Kaoru Kobayashi: movies and TV shows
Kaoru Kobayashi has 126 credits in the archive: 84 films and 42 TV series, from 1976 to 2025. Highest rated: Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue (9.3/10).
Career timeline
1976 – 2025 · busiest year: 2023 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1972 Fireflies on the Shore | Taiei Tamashiro | TV | 8.3 | 73 |
| 2025 | Sham | Film | 7.6 | 73 | |
| 2025 | The Last Blossom | Akutsu (1986) (voice) | Film | 8.1 | 73 |
| 2025 | Oboe no Nai Satsujin | Film | 7.0 | 73 | |
| 2024 | The Tiger and Her Wings | 穗高重亲 | TV | 8.3 | 72 |
| 2024 | Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai | 仙川鶴一 | TV | 8.0 | 72 |
| 2024 | The Yin Yang Master Zero | Fujiwara Yosuke | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2024 | Promised Land | Film | 6.0 | 72 | |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron | Noble Pelican (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2023 | Fixer | Ichiro Suzaki | TV | 8.6 | 71 |
| 2023 | THE DAYS | Furuya | TV | 7.8 | 71 |
| 2023 | Worry Not, She's the Boss | Yamagami Tatsuo | TV | 7.5 | 71 |
| 2023 | Kubi | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Film | 6.9 | 71 |
| 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 | Film | 7.8 | 71 | |
| 2023 | Trapped Balloon | Shigezo Kojima | Film | — | 71 |
| 2023 | Tsugaru Lacquer Girl | Film | 6.0 | 71 | |
| 2022 | Dr. Coto's Clinic | Shoichi Hoshino | Film | 7.6 | 70 |
| 2022 | Winter Rose | Giichi Wataguchi | Film | 6.0 | 70 |
| 2022 | Yes, I Can't Swim | Professor Kamoshita | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2021 | Reach Beyond the Blue Sky | Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] | TV | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2021 | We Made a Beautiful Bouquet | Hirotaro Yamane | Film | 7.8 | 69 |
| 2021 | Solomon's Perjury | 津崎 正男 | TV | 7.7 | 69 |
| 2021 | Arc | Rihito | Film | 6.6 | 69 |
| 2020 | Off the Record | Noto Toru | TV | 7.8 | 68 |
| 2020 | Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku | Kotaki Reiji | TV | 8.8 | 68 |
| 2020 | Independence of Japan | Film | — | 68 | |
| 2019 | The Great White Tower | Mataichi Zaizen | TV | 6.5 | 67 |
| 2019 | Top League | TV | 8.2 | 67 | |
| 2019 | The Island of Cats | Iwao | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2019 | His Lost Name | Tetsuro | Film | 5.6 | 67 |
| 2018 | Miracles | Shun Samejima | TV | 7.1 | 66 |
| 2018 | Hagetaka | Ryosuke Iijima | TV | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2018 | The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan | Film | 7.0 | 66 | |
| 2017 | Grade A Reversal | TV | — | 65 | |
| 2017 | Heaven | Doizaki Gen | TV | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2017 | Kiseki: Sobito of That Day | Seiichi Morita | Film | 7.9 | 65 |
| 2017 | The Miracles of the Namiya General Store | Takeo Matsuoka | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2017 | An Emblem Dedicated To You | Nakagawa Akiko | Film | 4.5 | 65 |
| 2017 | Mukoku | Shozo Yatabe | Film | 6.8 | 65 |
| 2017 | Lear on the Shore | Film | 6.2 | 65 | |
| 2016 | Hibana: Spark | TV | 8.2 | 64 | |
| 2016 | Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories | Master | TV | 7.9 | 64 |
| 2016 | Midnight Diner 2 | Master | Film | 7.4 | 64 |
| 2016 | Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" | Jisaku Koka | Film | 8.1 | 64 |
| 2016 | Botchan | Madonna’s father | Film | 8.3 | 64 |
| 2016 | Natsumi's Firefly | Sakakiyama | Film | 6.1 | 64 |
| 2015 | The Emperor's Cook | TV | 7.4 | 63 | |
| 2015 | Koinaka | Hirotoshi Serizawa | TV | 6.6 | 63 |
| 2015 | Godan | TV | 5.0 | 63 | |
| 2014 | Villiany Ganbo | Gen Koshimizu | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2014 | Midnight Diner | Master | Film | 7.6 | 62 |
| 2014 | Climbing to Spring | Isao Nagamine | Film | 8.4 | 62 |
| 2014 | Hello Life from 55 | TV | 8.0 | 62 | |
| 2013 | Woman | Uesugi Kentaro | TV | 7.5 | 61 |
| 2013 | Trembling Cow | TV | 8.0 | 61 | |
| 2013 | The Great Passage | Kohei Araki | Film | 7.2 | 61 |
| 2013 | Kyokuhoku Rhapsody | Masashi Sera | Film | — | 61 |
| 2013 | The End of Summer | Shingo Kosugi | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 2013 | Leaving on the 15th Spring | Toshiharu Nakazato | Film | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2013 | Kyokuhoku Rhapsody | TV | — | 61 | |
| 2012 | Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 9.3 | 60 |
| 2011 | Carnation | Zensaku Ohara | TV | 8.1 | 59 |
