Kaoru Kobayashi

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Stage Name 小林薫

Known For Acting

Known Credits 116

Gender Male

Birthday September 4, 1951 (73 years old)

Place of Birth Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

小林薫
小林薰
こばやしかおる

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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

Acting

2024		Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai (3 episodes) as 仙川鶴一
2024		Promised Land
2024		The Yin-Yang Master Zero as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024		The Tiger and Her Wings (130 episodes) as Hodaka Shigechika

2023		Kubi as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023		Worry Not, She's the Boss (10 episodes) as Yamagami Tatsuo
2023		Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023		The Boy and the Heron as Noble Pelican (voice)
2023		THE DAYS (8 episodes) as Furuya
2023		Fixer (15 episodes) as Ichiro Suzaki
2023		Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
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 (8 episodes) as 津崎正男
2021		Arc as Rihito
2021		Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (41 episodes) as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2021		We Made a Beautiful Bouquet as Hirotaro Yamane

2020		Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku (1 episode) as Kotaki Reiji
2020		Off the Record (10 episodes) as Noto Toru

2019		Top League (6 episodes)
2019		The Great White Tower (5 episodes) as Mataichi Zaizen
2019		The Island of Cats as Iwao
2019		His Lost Name as Tetsuro

2018		Miracles (10 episodes) as Shun Samejima
2018		The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2018		Hagetaka (8 episodes) as Ryosuke Iijima
2018		Hagetaka as Ryosuke Iijima

2017		The Miracles of the Namiya General Store as Takeo Matsuoka
2017		Mukoku as Shozo Yatabe
2017		Lear on the Shore
2017		Kiseki: Sobito of That Day as Seiichi Morita
2017		Grade A Reversal (10 episodes)
2017		Heaven (6 episodes) as Doizaki Gen
2017		An Emblem Dedicated To You as Nakagawa Akiko

2016		Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" as Jisaku Koka
2016		Midnight Diner 2 as Master
2016		Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (20 episodes) as Master
2016		Natsumi's Firefly as Sakakiyama
2016		Hibana: Spark (10 episodes)
2016		Botchan as Madonna’s father

2015		Godan (6 episodes)
2015		Best Friends in Love (9 episodes) as Serizawa Hirotoshi

2014		Midnight Diner as Master
2014		Hello life from 55 (5 episodes)
2014		Climbing to Spring as Isao Nagamine
2014		Villiany Ganbo (11 episodes) as Gen Koshimizu

2013		The End of Summer as Shingo Kosugi
2013		Woman (11 episodes) as Uesugi Kentaro
2013		Furueru Ushi (5 episodes)
2013		Leaving on the 15th Spring as Toshiharu Nakazato
2013		The Great Passage as Kohei Araki
2013		Kyokuhoku Rhapsody (1 episode)
2013		Kyokuhoku Rhapsody as Masashi Sera

2012

(2 episodes) as Self - Narrator (voice)

2011		Carnation (151 episodes) as Zensaku Ohara
2011		The Castle of Sand (2 episodes)
2011		The Egoists as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011		The Marriage Counselor (11 episodes) as Syogo Yanagisawa

2010		Sketches of Kaitan City as Ryuzo Higa
2010		Abraxas
2010		A Crowd of Three
2010		Haru's Journey as Kinoshita
2010		Boys on the Run as Suzuki san

2009		News Sokuho wa Nagareta (11 episodes)
2009		Midnight Diner (30 episodes) as Master
2009		Kamui as Hanbei
2009		The Sun in Kurobe (2 episodes) as Kunpei Takiyama

2008		Then Summer Came
2008		Vacation as Toru Hirai
2008		Double Trouble

2007

as Oton

2006		The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya as Yasutada Kamiya
2006		Tales from Earthsea as The King (voice)

2005

as Old man

2004

as Mitsuru Watanabe

2003		Like Asura as Takao Satomi
2003		Dr. Coto's Clinic (11 episodes) as 星野正一

2002		Ghiblies: Episode 2 as Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002		The Private Detective Mike (1 episode)

1999		The Black House
1999		Secret as Heisuke Sugita
1999		The Washing Machine as Taiji Ogami
1999		Coquille as Tatsuya Urayama

1998

(156 episodes) as 松尾良治

1997

as Jikobo (voice)

1996		ナニワ金融道 (6 episodes) as 桑田澄男
1996		The Way of Osaka Financing 1

1994

1993		Chibusa
1993		The Tomb & the Divorce as Yoshinori Ishino
1993		Sunflower on the Hill (12 episodes) as Yuzuhara Kohei
1993		The Last U-Boat as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

1991

1990

as Hachirou Ooishi

1989

as Giru

1988		Love and Action in Osaka
1988		Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

1987		Twilight of the Cockroaches as Saitô
1987		Iki no Iiyatsu (23 episodes)

1986

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

1985		And Then as Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985		Love Letter as Tetsushi Kamiya
1985		Paradise View as Reishu Goya

1984		The Funeral as Inose
1984		The Wangan Highway as Nakamura

1983		ふぞろいの林檎たち (13 episodes) as 仲手川耕一
1983		The Second Love as Hideo Hyuga

1982		The Dropout
1982		Toge no Gunzo (50 episodes)

1981		Hear the Wind Sing as Me
1981		Call from Darkness as Tatsuo Tamura

1979

as Eisuke Morimoto

1977

as Torazo

1976

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