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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1997
A Crowd of Three
2010
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton
2007
The Funeral
as Inose
1984
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
2006
Kamui
as Hanbei
2009
Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Vacation
as Toru Hirai
2008
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
2004
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
2010
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
1999
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
2010
The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
2022
And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
1999
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
2013
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
2006
Ballad of Orin
as Torazo
1977
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
2013
TV Appearances
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Kotaki Reiji
2020
Top League
2019
The Castle of Sand
2011
Hello Life from 55
2014
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Fixer
as Ichiro Suzaki
2023
Midnight Diner
as Master
2009
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Solomon's Perjury
as 津崎 正男
2021
Villiany Ganbo
as Gen Koshimizu
2014
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009