
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