Koji Yakusho

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-01-01 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Isahaya, Japan

Koji Yakusho

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.

Acting

2006

Babel

as Yasujiro Wataya

1997

The Eel

as Takuro Yamashita

1996

Shall We Dance?

as Shohei Sugiyama

1985

Tampopo

as White Suit Man

1996

Sleeping Man

as Kamimura

2003

Doppelganger

as Michio Hayasaki

1997

2001

Pulse

as Ship Captain

2000

Séance

as Sato

1997

Cure

as Kenichi Takabe

2000

Eureka

as Makoto Sawai

2004

University of Laughs

as Mutsuo Sakisaka

2001

1979

2007

Retribution

as Noboru Yoshioka

1997

Lost Paradise

as Shoichiro Kuki

2010

The Last Ronin

as Magozaemon Senoo

2010

13 Assassins

as Shinzaemon Shimada

2006

Suite Dreams

as Heikichi Shindo

2012

The Terminal Trust

as Shinzo Egi

1990

2023

Perfect Days

as Hirayama

1998

Yukon

as Takayuki Iwabuchi

2014

The World of Kanako

as Akikazu Fujishima

2013

The Kiyosu Conference

as Katsuie Shibata

2023

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)

2009

Toad's Oil

as Takuro Yazawa

2004

The Lakeside Murder Case

as Shunsuke Namiki

2007

Silk

as Hara Jubei

2023

Família

as Seiji Kamiya

1980

Twelve Months

as Young soldier

2000

Dora-heita

as Koheita Mochizuki

1995

Kamikaze Taxi

as Kazumasa Kantake

1999

Charisma

as Goro Yabuike

2007

I Just Didn't Do It

as Masayoshi Arakawa

1999

License to Live

as Fujimori

2015

The Emperor in August

as General Korechika Anami

2008

Tokyo Sonata

as Robber

2002

The Choice of Hercules

as Atsuyuki Sassa

2015

The Boy and the Beast

as Kumatetsu (voice)

2023

2009

Ekiro

as Det. Yobuno

2024

Hakkenden

as Bakin Takizawa

1999

Jubaku: Spellbound

as Hiroshi Kitano

2018

Oh Lucy!

as Takeshi Komori / Tom

2017

The Third Murder

as Takashi Misumi

1993

2004

2017

Sekigahara

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

2016

2007

Argentine Hag

as Satoru Wakui

2004

2018

The Blood of Wolves

as Shogo Ogami

2018

Mirai

as Grandfather (voice)

1982

1998

Bonds

as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga

2019

Wings Over Everest

as Jiang Yuesheng

2007

Walking My Life

as Yukihiro Fujiyama

1996

1981

Willful Murder

as Journalist

2021

Under the Open Sky

as Mikami Masao

2004

Tokyo: Level One

as Governor of Tokyo

2021

Belle

as Suzu's Father (voice)

2022

2004

People Without a Fort

as Nagasaka Fumio

1991

Takeda Shingen

as 武田晴信

Production

2009

Toad's Oil

as Director

2023

Perfect Days

as Executive Producer

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