Name
Koji Yakusho
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-01-01 (70 years old)
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.
Known For
Perfect Days
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Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured ...
Relase Date : 10 Nov, 2023
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to wo...
Relase Date : 6 Dec, 2005
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13 Assassins
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A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unem...
Relase Date : 25 Sep, 2010
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 2006 Babel as Yasujiro Wataya
- 1987 The Great Department Store Robbery
- 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 Doppelgänger as Michio Hayasaki
- 1997 Bounce Ko Gals as Oshima
- 2001 Pulse as Ship Captain
- 2004 Séance as Katsuhiko Sato
- 2009 Gelatin Silver, Love as Client
- 1997 Cure as Kenichi Takabe
- 2001 Eureka as Makoto Sawai
- 2005 Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean as Masami Shin'ichi
- 2004 University of Laughs as Mutsuo Sakisaka
- 2001 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge as Yosuke Sasano
- 1979 Hunter in the Dark as Kuwano
- 2007 Retribution as Noboru Yoshioka
- 2008 Paco and the Magical Book as Onuki
- 1997 Lost Paradise as Shoichiro Kuki
- 2010 The Last Ronin as Magozaemon Senoo
- 2011 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai as Kageyu
- 2010 13 Assassins as Shinzaemon Shimada
- 2012 The Woodsman and the Rain as Katsuhiko
- 2006 Suite Dreams as Heikichi Shindo
- 2011 Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Isoroku Yamamoto
- 2009 The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Morisaku Furuta
- 1988 Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho as Naoto Sekiya
- 2012 The Terminal Trust as Shinzo Egi
- 1990 Under Aurora as Genzo
- 1982 The Law of Hell as Genzô
- 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)
- 2022 Gratitude
- 1995 History of Jirocho Shimizu
- 2009 Toad's Oil as Takuro Yazawa
- 2005 The Lakeside Murder Case as Shunsuke Namiki
- 2007 Silk as Hara Jubei
- 2023 Família as Seiji Kamiya
- 1980 Twelve Months as Young soldier (voice)
- 1998 Tadon and Chikuwa
- 1982 Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather as Kondo
- 2000 Dora-heita as Koheita Mochizuki
- 1995 Kamikaze Taxi as Kazumasa Kantake
- 2007 I Just Didn't Do It as Masayoshi Arakawa
- 1999 License to Live as Fujimori
- 1999 Charisma as Goro Yabuike
- 2012 Chronicle of My Mother as Kosaku
- 2015 The Emperor in August as General Korechika Anami
- 2008 Tokyo Sonata as Robber
- 2002 The Choice of Hercules as Atsuyuki Sassa
- 2019 Whistleblower
- 2015 The Boy and the Beast as Kumatetsu (voice)
- 2023 Father of the Milky Way Railroad as Miyazawa Masajiro
- 2014 I Am Searching For Myself
- 1983 The Fir Trees Remain
- 2009 Ekiro as Det. Yobuno
- Soon Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis as Narrator
- 2024 Hakkenden as Bakin Takizawa
- 1993 Crimson Lotus
- 1999 Jubaku: Spellbound as Hiroshi Kitano
- 2018 Oh Lucy! as Takeshi Komori / Tom
- 2017 The Third Murder as Takashi Misumi
- 1993 Dark Society in the East as Ryosuke Kano
- 1982 The Legend of Sayo as Hatsutaro (Sayo's brother)
- 2014 A Samurai Chronicle as Toda
- 2017 Sekigahara as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 2016 Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
- 2004 Fireflies: River of Light as Mr. Takiguchi
- 2007 Argentine Hag as Satoru Wakui
- 2004 The Hunter and the Hunted as Detective Jin
- 2018 The Blood of Wolves as Shogo Ogami
- 2007 The Sin
- 2018 Mirai as Grandfather (voice)
- 1982 Eternal Monument as Ootaka
- 1998 Bonds as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
- 2019 Wings Over Everest as Jiang Yuesheng
- 2007 Walking My Life as Yukihiro Fujiyama
- 1996 Shabu
- 1981 Willful Murder as Journalist
- 2021 Under the Open Sky as Mikami Masao
- 2005 Memoirs of a Geisha as Nobu
- 1994 Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
- 2004 Tokyo: Level One as Governor of Tokyo
- 2021 Belle as Suzu's Father (voice)
- 2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai as Kawai Tsugunosuke
- 2021 The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
- 1990 Megumi no Sekai
- 1992 Suzume Iro Doki
- 2025 Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
- 1999 Keijitachi no Natsu
- 2004 People Without a Fort as Nagasaka Fumio
- 2007 Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- 1991 Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen
- 2026 The Brightest Sun
- 2011 Early Autumn
- 2025 Scarlet as Claudius (voice)
- 1994 39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
- 2025 Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende as Self
- 2025 Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special
- 1984 The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1981 Magistrate of the Floating World
- 2026 Children Untold as Jinbe Yamai / Jinbei
- 1999 Making Of Charisma as Self
- 1981 空よ海よ息子たちよ
- 1988 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より− ( 1 episode )
- 1991 サハリンの薔薇 ( 1 episode )
- 1997 Middle-aged Bachelors ( 13 episodes )
- 2000 The Password is Courage ( 11 episodes )
- 1984 宮本武蔵 ( 1 episode ) as Miyamoto Musashi
- 1990 Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen ( 5 episodes )
- 1991 Takeda Shingen ( 2 episodes ) as Takeda Shingen
- 2002 The Life of Bangaku ( 10 episodes ) as Ajigawa Bantake
- 1994 Hana no Ran ( 37 episodes )
- 1987 Lethal Three ( 101 episodes )
- 2017 Rikuoh ( 10 episodes ) as Koichi Miyazawa
- 1962 Golden Horse Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1981 Kinagashi Bugyō ( 1 episode )
- 1981 The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die? ( 8 episodes )
- 1983 Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin ( 1 episode )
- 1984 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 ( 45 episodes ) as 宮本武蔵
- 1987 Chotchan ( 156 episodes ) as 神谷容
- 1993 Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi ( 2 episodes )
- 2017 Ties: A Miraculous Colt ( 2 episodes ) as Masayuki Matsushita
- 2023 THE DAYS ( 8 episodes ) as Masao Yoshida
- 2019 Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story ( 47 episodes ) as 嘉納治五郎
- 2023 Vivant ( 10 episodes ) as Nogōn Beki
- 1987 New Yotsuya Kaidan ( 2 episodes )
- 2014 Back of Father ( 1 episode ) as Aoki Sosuke
- 2021 Pension Metsä ( 7 episodes ) as Tsuneki
- 1983 Tokugawa Ieyasu ( 50 episodes ) as Oda Nobunaga
- 2026 Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? ( 8 episodes ) as Gen Takasegawa / Yorozu Mantaro
- 1986 Inochi ( 50 episodes ) as Naohiko Hamamura
- 2021 Matrilineal Family ( 2 episodes ) as Kazo Yajima
