Kaoru Kobayashi
Birthday: 1951-09-04
Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Movies
Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must jou...
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A Crowd of Three
A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a ch...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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Tales from Earthsea
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act ...
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Kamui
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family....
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Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
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Vacation
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spen...
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Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then ...
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Boys on the Run
A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick ri...
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Secret
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his w...
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Haru's Journey
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a t...
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The Boy and the Heron
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is reloc...
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Yes, I Can't Swim
Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to...
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And Then
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 y...
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Coquille
Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer...
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The Great Passage
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that...
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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who li...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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The End of Summer
The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle betwee...
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when...
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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
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For Business
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble ec...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's...
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Winter Rose
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted del...
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The Last U-Boat
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Jap...
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Untamagiru
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a...
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The Washing Machine
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a...
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Trapped Balloon
A woman who has not seen her father for several years and does not have a good relationship with him...
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration wit...
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Dr. Coto's Clinic
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more tha...
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The Egoists
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts ...
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Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the...
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Female
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Sh...
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Midnight Diner
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series o...
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The Way of Osaka Financing 1
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2...
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Sketches of Kaitan City
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar ...
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Paradise View
Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entire...
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Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender an...
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Promised Land
Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, bu...
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Botchan
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching j...
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Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
Based on the true story of 4 member Japanese pop group "GreeeeN.” Jin is the producer of “GreeeeN” a...
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Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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Hear the Wind Sing
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usu...
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Midnight Diner 2
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and...
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The Black House
A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the f...
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Love and Action in Osaka
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubar...
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Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. ...
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Natsumi's Firefly
Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes ...
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An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A fo...
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Abraxas
Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His man...
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Lear on the Shore
Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. His daugh...
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Mukoku
Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a...
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The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensi...
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They...
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The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with b...
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Chibusa
Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993)....
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Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar...
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of spa...
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His Lost Name
Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small s...
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The Island of Cats
Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with h...
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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a you...
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Love Letter
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukem...
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Hong Kong Paradise
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in...
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The Second Love
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emo...
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Then Summer Came
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “go...
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The Sea of Genkai
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome...
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Shimanto River
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He come...
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Ghiblies: Episode 2
Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about...
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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship ov...
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Arc
Rina is living a nomadic existence when at age 19 she meets her mentor Ema and gets a job doing "Bod...
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Double Trouble
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names ...
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Like Asura
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a privat...
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The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...
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Oboe no Nai Satsujin
An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that ...
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Sham
When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teache...
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Independence of Japan
A group image drama set at the end of the war depicting the unknown struggle of Japanese people who ...
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The Last Blossom
An elderly inmate serving a life sentence awaits a lonely death in his solitary cell—until a voice c...
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Castle of Sand
This drama adaptation follows the original work's historical setting and is told from Yoshimura's pe...
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A Melody for My Father
Kaoru Kobayashi stars as a man tasked with saving a failing company. Instead of harsh tactics, he li...
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