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

Toge no Gunzo

Midnight Diner

Master

Dr. Coto's Clinic

星野正一

THE DAYS

Furuya

The Private Detective Mike

Fixer

Ichiro Suzaki

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

Master

Heaven

Doizaki Gen

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025	Sham
2025	The Last Blossom	Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2024	The Yin Yang Master Zero	Fujiwara Yosuke
2024	Promised Land
2023	Kubi	Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023	The Boy and the Heron	Noble Pelican (voice)
2023	Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023	Trapped Balloon	Shigezo Kojima
2023	Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2022	Yes, I Can't Swim	Professor Kamoshita
2022	Winter Rose	Giichi Wataguchi
2022	Dr. Coto's Clinic	Shoichi Hoshino
2021	We Made a Beautiful Bouquet	Hirotaro Yamane
2021	Arc	Rihito
2020	Independence of Japan
2019	His Lost Name	Tetsuro
2019	The Island of Cats	Iwao
2018	The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2017	Kiseki: Sobito of That Day	Seiichi Morita
2017	An Emblem Dedicated To You	Nakagawa Akiko
2017	Lear on the Shore
2017	Mukoku	Shozo Yatabe
2017	The Miracles of the Namiya General Store	Takeo Matsuoka
2016	Botchan	Madonna’s father
2016	Midnight Diner 2	Master
2016	Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"	Jisaku Koka
2016	Natsumi's Firefly	Sakakiyama
2014	Climbing to Spring	Isao Nagamine
2014	Midnight Diner	Master
2013	The Great Passage	Kohei Araki
2013	The End of Summer	Shingo Kosugi
2013	Leaving on the 15th Spring	Toshiharu Nakazato
2013	Kyokuhoku Rhapsody	Masashi Sera
2011	The Egoists	Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2010	A Crowd of Three
2010	Boys on the Run	Suzuki san
2010	Haru's Journey	Kinoshita
2010	Sketches of Kaitan City	Ryuzo Higa
2010	Abraxas
2009	Kamui	Hanbei
2008	Vacation	Toru Hirai
2008	Then Summer Came
2008	Double Trouble
2007	Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Oton
2006	Tales from Earthsea	The King (voice)
2006	The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya	Yasutada Kamiya
2005	Female	Old man
2004	Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog	Mitsuru Watanabe
2003	Like Asura	Takao Satomi
2002	Ghiblies: Episode 2	Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002	Ten Dark Women
1999	Secret	Heisuke Sugita
1999	Coquille	Tatsuya Urayama
1999	The Washing Machine	Taiji Ogami
1999	The Black House
1997	Princess Mononoke	Jikobo (voice)
1996	The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1994	Uneasy Encounters
1993	The Last U-Boat	Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
1993	The Tomb & the Divorce	Yoshinori Ishino
1993	Chibusa
1991	Shimanto River
1990	Hong Kong Paradise	Hachirou Ooishi
1989	Untamagiru	Giru
1988	Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
1988	Love and Action in Osaka
1987	Twilight of the Cockroaches	Saitô (voice)
1986	For Business	Miyabi Sakuramiya
1985	And Then	Tsunejiro Hiraoka
1985	Paradise View	Reishu Goya
1985	Love Letter	Tetsushi Kamiya
1984	The Funeral	Inose
1984	The Wangan Highway	Nakamura
1983	The Second Love	Hideo Hyuga
1982	The Dropout
1981	Call from Darkness	Tatsuo Tamura
1981	Hear the Wind Sing	Me
1979	Eighteen Years, to the Sea	Eisuke Morimoto
1977	Ballad of Orin	Torazo
1976	The Sea of Genkai

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	The Tiger and Her Wings	穗高重亲
2024	Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai	仙川鶴一
2023	Fixer	Ichiro Suzaki
2023	Worry Not, She's the Boss	Yamagami Tatsuo
2023	THE DAYS	Furuya
2021	Solomon's Perjury	津崎正男
2021	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]
2020	Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku	Kotaki Reiji
2020	Off the Record	Noto Toru
2019	Top League
2019	The Great White Tower	Mataichi Zaizen
2018	Hagetaka	Ryosuke Iijima
2018	Miracles	Shun Samejima
2017	Grade A Reversal
2017	Heaven	Doizaki Gen
2016	Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories	Master
2016	Hibana: Spark
2015	Best Friends in Love	Serizawa Hirotoshi
2015	Godan
2015	The Emperor's Cook
2014	Hello life from 55
2014	Villiany Ganbo	Gen Koshimizu
2013	Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
2013	Woman	Uesugi Kentaro
2013	Trembling Cow
2012	Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue	Self - Narrator (voice)
2011	The Castle of Sand
2011	The Marriage Counselor	Syogo Yanagisawa
2011	Carnation	Zensaku Ohara
2009	Midnight Diner	Master
2009	News Sokuho wa Nagareta
2009	The Sun in Kurobe	Kunpei Takiyama
2003	Dr. Coto's Clinic	星野正一
2002	The Private Detective Mike
1998	Ten urara	松尾良治
1996	ナニワ金融道	桑田澄男
1993	Sunflower on the Hill	Yuzuhara Kohei
1987	Iki no Iiyatsu
1983	ふぞろいの林檎たち	仲手川耕一
1982	Toge no Gunzo