.3
Princess Mononoke
1997 · ★ 8.3
The Boy and the Heron
2023 · ★ 7.4
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024 · ★ 8.3
Carnation
2011 · ★ 8.1
Midnight Diner
2009 · ★ 8.2
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2003 · ★ 8.7
The Private Detective Mike
2002 · ★ 8.5
THE DAYS
2023 · ★ 7.8
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016 · ★ 7.9
Toge no Gunzo
1982 · ★ 0.0
The Emperor's Cook
2015 · ★ 7.4
Tales from Earthsea
2006 · ★ 6.5
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
2021 · ★ 7.3
Ten urara
1998 · ★ 0.0
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021 · ★ 7.8
Hibana: Spark
2016 · ★ 8.2
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020 · ★ 8.8
Top League
2019 · ★ 8.3
Koinaka
2015 · ★ 6.6
Miracles
2018 · ★ 6.6
The Great White Tower
2019 · ★ 6.5
Heaven
2017 · ★ 7.0
Hagetaka
2018 · ★ 7.0
Fixer
2023 · ★ 8.6
Woman
2013 · ★ 7.4
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024 · ★ 7.8
Iki no Iiyatsu
1987 · ★ 0.0
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009 · ★ 0.0
Secret
1999 · ★ 6.9
Worry Not, She's the Boss
2023 · ★ 7.5
Solomon's Perjury
2021 · ★ 7.5
Kubi
2023 · ★ 6.9
Off the Record
2020 · ★ 7.8
ふぞろいの林檎たち
1983 · ★ 6.0
The Funeral
1984 · ★ 7.2
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004 · ★ 6.9
The Great Passage
2013 · ★ 7.2
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007 · ★ 6.9
Midnight Diner
2014 · ★ 7.6
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017 · ★ 7.0
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024 · ★ 6.2
Boys on the Run
2010 · ★ 5.0
Midnight Diner 2
2016 · ★ 7.4
Kamui
2009 · ★ 6.1
A Crowd of Three
2010 · ★ 4.9
Untamagiru
1989 · ★ 4.6
The Sun in Kurobe
2009 · ★ 0.0
Ballad of Orin
1977 · ★ 7.1
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987 · ★ 6.2
Like Asura
2003 · ★ 6.5
The Egoists
2011 · ★ 4.9
The Marriage Counselor
2011 · ★ 8.5
Trembling Cow
2013 · ★ 8.7
Climbing to Spring
2014 · ★ 8.4
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016 · ★ 8.1
Grade A Reversal
2017 · ★ 0.0
Natsumi's Firefly
2016 · ★ 6.1
Haru's Journey
2010 · ★ 6.5
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022 · ★ 7.6
Hello Life from 55
2014 · ★ 8.0
Botchan
2016 · ★ 8.3
Lear on the Shore
2017 · ★ 6.2
Sham
2025 · ★ 7.7
The Second Love
1983 · ★ 6.3
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
2025 · ★ 8.3
The Castle of Sand
2011 · ★ 7.0
Mukoku
2017 · ★ 6.8
The Island of Cats
2019 · ★ 6.9
Villiany Ganbo
2014 · ★ 7.3
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017 · ★ 7.9
Love and Action in Osaka
1988 · ★ 5.2
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018 · ★ 7.0
And Then
1985 · ★ 7.1
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010 · ★ 5.4
ナニワ金融道
1996 · ★ 6.0
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002 · ★ 7.1
Hong Kong Paradise
1990 · ★ 7.5
Hear the Wind Sing
1981 · ★ 6.6
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017 · ★ 4.5
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013 · ★ 0.0
The Black House
1999 · ★ 6.0
Then Summer Came
2008 · ★ 4.0
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022 · ★ 6.3
Shimanto River
1991 · ★ 6.8
Female
2005 · ★ 6.2
Godan
2015 · ★ 5.0
The Dropout
1982 · ★ 6.7
Winter Rose
2022 · ★ 6.0
The End of Summer
2013 · ★ 6.5
His Lost Name
2019 · ★ 5.6
Double Trouble
2008 · ★ 8.0
Call from Darkness
1981 · ★ 6.3
For Business
1986 · ★ 8.0
The Last Blossom
2025 · ★ 7.8
Vacation
2008 · ★ 7.0
Arc
2021 · ★ 6.6
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006 · ★ 7.6
The Washing Machine
1999 · ★ 7.0
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023 · ★ 7.8
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013 · ★ 6.6
Sunflower on the Hill
1993 · ★ 0.0
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979 · ★ 6.7
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988 · ★ 8.0
Chibusa
1993 · ★ 9.0
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013 · ★ 0.0
Independence of Japan
2020 · ★ 0.0
Coquille
1999 · ★ 7.6
Love Letter
1985 · ★ 7.8
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023 · ★ 6.0
Uneasy Encounters
1994 · ★ 8.0
The Wangan Highway
1984 · ★ 8.0
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025 · ★ 0.0
The Last U-Boat
1993 · ★ 5.7
Abraxas
2010 · ★ 10.0
Ten Dark Women
2002 · ★ 0.0
The Tomb & the Divorce
1993 · ★ 0.0
Promised Land
2024 · ★ 6.0
Trapped Balloon
2023 · ★ 0.0
Paradise View
1985 · ★ 6.5
The Sea of Genkai
1976 · ★ 5.8
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996 · ★ 6.0
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984 · ★ 0.0
Le Secret
1999 · ★ 0.0
A Melody for My Father
2005 · ★ 0.0