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Oboe no Nai Satsujin
2025
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Kaoru Kobayashi
Also known as 小林薫, 小林薰, こばやし かおる, کائورو کوبایاشی, 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.
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2025
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Sham
2025
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The Last Blossom
as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
2025
2024
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Fujiwara Yosuke
2024
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Promised Land
2024
2023
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Kubi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
T
The Boy and the Heron
London premiereas Noble Pelican (voice)
2023
B
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
2023
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Trapped Balloon
as Shigezo Kojima
2023
T
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
2023
2022
Y
Yes, I Can't Swim
as Professor Kamoshita
2022
W
Winter Rose
as Giichi Wataguchi
2022
D
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Shoichi Hoshino
2022
2021
W
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Hirotaro Yamane
2021
A
Arc
as Rihito
2021
2020
I
Independence of Japan
2020
2019
H
His Lost Name
as Tetsuro
2019
T
The Island of Cats
as Iwao
2019
2018
T
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
as Mamoru Fujita
2018
2017
K
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day
as Seiichi Morita
2017
A
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Nakagawa Akiko
2017
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Lear on the Shore
2017
M
Mukoku
as Shozo Yatabe
2017
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Takeo Matsuoka
2017
2016
B
Botchan
as Madonna’s father
2016
M
Midnight Diner 2
as Master
2016
F
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
as Jisaku Koka
2016
N
Natsumi's Firefly
as Sakakiyama
2016
2014
C
Climbing to Spring
as Isao Nagamine
2014
M
Midnight Diner
as Master
2014
2013
T
The Great Passage
as Kohei Araki
2013
T
The End of Summer
as Shingo Kosugi
2013
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
as Toshiharu Nakazato
2013
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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
as Masashi Sera
2013
2011
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The Egoists
as Kazuyuki Ninomiya
2011
2010
A
A Crowd of Three
2010
B
Boys on the Run
as Suzuki san
2010
H
Haru's Journey
as Kinoshita
2010
S
Sketches of Kaitan City
as Ryuzo Higa
2010
A
Abraxas
2010
2009
K
Kamui
as Hanbei
2009
2008
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Vacation
as Toru Hirai
2008
T
Then Summer Came
2008
D
Double Trouble
2008
2007
T
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Oton
2007
2006
T
Tales from Earthsea
as The King (voice)
2006
T
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
as Yasutada Kamiya
2006
2005
F
Female
as Old man
2005
A
A Melody for My Father
2005
2004
Q
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
as Mitsuru Watanabe
2004
2003
L
Like Asura
as Takao Satomi
2003
2002
G
Ghiblies: Episode 2
as Toshi-chan (Voice)
2002
T
Ten Dark Women
2002
1999
S
Secret
as Heisuke Sugita
1999
C
Coquille
as Tatsuya Urayama
1999
T
The Washing Machine
as Taiji Ogami
1999
T
The Black House
1999
L
Le Secret
as 杉田平介
1999
1997
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Princess Mononoke
as Jikobo (voice)
1997
1996
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The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996