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.

Known For

Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Tales from Earthsea
Tales from Earthsea
Kamui
Kamui
Vacation
Vacation
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Boys on the Run
Boys on the Run

Filmography

2025 The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025 Sham
as
2025 Oboe no Nai Satsujin
as
2024 Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
as 仙川鶴一
2024 Promised Land
as
2024 The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024 The Tiger and Her Wings
as 穗高重亲
2023 Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023 Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
as
2023 Worry Not, She's the Boss
as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023 The Boy and the Heron
as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023 THE DAYS
as Furuya
2023 Fixer
as Ichiro Suzaki
2023 Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
as
2023 Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
2022 Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
2022 Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
2022 Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
2021 Solomon's Perjury
as 津崎 正男
2021 Arc
as Rihito