Koji Yakusho
Personal Info
Known 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
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
as Narrator
(2025)
(2025)
(2024)
Hakkenden
as Bakin Takizawa
(2023)
Perfect Days
as Hirayama
(2023)
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
(2023)
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
as Miyazawa Masajiro
(2023)
Família
as Seiji Kamiya
(2022)
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
as Kawai Tsugunosuke
(2022)
(2021)
Belle
as Suzu's Father (voice)
(2021)
Under the Open Sky
as Mikami Masao
(2021)
(2019)
(2019)
Wings Over Everest
as Jiang Yuesheng
(2018)
Mirai
as Grandfather (voice)
(2018)
The Blood of Wolves
as Shogo Ogami
(2018)
Oh Lucy!
as Takeshi Komori / Tom
(2017)
Sekigahara
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
(2017)
The Third Murder
as Takashi Misumi
(2016)
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actor
(2015)
The Boy and the Beast
as Kumatetsu (voice)
(2015)
The Emperor in August
as General Korechika Anami
(2014)
The World of Kanako
as Akikazu Fujishima
(2014)
A Samurai Chronicle
as Toda
(2014)
(2013)
The Kiyosu Conference
as Katsuie Shibata
(2012)
The Terminal Trust
as Shinzo Egi
(2012)
The Woodsman and the Rain
as Katsuhiko
(2012)
Chronicle of My Mother
as Kosaku
(2011)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
as Kageyu
(2011)
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as Isoroku Yamamoto
(2011)
(2010)
13 Assassins
as Shinzaemon Shimada
(2010)
The Last Ronin
as Magozaemon Senoo
(2009)
Gelatin Silver, Love
as Client
(2009)
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
as Morisaku Furuta
(2009)
Ekiro
as Det. Yobuno
(2009)
Toad's Oil
as Takuro Yazawa
(2008)
Tokyo Sonata
as Robber
(2008)
Paco and the Magical Book
as Onuki
(2007)
Retribution
as Noboru Yoshioka
(2007)
I Just Didn't Do It
as Masayoshi Arakawa
(2007)
Walking My Life
as Yukihiro Fujiyama
(2007)
Silk
as Hara Jubei
(2007)
(2007)
Argentine Hag
as Satoru Wakui
(2007)
(2006)
Babel
as Yasujiro Wataya
(2006)
Suite Dreams
as Heikichi Shindo
(2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Nobu
(2005)
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
as Masami Shin'ichi
(2004)
The Lakeside Murder Case
as Shunsuke Namiki
(2004)
University of Laughs
as Mutsuo Sakisaka
(2004)
Tokyo: Level One
as Governor of Tokyo
(2004)
The Hunter and the Hunted
as Detective Jin
(2004)
People Without a Fort
as Nagasaka Fumio
(2004)
Fireflies: River of Light
as Mr. Takiguchi
(2003)
Doppelganger
as Michio Hayasaki
(2002)
The Choice of Hercules
as Atsuyuki Sassa
(2001)
Pulse
as Ship Captain
(2001)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
as Yosuke Sasano
(2000)
Séance
as Sato
(2000)
Dora-heita
as Koheita Mochizuki
(2000)
Eureka
as Makoto Sawai
(1999)
License to Live
as Fujimori
(1999)
Charisma
as Goro Yabuike
(1999)
(1999)
Jubaku: Spellbound
as Hiroshi Kitano
(1998)
Bonds
as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
(1998)
(1998)
Yukon
as Takayuki Iwabuchi
(1997)
Cure
as Kenichi Takabe
(1997)
The Eel
as Takuro Yamashita
(1997)
Lost Paradise
as Shoichiro Kuki
(1997)
Bounce Ko Gals
as Oshima
(1996)
Sleeping Man
as Kamimura
(1996)
Shall We Dance?
as Shohei Sugiyama
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
Kamikaze Taxi
as Kazumasa Kantake
(1994)
(1993)
(1993)
Dark Society in the East
as Ryosuke Kano
(1991)
Takeda Shingen
as 武田晴信
(1990)
Aurora Borealis
as Genzo
(1990)
(1988)
(1987)
(1985)
Tampopo
as White Suit Man
(1983)
(1982)
(1982)
Eternal Monument
as Ootaka
(1982)
(1982)
(1981)
Willful Murder
as Journalist
(1980)
Twelve Months
as Young soldier
(1979)
Hunter in the Dark
as Kuwano
Crew
(2023)
Perfect Days
Executive Producer
(2009)
Toad's Oil
Director