Koji Yakusho
Birthday: 1956-01-01
Place of Birth: Isahaya, Japan
Biography: Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Movies
Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
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The Eel
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbers...
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Shall We Dance?
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly sta...
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Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Sleeping Man
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care f...
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Doppelganger
Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing hi...
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Bounce Ko Gals
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in t...
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Pulse
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are de...
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Séance
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the...
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Gelatin Silver, Love
The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment ...
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Cure
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar b...
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Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, al...
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planne...
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University of Laughs
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedi...
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual pow...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Retribution
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since ...
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Paco and the Magical Book
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His on...
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Lost Paradise
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and find...
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The Last Ronin
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domai...
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fat...
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13 Assassins
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed sam...
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The Woodsman and the Rain
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for ...
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Suite Dreams
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional part...
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to att...
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan....
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The Terminal Trust
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, S...
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Aurora Borealis
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s....
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The Law of Hell
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner...
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Perfect Days
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, h...
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Yukon
Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a ...
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The World of Kanako
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a...
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The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shiba...
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during Wo...
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Gratitude
A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massag...
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History of Jirocho Shimizu
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family,...
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Toad's Oil
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one d...
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The Lakeside Murder Case
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare inten...
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Silk
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages...
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Família
One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy ...
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Twelve Months
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. On...
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Tadon and Chikuwa
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends hi...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, us...
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Kamikaze Taxi
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session...
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Charisma
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief momen...
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I Just Didn't Do It
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...
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License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years lat...
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Chronicle of My Mother
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novel...
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The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...
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Tokyo Sonata
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...
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The Choice of Hercules
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in ...
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The Boy and the Beast
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. O...
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
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I Am Searching For Myself
Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako"....
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The Fir Trees Remain
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...
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Ekiro
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno ...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
A Music Special episode broadcasted by NHK. This documentary looks back at the great achievements an...
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Hakkenden
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...
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Crimson Lotus
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she c...
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Jubaku: Spellbound
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to ...
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Oh Lucy!
A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English ...
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The Third Murder
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
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Dark Society in the East
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex Frenc...
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Fireflies: River of Light
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a ru...
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Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most promi...
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A Samurai Chronicle
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life....
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The Legend of Sayo
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back ...
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Argentine Hag
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only da...
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The Hunter and the Hunted
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take...
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The Blood of Wolves
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...
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The Sin
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the t...
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Mirai
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets fr...
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Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape ...
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Wings Over Everest
An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notor...
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Walking My Life
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovere...
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Shabu
Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he ...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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Under the Open Sky
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 y...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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Tokyo: Level One
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo....
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Belle
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the los...
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the le...
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Megumi no Sekai
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is h...
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Suzume Iro Doki
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and ...
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Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to sprea...
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Keijitachi no Natsu
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corr...
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People Without a Fort
After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicid...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th...
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Takeda Shingen
During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powe...
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The Brightest Sun
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investi...
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Early Autumn
As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine special...
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Scarlet
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." I...
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39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
Film adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Edogawa Rampo Award-winning novel Kao ni Furikakaru Ame....
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Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
At 80 years old, German director and photographer Wim Wenders talks about his unwavering joy in crea...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special
35th-anniversary Fuji TV special featuring three new “Tales of the Unusual” shorts: Anata Hakubutsuk...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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