Kaoru Kobayashi

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Acting

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

• The Last Blossom (2025)
• Sham (2025)
• Oboe no Nai Satsujin (2025)
• Promised Land (2024)
• The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)
• Kubi (2023)
• Tsugaru Lacquer Girl (2023)
• The Boy and the Heron (2023)
• Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 (2023)
• Trapped Balloon (2023)
• Dr. Coto's Clinic (2022)
• Yes, I Can't Swim (2022)
• Winter Rose (2022)
• Arc (2021)
• We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
• Independence of Japan (2020)
• The Island of Cats (2019)
• His Lost Name (2019)
• The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan (2018)
• The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2017)
• Lear on the Shore (2017)
• Mukoku (2017)
• Kiseki: Sobito of That Day (2017)
• An Emblem Dedicated To You (2017)
• Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" (2016)
• Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
• Natsumi's Firefly (2016)
• Botchan (2016)
• Midnight Diner (2014)
• Climbing to Spring (2014)
• The End of Summer (2013)
• Leaving on the 15th Spring (2013)
• The Great Passage (2013)
• Kyokuhoku Rhapsody (2013)
• The Egoists (2011)
• Sketches of Kaitan City (2010)
• Abraxas (2010)
• A Crowd of Three (2010)
• Haru's Journey (2010)
• Boys on the Run (2010)
• Kamui (2009)
• Then Summer Came (2008)
• Vacation (2008)
• Double Trouble (2008)
• Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
• The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya (2006)
• Tales from Earthsea (2006)
• A Melody for My Father (2005)
• Female (2005)
• Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)
• Like Asura (2003)
• Ten Dark Women (2002)
• Ghiblies: Episode 2 (2002)
• Le Secret (1999)
• The Black House (1999)
• Secret (1999)
• The Washing Machine (1999)
• Coquille (1999)
• Princess Mononoke (1997)
• The Way of Osaka Financing 1 (1996)
• Uneasy Encounters (1994)
• Chibusa (1993)
• The Tomb & the Divorce (1993)
• The Last U-Boat (1993)
• Shimanto River (1991)
• Hong Kong Paradise (1990)
• Untamagiru (1989)
• Love and Action in Osaka (1988)
• Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad (1988)
• Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
• For Business (1986)
• And Then (1985)
• Love Letter (1985)
• Paradise View (1985)
• The Funeral (1984)
• The Wangan Highway (1984)
• Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna! (1984)
• The Second Love (1983)
• The Dropout (1982)
• Hear the Wind Sing (1981)
• Call from Darkness (1981)
• Eighteen Years, to the Sea (1979)
• Ballad of Orin (1977)
• The Sea of Genkai (1976)