Kaoru Kobayashi

Personal Info

Birthday

September 4, 1951

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

小林薫

小林薰

こばやしかおる

کائورو کوبایاشی

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 For

The Boy and the Heron

Princess Mononoke

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

The Tiger and Her Wings

Midnight Diner

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

Dr. Coto's Clinic

Carnation

Filmography

2025
The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2023
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
2021
Arc
as Rihito
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
2019
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
2017
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka
Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka
Midnight Diner 2
as Master
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
2014
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
2013
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
2011
The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2010
Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
2009
Kamui
as Hanbei
2008
Vacation
as Toru Hirai
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton
2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
2005
Female
as Old man
2004
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
2003
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
2002
Ghiblies: Episode 2
as Toshi-chan (Voice)
1999
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
1997
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino
The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1990
Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi
1989
Untamagiru
as Giru
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Saitô (voice)
1986
For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985
And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
Love Letter
as Tetsushi Kamiya
Paradise View
as Reishu Goya
1984
The Funeral
as Inose
The Wangan Highway
as Nakamura
1983
The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga
1981
Hear the Wind Sing
as Me
Call from Darkness
as Tatsuo Tamura
1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
as Eisuke Morimoto
1977
Ballad of Orin
as Torazo