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Kaoru Kobayashi
- Title: Kaoru Kobayashi
- Popularity: 26.9
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1951-09-04
- Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
- Homepage: http://nico.co.jp/artist/kaorukobayashi/
- Also Known As: 小林薫, 小林薰, こばやし かおる
8.338 1997 HD
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,...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Youji Matsuda
7 2007 HD
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joe Odagiri
7.188 1984 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki
6.5 2006 HD
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Junichi Okada
6.1 2009 HD
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama
7 2008 HD
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
7 2004 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
5.192 2010 HD
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.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Kazunobu Mineta
6.867 1999 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ryoko Hirosue
6.5 2010 HD
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Eri Tokunaga
6.941 1985 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda
7.8 1999 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
7.164 2013 HD
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda
7.6 2006 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tomoyo Harada
6.947 1977 HD
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shima Iwashita
6.3 2013 HD
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...
Genre: Romance
Cast: Hikari Mitsushima
1 1986 HD
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Noritake Kinashi
5.4 1993 HD
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...
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Ulrich Mühe
5 1985 HD
Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
4.7 1989 HD
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
4.6 2011 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kengo Kora
5.6 2005 HD
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Nene Otsuka
7.2 2014 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama
5.4 2010 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mitsuki Tanimura
8 2016 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya
7.5 2014 HD
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
6.6 2013 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ayaka Miyoshi
7.9 2017 HD
Based on the true story of 4 member Japanese pop group "GreeeeN.” Jin is the producer of “GreeeeN” and his younger brother Hide is...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tori Matsuzaka
6.2 2017 HD
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...
Genre: Action
Cast: Go Ayano
5.7 1981 HD
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Asami Kobayashi
6 1981 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
7.231 2016 HD
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.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
6.5 1999 HD
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...
Genre: Horror
Cast: Seiyo Uchino
5.7 1988 HD
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...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Toru Nakamura
7.75 2016 HD
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,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Junichi Okada
6.2 2016 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kasumi Arimura
3 2017 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sho Sakurai
1 2010 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Manami Honjo
6 2017 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai
6 1982 HD
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...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Ken Ogata
6.776 2017 HD
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...
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Ryosuke Yamada
1 1993 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
1 1993 HD
Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
6 1979 HD
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,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Aiko Morishita
6.1 1987 HD
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....
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
5.6 2019 HD
Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
1 1984 HD
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Masao Kusakari
6.875 2019 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shinosuke Tatekawa
1 2013 HD
Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka...
Genre:
Cast: Eita Nagayama
7.9 1985 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara
1 1990 HD
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,...
Genre: Action
Cast: Yuki Saito
5.5 1983 HD
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....
Genre: Drama
Cast: Reiko Ōhara
4 2008 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joe Odagiri
1 1994 HD
A five-part comedy and horror anthology
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Hitomi Kuroki
5 1976 HD
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Noboru Andō
6 1991 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kanako Higuchi
7.4 2002 HD
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...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Masahiko Nishimura
7.734 2021 HD
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.
Genre: Romance
Cast: Masaki Suda
6 2021 HD
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...
Genre: Science Fiction
Cast: Kyoko Yoshine
8 2008 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
6.7 2003 HD
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Shinobu Otake
7 2018 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda
4.9 2010 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kengo Kora
6.2 2022 HD
Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hiroki Hasegawa
7 1988 HD
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Haruko Sagara
5 2022 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ryota Bando
1 1999 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui
1 2023 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Toko Miura
7.5 2022 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka
1 2018 HD
During turbulent economic times in Japan, Masahiko Washizu (Go Ayano) appears. He leads a foreign investment fund and he is criticized for being a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Go Ayano
6.6 2023 HD
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...
Genre: History
Cast: Takeshi Kitano
7.5 2023 HD
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...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Soma Santoki
7.7 2023 HD
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...
Genre: Action
Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa
5 2024 HD
An original story telling how Abe no Seimei became the most powerful sorcerer in the age before he became an Onmyoji.
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Kento Yamazaki
6 1996 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Masahiro Nakai
6 2023 HD
Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mayu Hotta
1 2024 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rairu Sugita
8.1 2014 HD
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
7.3 2014 HD
When Kanzaki Kaoru was young, her mother operated an Okonomiyaki restaurant. However, in just a day, her entire life as she knew it turned upside...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tomokazu Miura
1 2009 HD
Shingo Katori stars as Kuramatsu, a manager- foreman for Kumagaya Construction. In order to solve an acute energy shortage in the Kansai region,...
Genre:
Cast: Kyoko Fukada
8.2 2012 HD
Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mari Natsuki
8.5 2011 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shingo Katori
1 2017 HD
Shin'ichi Sakurai is married to Kanako and they have a daughter named Kaori. Both, Shinichi and Kanako received only a middle-school-level education....
Genre: Family
Cast: Sadawo Abe
6.333 2017 HD
An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Yukie Nakama
6 2018 HD
A comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves all living creatures. Once he starts thinking about...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Kana Kita
6.4 2015 HD
Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi) was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sota Fukushi
7.3 2013 HD
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hikari Mitsushima
8.3 2006 HD
After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka
7.7 2019 HD
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
8 2020 HD
Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Yuriko Yoshitaka
1 2013 HD
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Kazue Fukiishi
5 2015 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
7.2 2021 HD
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Emi Wakui
6.5 2019 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Junichi Okada
1 1982 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Yamauchi Masato
8.3 2020 HD
A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively. Older one (Ichiro) is very serious...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kyoko Yoshine
1 2019 HD
While political journalist Naoki Matsuoka is working his way up to the "top league," a small circle of privileged journalists with special access to...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tetsuji Tamayama
7 2011 HD
On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki
8 2014 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Lily Franky
1 2013 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Eita Nagayama
8.4 2002 HD
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase
6.75 2021 HD
On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Moka Kamishiraishi
1 2018 HD
During turbulent economic times in Japan, Masahiko Washizu leads a foreign investment fund and is criticized for being a vulture. He tries to buy a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Go Ayano
6 1997 HD
Genre:
Cast: Kiichi Nakai
1 1998 HD
This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Risa Sudou
8.087 2016 HD
Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kento Hayashi
7.725 2023 HD
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Koji Yakusho
7.3 2023 HD
Genre: Crime
Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa
1 2010 HD
Genre:
Cast: Hiroki Narimiya
7.5 2023 HD
Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Eiko Koike
1 1988 HD
Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi
8 2024 HD
In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko (Ito Sairi), gains nationwide...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sairi Ito
6 2005 HD
Genre:
Cast: Masahiro Nakai
8.5 2011 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shingo Katori