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.

Filmography

• 1972 Fireflies on the Shore — Taiei Tamashiro
• 2025Oboe no Nai Satsujin
• 2025Sham
• 2025The Last Blossom — Akutsu (1986) (voice)
• 憶えのない殺人 — 佐治英雄
• 2024Promised Land
• Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai — Tsuruichi Senkawa
• The Tiger and Her Wings — Hodaka Shigechika
• 2024The Yin Yang Master Zero — Fujiwara Yosuke
• 2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
• Fixer — Ichiro Suzaki
• 2023Kubi — Tokugawa Ieyasu
• THE DAYS — Furuya
• 2023The Boy and the Heron — Noble Pelican (voice)
• 2023Trapped Balloon — Shigezo Kojima
• 2023Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
• Worry Not, She's the Boss — Yamagami Tatsuo
• 2022Dr. Coto's Clinic — Shoichi Hoshino
• 2022Winter Rose — Giichi Wataguchi
• 2022Yes, I Can't Swim — Professor Kamoshita
• 2021Arc — Rihito
• Reach Beyond the Blue Sky — Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
• Solomon's Perjury — Masao Tsuzaki
• 2021We Made a Beautiful Bouquet — Hirotaro Yamane
• 2020Independence of Japan
• Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku — Kotaki Reiji
• Off the Record — Noto Toru
• 2019His Lost Name — Tetsuro
• The Great White Tower — Mataichi Zaizen
• 2019The Island of Cats — Iwao
• Top League
• Hagetaka — Ryosuke Iijima
• Miracles — Shun Samejima
• 2018The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan — Mamoru Fujita
• 2017An Emblem Dedicated To You — Nakagawa Akiko
• Grade A Reversal
• Heaven — Doizaki Gen
• 2017Kiseki: Sobito of That Day — Seiichi Morita
• 2017Lear on the Shore
• 2017Mukoku — Shozo Yatabe
• 2017The Miracles of the Namiya General Store — Takeo Matsuoka
• 2016Botchan — Madonna’s father
• 2016Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" — Jisaku Koka
• Hibana: Spark
• 2016Midnight Diner 2 — Master
• Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories — Master
• 2016Natsumi's Firefly — Sakakiyama
• Godan
• Koinaka — Hirotoshi Serizawa
• The Emperor's Cook
• 2014Climbing to Spring — Isao Nagamine
• Hello Life from 55
• 2014Midnight Diner — Master
• Villiany Ganbo — Gen Koshimizu
• 2013Kyokuhoku Rhapsody — Masashi Sera
• Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
• 2013Leaving on the 15th Spring — Toshiharu Nakazato
• 2013The End of Summer — Shingo Kosugi
• 2013The Great Passage — Kohei Araki
• Trembling Cow
• Woman — Uesugi Kentaro
• Carnation — Zensaku Ohara
• The Castle of Sand
• 2011The Egoists — Kazuyuki Ninomiya
• The Marriage Counselor — Syogo Yanagisawa, Creator
• 2010A Crowd of Three
• 2010Abraxas
• 2010Boys on the Run — Suzuki san
• 2010Haru's Journey — Kinoshita
• 2010Sketches of Kaitan City — Ryuzo Higa
• 2009Kamui — Hanbei
• Midnight Diner — Master
• News Sokuho wa Nagareta
• The Sun in Kurobe — Kunpei Takiyama
• 2008Double Trouble
• 2008Then Summer Came
• 2008Vacation — Toru Hirai
• 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad — Oton
• 2006Tales from Earthsea — The King (voice)
• 2006The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya — Yasutada Kamiya
• 2005A Melody for My Father
• 2005Female — Old man
• 2004Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog — Mitsuru Watanabe
• Dr. Coto's Clinic — 星野正一
• 2003Like Asura — Takao Satomi
• 2002Ghiblies: Episode 2 — Toshi-chan (Voice)
• 2002Ten Dark Women
• The Private Detective Mike
• 1999Coquille — Tatsuya Urayama
• 1999Le Secret — 杉田平介
• 1999Secret — Heisuke Sugita
• 1999The Black House
• 1999The Washing Machine — Taiji Ogami
• Ten urara — 松尾良治
• 1997Princess Mononoke — Jikobo (voice)
• 1996The Way of Osaka Financing 1
• ナニワ金融道 — 桑田 澄男
• 1994Uneasy Encounters
• 1993Chibusa
• Sunflower on the Hill — Yuzuhara Kohei
• 1993The Last U-Boat — Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
• 1993The Tomb & the Divorce — Yoshinori Ishino
• 1991Shimanto River
• 1990Hong Kong Paradise — Hachirou Ooishi
• 1989Untamagiru — Giru
• 1988Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad — Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
• 1988Love and Action in Osaka
• Iki no Iiyatsu
• 1987Twilight of the Cockroaches — Saitô (voice)
• 1986For Business — Miyabi Sakuramiya
• 1985And Then — Tsunejiro Hiraoka
• 1985Love Letter — Tetsushi Kamiya
• 1985Paradise View — Reishu Goya
• 1984Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
• 1984The Funeral — Inose
• 1984The Wangan Highway — Nakamura
• 1983The Second Love — Hideo Hyuga
• ふぞろいの林檎たち — 仲手川 耕一
• 1982The Dropout — Miura
• Toge no Gunzo
• 1981Call from Darkness — Tatsuo Tamura
• 1981Hear the Wind Sing — Me
• 1979Eighteen Years, to the Sea — Eisuke Morimoto
• 1977Ballad of Orin — Torazo
• 1976The Sea of Genkai

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue — Self - Narrator (voice)