
Highest rated as cast or director
Midnight Diner
2009 · 3 Seasons
The Emperor's Cook
2015 · 1 Season
Midnight Diner
2014
THE DAYS
2023 · 1 Season
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.
Acted in 124
2020s
- 2026
- 2025
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
Taiei Tamashiro · 5 episodes
憶えのない殺人
佐治英雄 · 2 episodes
Oboe no Nai Satsujin
Movie
- 2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Tsuruichi Senkawa · 1 episode
Promised Land
Movie
- 2023
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Yamagami Tatsuo · 10 episodes
Trapped Balloon
Shigezo Kojima
- 2022
Winter Rose
Giichi Wataguchi
- 2021
Arc
Rihito
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father] · 41 episodes
- 2020
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Kotaki Reiji · 1 episode
2010s
- 2019
Top League
TV
His Lost Name
Tetsuro
- 2018
Hagetaka
Ryosuke Iijima · 8 episodes
- 2017
Grade A Reversal
TV
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Nakagawa Akiko
- 2016
Botchan
Madonna’s father
- 2015
Godan
Takao Anjo · 6 episodes
- 2014
Climbing to Spring
Isao Nagamine
Hello Life from 55
TV
Villiany Ganbo
Gen Koshimizu · 11 episodes
- 2013
Trembling Cow
TV
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Masashi Sera
Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
TV
- 2011
The Castle of Sand
TV
- 2010
Sketches of Kaitan City
Ryuzo Higa
Abraxas
Movie
A Crowd of Three
Movie
Haru's Journey
Kinoshita
Boys on the Run
Suzuki san
2000s
- 2009
News Sokuho wa Nagareta
TV
- 2008
Vacation
Toru Hirai
Double Trouble
Movie
- 2007
- 2006
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Yasutada Kamiya
- 2005
A Melody for My Father
Movie
Female
Old man
- 2004
- 2003
Like Asura
Takao Satomi
- 2002
Ten Dark Women
Movie
Ghiblies: Episode 2
Toshi-chan (Voice)
1990s
- 1999
Le Secret
杉田平介
The Washing Machine
Taiji Ogami
Coquille
Tatsuya Urayama
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
Movie
- 1994
Uneasy Encounters
Movie
- 1993
Chibusa
Movie
The Tomb & the Divorce
Yoshinori Ishino
Sunflower on the Hill
Yuzuhara Kohei · 12 episodes
The Last U-Boat
Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän
- 1991
Shimanto River
Movie
- 1990
Hong Kong Paradise
Hachirou Ooishi
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
Love and Action in Osaka
Movie
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)
- 1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Saitô (voice)
Iki no Iiyatsu
TV
- 1986
For Business
Miyabi Sakuramiya
- 1985
Love Letter
Tetsushi Kamiya
Paradise View
Reishu Goya
- 1984
The Funeral
Inose
The Wangan Highway
Nakamura
- 1983
ふぞろいの林檎たち
仲手川 耕一 · 13 episodes
- 1982
- 1981
Hear the Wind Sing
Me
1970s
- 1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eisuke Morimoto
- 1977
- 1976
The Sea of Genkai
Movie
Created 1
2010s
- 2011





