
Cast
Kaoru Kobayashi
Acting
Cast
Kaoru Kobayashi
Known for
Acting
Born
1951-09-04
From
Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Also known as 小林薫, 小林薰, こばやし かおる
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.

Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)

The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)

Untamagiru
as Giru

Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane

Midnight Diner 2
as Master

Secret
as Heisuke Sugita

Ballad of Orin
as Torazo

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe

Sham

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka

Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino

The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke

Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe

The Funeral
as Inose

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka

The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki

Kamui
as Hanbei

The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

Arc
as Rihito

Female
as Old man

Midnight Diner
as Master

The Second Love
as Hideo Hyuga

The Tomb & the Divorce
as Yoshinori Ishino

Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine

Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Black House

Ghiblies: Episode 2
as Toshi-chan (Voice)

Botchan
as Madonna’s father

Love Letter
as Tetsushi Kamiya

Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita

Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Saitô (voice)

An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko

The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya

Call from Darkness
as Tatsuo Tamura

Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa

The Island of Cats
as Iwao

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

The Last U-Boat
as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

A Crowd of Three

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita

Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama

The Dropout
as Miura

Paradise View
as Reishu Goya

Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi

Eighteen Years, to the Sea
as Eisuke Morimoto

Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

Like Asura
as Takao Satomi

Then Summer Came

For Business
as Miyabi Sakuramiya

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

Love and Action in Osaka

The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi

Hear the Wind Sing
as Me

Lear on the Shore

Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shimanto River

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera

And Then
as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya

Double Trouble

Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita

The Sea of Genkai

Abraxas

Vacation
as Toru Hirai

Hong Kong Paradise
as Hachirou Ooishi

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami

Promised Land

The Wangan Highway
as Nakamura

Uneasy Encounters

Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama

Independence of Japan

Le Secret
as 杉田平介

His Lost Name
as Tetsuro

Chibusa

Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima

A Melody for My Father

Ten Dark Women
