🎭 Actor

Kaoru Kobayashi

🎂 Born 4 September 1951 (age 74)📍 Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Popularity Score

Acting Credits

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

2023

Noble Pelican (voice)

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021

Hirotaro Yamane

Full Filmography(83 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

1997Princess MononokeJikobo (voice)★ 8.3 2023The Boy and the HeronNoble Pelican (voice)★ 7.4 2006Tales from EarthseaThe King (voice)★ 6.5 2021We Made a Beautiful BouquetHirotaro Yamane★ 7.8 2017The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreTakeo Matsuoka★ 7.0 2025Sham—★ 7.6 1999SecretHeisuke Sugita★ 6.9 2004Quill: The Life of a Guide DogMitsuru Watanabe★ 6.9 1984The FuneralInose★ 7.1 2010A Crowd of Three—★ 4.9 2014Midnight DinerMaster★ 7.6 1977Ballad of OrinTorazo★ 7.1 2009KamuiHanbei★ 6.1 2011The EgoistsKazuyuki Ninomiya★ 4.9 1989UntamagiruGiru★ 4.6 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes DadOton★ 6.9 2016Midnight Diner 2Master★ 7.4 2024The Yin Yang Master ZeroFujiwara Yosuke★ 6.2 1979Eighteen Years, to the SeaEisuke Morimoto★ 6.7 2017Kiseki: Sobito of That DaySeiichi Morita★ 7.9 2013The Great PassageKohei Araki★ 7.2 2023KubiTokugawa Ieyasu★ 6.9 2022Dr. Coto's ClinicShoichi Hoshino★ 7.6 2016BotchanMadonna’s father★ 8.3 1987Twilight of the CockroachesSaitô (voice)★ 6.2 2014Climbing to SpringIsao Nagamine★ 8.4 1983The Second LoveHideo Hyuga★ 6.3 2005FemaleOld man★ 6.2 2016Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"Jisaku Koka★ 8.1 2019The Island of CatsIwao★ 7.0 1999The Black House—★ 6.0 1993Chibusa—★ 9.0 1985Love LetterTetsushi Kamiya★ 7.8 1982The DropoutMiura★ 6.4 2025The Last BlossomAkutsu (1986) (voice)★ 8.1 1981Call from DarknessTatsuo Tamura★ 6.3 2010Boys on the RunSuzuki san★ 5.0 1988Bakayaro! I'm Plenty MadShigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)★ 8.0 2022Yes, I Can't SwimProfessor Kamoshita★ 6.3 1991Shimanto River—★ 6.8 2016Natsumi's FireflySakakiyama★ 6.1 2002Ghiblies: Episode 2Toshi-chan (Voice)★ 7.1 2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan—★ 7.0 2022Winter RoseGiichi Wataguchi★ 6.0 1993The Last U-BoatTatsumi - Fregattenkapitän★ 5.7 2017MukokuShozo Yatabe★ 6.8 2021ArcRihito★ 6.6 2010Sketches of Kaitan CityRyuzo Higa★ 5.4 1981Hear the Wind SingMe★ 6.6 1988Love and Action in Osaka—★ 5.2 2013Leaving on the 15th SpringToshiharu Nakazato★ 6.6 2003Like AsuraTakao Satomi★ 6.5 1990Hong Kong ParadiseHachirou Ooishi★ 7.5 1986For BusinessMiyabi Sakuramiya★ 8.0 2025Oboe no Nai Satsujin—★ 7.0 1976The Sea of Genkai—★ 5.8 2023Tsugaru Lacquer Girl—★ 6.0 2010Haru's JourneyKinoshita★ 6.5 1999CoquilleTatsuya Urayama★ 7.6 2017Lear on the Shore—★ 6.2 2008Double Trouble—★ 8.0 2017An Emblem Dedicated To YouNakagawa Akiko★ 4.5 2006The Blossoming of Etsuko KamiyaYasutada Kamiya★ 7.6 2008Then Summer Came—★ 4.0 2020Independence of Japan——1999The Washing MachineTaiji Ogami★ 7.0 1984The Wangan HighwayNakamura★ 8.0 2013The End of SummerShingo Kosugi★ 6.5 1994Uneasy Encounters—★ 8.0 2010Abraxas—★ 10.0 2002Ten Dark Women——1985And ThenTsunejiro Hiraoka★ 7.1 1993The Tomb & the DivorceYoshinori Ishino—2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2—★ 7.8 1999Le Secret杉田平介—2019His Lost NameTetsuro★ 5.6 2013Kyokuhoku RhapsodyMasashi Sera—2023Trapped BalloonShigezo Kojima—2008VacationToru Hirai★ 7.0 2024Promised Land—★ 6.0 1985Paradise ViewReishu Goya★ 6.5 2005A Melody for My Father——1996The Way of Osaka Financing 1—★ 6.0

← Back to Vistriq