Kaoru Kobayashi

Born

9/4/1951

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

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.

Known For76 Movies

Princess Mononoke
1997
★8.3
The Boy and the Heron
2023
★7.4
Tales from Earthsea
2006
★6.5
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
★7.7
The Second Love
1983
★6.3
The Last Blossom
2025
★8.1
Secret
1999
★6.9
Sham
2025
★7.0
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
★7.0
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2004
★7.0
Kubi
2023
★6.9
Kamui
2009
★6.1
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
★7.6
Ghiblies: Episode 2
2002
★7.1
The Funeral
1984
★7.1
Midnight Diner 2
2016
★7.5
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
★6.2
Paradise View
1985
★6.5
Midnight Diner
2014
★7.7
Uneasy Encounters
1994
★8.0
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
2017
★7.9
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
★6.9
Ballad of Orin
1977
★7.2
The Egoists
2011
★4.9
Untamagiru
1989
★4.6
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996
★6.0
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
★6.2
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
★6.1
The Great Passage
2013
★7.2
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
★8.1
Mukoku
2017
★6.8
Climbing to Spring
2014
★8.4
The Last U-Boat
1993
★5.7
Boys on the Run
2010
★5.0
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1979
★6.7
Haru's Journey
2010
★6.6
The Sea of Genkai
1976
★5.8
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
★5.2
Like Asura
2003
★6.6
For Business
1986
★8.0
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018
★7.0
The Island of Cats
2019
★7.0
Female
2005
★6.2
Arc
2021
★6.6
The Black House
1999
★6.0
The End of Summer
2013
★6.5
Love Letter
1985
★7.8
Botchan
2016
★8.3
The Wangan Highway
1984
★8.0
Winter Rose
2022
★6.5
His Lost Name
2019
★5.6
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
★6.0
Call from Darkness
1981
★6.3
A Crowd of Three
2010
★4.9
Hear the Wind Sing
1981
★6.6
The Dropout
1982
★6.4
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
★7.0
Then Summer Came
2008
★4.0
Yes, I Can't Swim
2022
★6.3
Shimanto River
1991
★6.8
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
1988
★8.0
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
★7.8
Lear on the Shore
2017
★6.4
Sketches of Kaitan City
2010
★5.4
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017
★4.5
Leaving on the 15th Spring
2013
★6.6
Coquille
1999
★7.6
And Then
1985
★7.2
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
2006
★7.6
Hong Kong Paradise
1990
★7.5
Double Trouble
2008
★8.0
Chibusa
1993
★9.0
Abraxas
2010
★10.0
The Washing Machine
1999
★7.0
Promised Land
2024
★6.0
Vacation
2008
★7.0