Kaoru Kobayashi
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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 22.728 |
| Birthday | 1951-09-04 |
| Place of Birth | Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 小林薫, 小林薰, こばやし かおる, |
1997
Princess Mononoke
8.334/8076
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he...
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Princess Mononoke
2010
A Crowd of Three
4.9/4
A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as pa...
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A Crowd of Three
2007
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
6.9/14
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn...
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
1984
The Funeral
7.2/41
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three d...
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The Funeral
2006
Tales from Earthsea
6.5/1317
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people...
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Tales from Earthsea
2009
Kamui
6.089/45
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
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Kamui
2023
Kubi
6.904/26
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellio...
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Kubi
2008
Vacation
7/8
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
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Vacation
2004
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
7/34
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initi...
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Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
2010
Boys on the Run
5.2/13
A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick rival moves in on the beautiful co-worker he loves.
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Boys on the Run
1999
Secret
6.8/31
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into...
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Secret
2010
Haru's Journey
6.5/11
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
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Haru's Journey
2023
The Boy and the Heron
7.459/1925
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his ne...
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The Boy and the Heron
2022
Yes, I Can't Swim
6.2/5
Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and...
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Yes, I Can't Swim
1985
And Then
6.9/18
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and li...
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And Then
1999
Coquille
7.8/6
Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of h...
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Coquille
2013
The Great Passage
7.2/59
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage....
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The Great Passage
2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
7.6/5
In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes...
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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
1977
Ballad of Orin
7/20
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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Ballad of Orin
2013
The End of Summer
6.545/11
The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married old...
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The End of Summer
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
6.6/8
Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is...
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
2023
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
8/4
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who b...
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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
1986
For Business
0/0
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
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For Business
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
7/1
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shiz...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
2022
Winter Rose
5/2
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His...
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Winter Rose
1993
The Last U-Boat
5.4/9
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrive...
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The Last U-Boat
1989
Untama giru
4.7/3
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was return...
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Untama giru
1999
The Washing Machine
0/0
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works pa...
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The Washing Machine
2023
Trapped Balloon
0/0
A woman who has not seen her father for several years and does not have a good relationship with him. An unsociable man who lives near her father's ho...
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Trapped Balloon
2024
The Yin-Yang Master Zero
5.4/5
During the Heian period, Seimei Abe trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Hiromasa Minamoto arises to solve a strange phenome...
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The Yin-Yang Master Zero
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic
7.3/3
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the yo...
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Dr. Coto's Clinic
2011
The Egoists
4.6/5
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They be...
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The Egoists
2014
Climbing to Spring
7.2/5
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountai...
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Climbing to Spring
2005
Female
5.6/5
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki,...
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Female
2014
Midnight Diner
7.6/58
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend...
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Midnight Diner
1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
6/1
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Y...
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The Way of Osaka Financing 1
2010
Sketches of Kaitan City
5.4/5
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...
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Sketches of Kaitan City
2018
Hagetaka
0/0
During turbulent economic times in Japan, Masahiko Washizu (Go Ayano) appears. He leads a foreign investment fund and he is criticized for being a vul...
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Hagetaka
1985
Paradise View
5.3/3
Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly befor...
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Paradise View
2023
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
6/3
Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned Japane...
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Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2024
Promised Land
0/0
Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, but now more and more bear hunting is forbidden by t...
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Promised Land
2016
Botchan
8/2
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from hi...
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Botchan
2017
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
7.9/8
Based on the true story of 4 member Japanese pop group "GreeeeN.” Jin is the producer of “GreeeeN” and his younger brother Hide is the lead member for...
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Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
1981
Call from Darkness
5.7/6
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the d...
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Call from Darkness
1981
Hear the Wind Sing
6/4
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a...
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Hear the Wind Sing
2016
Midnight Diner 2
7.3/28
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
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Midnight Diner 2
1999
The Black House
6.3/11
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to kno...
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The Black House
1988
Love and Action in Osaka
5.7/3
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on...
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Love and Action in Osaka
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
7.8/4
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyu...
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Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2016
Natsumi's Firefly
6.2/6
Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her fat...
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Natsumi's Firefly
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
3/1
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his...
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An Emblem Dedicated To You
2010
Abraxas
10/1
Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems t...
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Abraxas
2017
Lear on the Shore
6/8
Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her h...
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Lear on the Shore
2017
Mukoku
6.2/4
Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. One...
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Mukoku
1982
The Dropout
6/2
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostit...
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The Dropout
2017
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
6.8/41
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into...
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
0/0
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male fr...
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The Tomb & the Divorce
1993
Chibusa
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).
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Chibusa
1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
6.5/2
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, t...
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Eighteen Years, to the Sea
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
6.1/9
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. I...
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
2019
His Lost Name
5.6/5
Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home, Tetsur...
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His Lost Name
1984
The Wangan Highway
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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The Wangan Highway
2019
The Island of Cats
6.9/8
Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the s...
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The Island of Cats
2013
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
0/0
Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka wo...
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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
1985
Love Letter
7.9/7
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...
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Love Letter
1990
Hong Kong Paradise
0/0
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide,...
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Hong Kong Paradise
1983
The Second Love
5.5/2
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazu...
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The Second Love
2008
Then Summer Came
4/1
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are...
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Then Summer Came
1994
Uneasy Encounters
0/0
A five-part comedy and horror anthology
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Uneasy Encounters
1976
The Sea of Genkai
5/4
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across th...
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The Sea of Genkai
1991
Shimanto River
6/3
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emo...
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Shimanto River
2002
Ghiblies: Episode 2
7.167/12
Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio n...
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Ghiblies: Episode 2
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
7.7/86
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.
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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
Arc
6.4/7
Set in the near future, Rina lives a wandering life and she meets Ema. Ema becomes a mentor for Rina and Rina begins to work for Ema. Her job is calle...
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Arc
2008
Double Trouble
8/1
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names and double-books the concert hall on New Year's Ev...
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Double Trouble
2003
Like Asura
6.8/12
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.
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Like Asura
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
7/5
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tou...
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