Cast & creator
Kaoru Kobayashi
Best known for Princess Mononoke, Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue, Carnation
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.
Also known as: こばやし かおる, کائورو کوبایاشی
84
film credits
43
television credits
126
1976–2025 · acting roles
7.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (127)
Showing 127 of 127 credits
Princess Mononoke
Jikobo (voice)
1997
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
Carnation
Zensaku Ohara
2011
The Boy and the Heron
Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
The Tiger and Her Wings
Hodaka Shigechika
2024
Midnight Diner
Master
2009
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Master
2016
Dr. Coto's Clinic
星野正一
2003
THE DAYS
Furuya
2023
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2021
Tales from Earthsea
The King (voice)
2006
Woman
Uesugi Kentaro
2013
Ten urara
松尾良治
1998
Fixer
Ichiro Suzaki
2023
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Grade A Reversal
2017
Hibana: Spark
2016
ふぞろいの林檎たち
仲手川 耕一
1983
Off the Record
Noto Toru
2020
The Great White Tower
Mataichi Zaizen
2019
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Hirotaro Yamane
2021
Hagetaka
Ryosuke Iijima
2018
The Emperor's Cook
2015
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Kotaki Reiji
2020
Koinaka
Hirotoshi Serizawa
2015
The Marriage Counselor
Syogo Yanagisawa
2011The Marriage Counselor
Creator
2011
Heaven
Doizaki Gen
2017
Miracles
Shun Samejima
2018
Solomon's Perjury
Masao Tsuzaki
2021
Iki no Iiyatsu
1987
Villiany Ganbo
Gen Koshimizu
2014
The Funeral
Inose
1984
Top League
2019
Trembling Cow
2013
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
Taiei Tamashiro
2025
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
1979
The Castle of Sand
2011
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Tsuruichi Senkawa
2024
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Yamagami Tatsuo
2023
Midnight Diner
Master
2014
Midnight Diner 2
Master
2016
Kubi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Shoichi Hoshino
2022
The Last Blossom
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
Kamui
Hanbei
2009
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002
Sunflower on the Hill
Yuzuhara Kohei
1993
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Oton
2007
Sham
2025
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Takeo Matsuoka
2017ナニワ金融道
桑田 澄男
1996
Secret
Heisuke Sugita
1999
憶えのない殺人
佐治英雄
2025
Le Secret
杉田平介
1999
Godan
2015The Sun in Kurobe
Kunpei Takiyama
2009
The Second Love
Hideo Hyuga
1983
Hello Life from 55
2014
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Mitsuru Watanabe
2004
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
2003
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1993
The Island of Cats
Iwao
2019
The Great Passage
Kohei Araki
2013
Ballad of Orin
Torazo
1977
Mukoku
Shozo Yatabe
2017
Untamagiru
Giru
1989
Female
Old man
2005
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
1987
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Seiichi Morita
2017
Natsumi's Firefly
Sakakiyama
2016
The Black House
1999
The Egoists
Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
Leaving on the 15th Spring
Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Jisaku Koka
2016
Love and Action in Osaka
1988
And Then
Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
2010
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Mamoru Fujita
2018
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
2010
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
2017
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
1985
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
1986
Abraxas
2010
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
2014
A Crowd of Three
2010
Yes, I Can't Swim
Professor Kamoshita
2022
Uneasy Encounters
1994
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
2022
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1988
Then Summer Came
2008
The Dropout
Miura
1982
The End of Summer
Shingo Kosugi
2013
Arc
Rihito
2021
Lear on the Shore
2017
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
1984
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
2013
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
1999
Botchan
Madonna’s father
2016
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
1985Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
2019
Vacation
Toru Hirai
2008
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
2006
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
1993
The Sea of Genkai
1976
Call from Darkness
Tatsuo Tamura
1981
Shimanto River
1991
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
2010
Double Trouble
2008
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
2023
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
1990
Independence of Japan
2020
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
1981
Ten Dark Women
2002
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
1999
A Melody for My Father
2005
Promised Land
2024
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996