| 2011 | The Castle of Sand | TV | 7.0 | 59 | |
| 2011 | The Marriage Counselor | Syogo Yanagisawa | TV | 8.5 | 59 |
| 2011 | The Marriage Counselor | TV | 8.5 | 59 | |
| 2011 | The Egoists | Kazuyuki Ninomiya | Film | 4.9 | 59 |
| 2010 | A Crowd of Three | Film | 4.9 | 58 | |
| 2010 | Sketches of Kaitan City | Ryuzo Higa | Film | 5.4 | 58 |
| 2010 | Abraxas | Film | 10.0 | 58 | |
| 2010 | Boys on the Run | Suzuki san | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 2010 | Haru's Journey | Kinoshita | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 2009 | Midnight Diner | Master | TV | 8.2 | 57 |
| 2009 | News Sokuho wa Nagareta | TV | — | 57 | |
| 2009 | The Sun in Kurobe | Kunpei Takiyama | TV | — | 57 |
| 2009 | Kamui | Hanbei | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2008 | Then Summer Came | Film | 4.0 | 56 | |
| 2008 | Vacation | Toru Hirai | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2008 | Double Trouble | Film | 8.0 | 56 | |
| 2007 | Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad | Oton | Film | 6.9 | 55 |
| 2006 | Tales from Earthsea | The King (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2006 | The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya | Yasutada Kamiya | Film | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2005 | Female | Old man | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 2005 | A Melody for My Father | Film | — | 53 | |
| 2004 | Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog | Mitsuru Watanabe | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 2003 | Dr. Coto's Clinic | 星野正一 | TV | 8.7 | 51 |
| 2003 | Like Asura | Takao Satomi | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2002 | The Private Detective Mike | TV | 8.5 | 50 | |
| 2002 | Ghiblies: Episode 2 | Toshi-chan (Voice) | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 2002 | Ten Dark Women | Film | — | 50 | |
| 1999 | Secret | Heisuke Sugita | Film | 6.9 | 47 |
| 1999 | Le Secret | 杉田平介 | Film | — | 47 |
| 1999 | The Black House | Film | 6.0 | 47 | |
| 1999 | Coquille | Tatsuya Urayama | Film | 7.6 | 47 |
| 1999 | The Washing Machine | Taiji Ogami | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1998 | Ten urara | 松尾良治 | TV | — | 46 |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke | Jikobo (voice) | Film | 8.3 | 45 |
| 1996 | ナニワ金融道 | 桑田 澄男 | TV | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1996 | The Way of Osaka Financing 1 | Film | 6.0 | 44 | |
| 1994 | Uneasy Encounters | Film | 8.0 | 42 | |
| 1993 | The Tomb & the Divorce | Yoshinori Ishino | Film | — | 41 |
| 1993 | Sunflower on the Hill | Yuzuhara Kohei | TV | — | 41 |
| 1993 | The Last U-Boat | Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän | Film | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1993 | Chibusa | Film | 9.0 | 41 | |
| 1991 | Shimanto River | Film | 6.8 | 39 | |
| 1990 | Hong Kong Paradise | Hachirou Ooishi | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1989 | Untamagiru | Giru | Film | 4.6 | 37 |
| 1988 | Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad | Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4) | Film | 8.0 | 36 |
| 1988 | Love and Action in Osaka | Film | 5.2 | 36 | |
| 1987 | Iki no Iiyatsu | TV | — | 35 | |
| 1987 | Twilight of the Cockroaches | Saitô (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 35 |
| 1986 | For Business | Miyabi Sakuramiya | Film | 8.0 | 34 |
| 1985 | Paradise View | Reishu Goya | Film | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1985 | And Then | Tsunejiro Hiraoka | Film | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1985 | Love Letter | Tetsushi Kamiya | Film | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1984 | The Funeral | Inose | Film | 7.1 | 32 |
| 1984 | The Wangan Highway | Nakamura | Film | 8.0 | 32 |
| 1984 | Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna! | Film | — | 32 | |
| 1983 | ふぞろいの林檎たち | 仲手川 耕一 | TV | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1983 | The Second Love | Hideo Hyuga | Film | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1982 | Toge no Gunzo | TV | — | 30 | |
| 1982 | The Dropout | Miura | Film | 6.4 | 30 |
| 1981 | Hear the Wind Sing | Me | Film | 6.6 | 29 |
| 1981 | Call from Darkness | Tatsuo Tamura | Film | 6.3 | 29 |
| 1979 | Eighteen Years, to the Sea | Eisuke Morimoto | Film | 6.7 | 27 |
| 1977 | Ballad of Orin | Torazo | Film | 7.1 | 25 |
| 1976 | The Sea of Genkai | Film | 5.8 | 24 |