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Kaoru Kobayashi

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: Acting

Born: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan, 1951-09-04

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	The Sea of Genkai		50
2	1977	Ballad of Orin	Torazo	71
3	1979	Eighteen Years, to the Sea	Eisuke Morimoto	65
4	1981	Call from Darkness	Tatsuo Tamura	57
5	1981	Hear the Wind Sing	Me	60
6	1982	The Dropout		70
7	1983	The Second Love	Hideo Hyuga	55
8	1984	The Wangan Highway	Nakamura	0
9	1984	The Funeral	Inose	72
10	1985	Paradise View	Reishu Goya	53
11	1985	Love Letter	Tetsushi Kamiya	79
12	1985	And Then	Tsunejiro Hiraoka	70
13	1986	For Business	Miyabi Sakuramiya	0
14	1987	Twilight of the Cockroaches	Saitô (voice)	60
15	1988	Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)	70
16	1988	Love and Action in Osaka		57
17	1989	Untamagiru	Giru	47
18	1990	Hong Kong Paradise	Hachirou Ooishi	0
19	1991	Shimanto River		60
20	1993	The Last U-Boat	Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän	54
21	1993	The Tomb & the Divorce	Yoshinori Ishino	0
22	1993	Chibusa		0
23	1994	Uneasy Encounters		0
24	1996	The Way of Osaka Financing 1		60
25	1997	Princess Mononoke	Jikobo (voice)	83
26	1999	Coquille	Tatsuya Urayama	78
27	1999	The Washing Machine	Taiji Ogami	0
28	1999	Secret	Heisuke Sugita	68
29	1999	The Black House		62
30	2002	Ghiblies: Episode 2	Toshi-chan (Voice)	72
31	2003	Like Asura	Takao Satomi	69
32	2004	Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog	Mitsuru Watanabe	68
33	2005	Female	Old man	56
34	2006	Tales from Earthsea	The King (voice)	65
35	2006	The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya	Yasutada Kamiya	76
36	2007	Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Oton	69
37	2008	Double Trouble		80
38	2008	Vacation	Toru Hirai	70
39	2008	Then Summer Came		40
40	2009	Kamui	Hanbei	61
41	2010	Boys on the Run	Suzuki san	52
42	2010	Haru's Journey	Kinoshita	65
43	2010	A Crowd of Three		49
44	2010	Abraxas		100
45	2010	Sketches of Kaitan City	Ryuzo Higa	54
46	2011	The Egoists	Kazuyuki Ninomiya	46
47	2013	Kyokuhoku Rhapsody	Masashi Sera	0
48	2013	The Great Passage	Kohei Araki	72
49	2013	Leaving on the 15th Spring	Toshiharu Nakazato	66
50	2013	The End of Summer	Shingo Kosugi	65
51	2014	Climbing to Spring	Isao Nagamine	83
52	2014	Midnight Diner	Master	76
53	2016	Botchan	Madonna’s father	80
54	2016	Natsumi's Firefly	Sakakiyama	62
55	2016	Midnight Diner 2	Master	74
56	2016	Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"	Jisaku Koka	78
57	2017	An Emblem Dedicated To You	Nakagawa Akiko	30
58	2017	Kiseki: Sobito of That Day	Seiichi Morita	79
59	2017	Lear on the Shore		60
60	2017	Mukoku	Shozo Yatabe	62
61	2017	The Miracles of the Namiya General Store	Takeo Matsuoka	68
62	2018	The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan		70
63	2019	His Lost Name	Tetsuro	56
64	2019	The Island of Cats	Iwao	69
65	2020	Independence of Japan		0
66	2021	We Made a Beautiful Bouquet	Hirotaro Yamane	77
67	2021	Arc	Rihito	64
68	2022	Winter Rose	Giichi Wataguchi	50
69	2022	Yes, I Can't Swim	Professor Kamoshita	63
70	2022	Dr. Coto's Clinic	Shoichi Hoshino	73
71	2023	Trapped Balloon	Shigezo Kojima	0
72	2023	Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2		80
73	2023	The Boy and the Heron	Noble Pelican (voice)	74
74	2023	Tsugaru Lacquer Girl		60
75	2023	Kubi	Tokugawa Ieyasu	71
76	2024	The Yin Yang Master Zero	Fujiwara Yosuke	56
77	2024	Promised Land		60
78	2025	Oboe no Nai Satsujin		0
79	2025	The Last Blossom	Akutsu (1986) (voice)	0
80	2025	Sham		100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Toge no Gunzo		0
2	1983	ふぞろいの林檎たち	仲手川耕一	60
3	1987	Iki no Iiyatsu		0
4	1993	Sunflower on the Hill	Yuzuhara Kohei	0
5	1996	ナニワ金融道	桑田澄男	60
6	1998	Ten urara	松尾良治	0
7	2002	The Private Detective Mike		84
8	2003	Dr. Coto's Clinic	星野正一	86
9	2009	The Sun in Kurobe	Kunpei Takiyama	0
10	2009	Midnight Diner	Master	81
11	2009	News Sokuho wa Nagareta		0
12	2011	The Marriage Counselor	Syogo Yanagisawa	85
13	2011	The Castle of Sand		70
14	2011	Carnation	Zensaku Ohara	82
15	2012	Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue	Self - Narrator (voice)	93
16	2013	Kyokuhoku Rhapsody		0
17	2013	Trembling Cow		0
18	2013	Woman	Uesugi Kentaro	74
19	2014	Villiany Ganbo	Gen Koshimizu	73
20	2014	Hello life from 55		80
21	2015	The Emperor's Cook		74
22	2015	Best Friends in Love	Serizawa Hirotoshi	64
23	2015	Godan		50
24	2016	Hibana: Spark		82
25	2016	Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories	Master	78
26	2017	Heaven	Doizaki Gen	63
27	2017	Grade A Reversal		0
28	2018	Hagetaka	Ryosuke Iijima	0
29	2018	Miracles	Shun Samejima	63
30	2019	The Great White Tower	Mataichi Zaizen	65
31	2019	Top League		0
32	2020	Off the Record	Noto Toru	80
33	2020	Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku	Kotaki Reiji	83
34	2021	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]	73
35	2021	Solomon's Perjury	津崎正男	72
36	2023	Fixer	Ichiro Suzaki	84
37	2023	THE DAYS	Furuya	78
38	2023	Worry Not, She's the Boss	Yamagami Tatsuo	75
39	2024	The Tiger and Her Wings	穗高重亲	80
40	2024	Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai	仙川鶴一	77