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Acting

Kaoru Kobayashi

Career: Active from 1977 to 2026, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 40
top three billing

Average score: 71/100

Highest rated: The Last Blossom
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 33 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Kaoru Kobayashi Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.0, average 4.8
Crime
2.0, average 3.6
Violence
2.9, average 4.1
Scare
1.5, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 10
Character-Driven 10
Japanese Drama 9
Character Study 5
Emotional Journey 4
Family Drama 4
Historical Drama 4
Japanese Cinema 4
Melancholy 4
Psychological Thriller 3
Coming-of-Age Story 3
Slice of Life 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

106

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

22 titles · average score 72

The Last Blossom

87

as Akutsu (1986) (voice)

1972 Fireflies on the Shore

TV show · as Taiei Tamashiro

The Tiger and Her Wings

TV show · as Hodaka Shigechika

THE DAYS

62

TV show · as Furuya

The Boy and the Heron

85

as Noble Pelican (voice)

Trapped Balloon

as Shigezo Kojima

Fixer

TV show · as Ichiro Suzaki

Worry Not, She's the Boss

TV show · as Yamagami Tatsuo

Yes, I Can't Swim

as Professor Kamoshita

Winter Rose

as Giichi Wataguchi

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

TV show · as Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

Solomon's Perjury

TV show · as Masao Tsuzaki

2010s

40 titles · average score 71

His Lost Name

as Tetsuro

The Great White Tower

TV show · as Mataichi Zaizen

Heaven

TV show · as Doizaki Gen

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

81

TV show · as Master

Midnight Diner 2

74

as Master

The Emperor's Cook

76

TV show

Midnight Diner

77

as Master

Villiany Ganbo

TV show · as Gen Koshimizu

Leaving on the 15th Spring

64

as Toshiharu Nakazato

The End of Summer

as Shingo Kosugi

The Marriage Counselor

TV show · as Syogo Yanagisawa

Haru's Journey

68

as Kinoshita

2000s

14 titles · average score 68

Midnight Diner

84

TV show · as Master

Kamui

50

as Hanbei

The Sun in Kurobe

TV show · as Kunpei Takiyama

Vacation

as Toru Hirai

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

75

as Oton

Tales from Earthsea

50

as The King (voice)

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

as Yasutada Kamiya

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

71

as Mitsuru Watanabe

Dr. Coto's Clinic

81

TV show · as 星野正一

Like Asura

68

as Takao Satomi

Ghiblies: Episode 2

69

as Toshi-chan (Voice)

The Private Detective Mike

TV show

1990s

11 titles · average score 70

Secret

68

as Heisuke Sugita

Coquille

as Tatsuya Urayama

The Washing Machine

as Taiji Ogami

Le Secret

as 杉田平介

Ten urara

TV show · as 松尾良治

Princess Mononoke

86

as Jikobo (voice)

TV show · as 桑田澄男

The Last U-Boat

55

as Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

The Tomb & the Divorce

as Yoshinori Ishino

Sunflower on the Hill

TV show · as Yuzuhara Kohei

Hong Kong Paradise

as Hachirou Ooishi

1980s

17 titles · average score 79

Untamagiru

as Giru

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

as Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

Twilight of the Cockroaches

68

as Saitô (voice)

For Business

as Miyabi Sakuramiya

And Then

81

as Tsunejiro Hiraoka

Paradise View

as Reishu Goya

Love Letter

as Tetsushi Kamiya

The Wangan Highway

as Nakamura

The Second Love

as Hideo Hyuga

The Dropout

as Miura

Hear the Wind Sing

as Me

Call from Darkness

as Tatsuo Tamura

1970s

2 titles · average score 75

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

as Eisuke Morimoto

Ballad of Orin

75

as Torazo