Acting
Koji Yakusho
Born 1956-01-01
Isahaya, Japan
Department: Acting
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
Prominent works featuring Koji Yakusho
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Babel
2006
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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
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Perfect Days
2023
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The Boy and the Beast
2015
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13 Assassins
2010
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Belle
2021
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Mirai
2018
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Cure
1997
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Pulse
2001
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Tampopo
1985
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (139 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? | Gen Takasegawa | TV Series | 2026 |
 | Children Untold | Jinbe Yamai / Jinbei | Movie | 2026 |
 | The Brightest Sun | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | Scarlet | Claudius (voice) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2025 |
 | Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende | Self | Movie | 2025 |
 | Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2025 |
 | Hakkenden | Bakin Takizawa | Movie | 2024 |
 | Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window | Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice) | Movie | 2023 |
 | Perfect Days | Hirayama | Movie | 2023 |
| Perfect Days | Executive Producer | Movie | 2023 |
 | Vivant | Nogōn Beki | TV Series | 2023 |
 | THE DAYS | Masao Yoshida | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Father of the Milky Way Railroad | Miyazawa Masajiro | Movie | 2023 |
 | Família | Seiji Kamiya | Movie | 2023 |
 | The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai | Kawai Tsugunosuke | Movie | 2022 |
 | Gratitude | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2022 |
 | Matrilineal Family | Kazo Yajima | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Belle | Suzu's Father (voice) | Movie | 2021 |
 | The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2021 |
 | Under the Open Sky | Mikami Masao | Movie | 2021 |
 | Pension Metsä | Tsuneki | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Wings Over Everest | Jiang Yuesheng | Movie | 2019 |
 | Whistleblower | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2019 |
 | Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story | 嘉納治五郎 | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Mirai | Grandfather (voice) | Movie | 2018 |
 | The Blood of Wolves | Shogo Ogami | Movie | 2018 |
 | Oh Lucy! | Takeshi Komori / Tom | Movie | 2018 |
 | Rikuoh | Koichi Miyazawa | TV Series | 2017 |
 | The Third Murder | Takashi Misumi | Movie | 2017 |
 | Sekigahara | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Movie | 2017 |
 | Ties: A Miraculous Colt | Masayuki Matsushita | TV Series | 2017 |
 | Mifune: The Last Samurai | Self - Actor | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Emperor in August | General Korechika Anami | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Boy and the Beast | Kumatetsu (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | A Samurai Chronicle | Toda | Movie | 2014 |
 | Back of Father | Aoki Sosuke | TV Series | 2014 |
 | The World of Kanako | Akikazu Fujishima | Movie | 2014 |
 | I Am Searching For Myself | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Kiyosu Conference | Katsuie Shibata | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Terminal Trust | Shinzo Egi | Movie | 2012 |
 | Chronicle of My Mother | Kosaku | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Woodsman and the Rain | Katsuhiko | Movie | 2012 |
 | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Isoroku Yamamoto | Movie | 2011 |
 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | Kageyu | Movie | 2011 |
 | Early Autumn | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Last Ronin | Magozaemon Senoo | Movie | 2010 |
 | 13 Assassins | Shinzaemon Shimada | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity | Morisaku Furuta | Movie | 2009 |
 | Toad's Oil | Takuro Yazawa | Movie | 2009 |
| Toad's Oil | Director | Movie | 2009 |
 | Ekiro | Det. Yobuno | Movie | 2009 |
 | Gelatin Silver, Love | Client | Movie | 2009 |
 | Tokyo Sonata | Robber | Movie | 2008 |
 | Paco and the Magical Book | Onuki | Movie | 2008 |
 | Walking My Life | Yukihiro Fujiyama | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Sin | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2007 |
 | Common Ground: Under Construction Notes | Self | Movie | 2007 |
 | Silk | Hara Jubei | Movie | 2007 |
 | Argentine Hag | Satoru Wakui | Movie | 2007 |
 | Retribution | Noboru Yoshioka | Movie | 2007 |
 | I Just Didn't Do It | Masayoshi Arakawa | Movie | 2007 |
 | Babel | Yasujiro Wataya | Movie | 2006 |
 | Suite Dreams | Heikichi Shindo | Movie | 2006 |
 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Nobu | Movie | 2005 |
 | Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | Masami Shin'ichi | Movie | 2005 |
 | The Lakeside Murder Case | Shunsuke Namiki | Movie | 2005 |
 | University of Laughs | Mutsuo Sakisaka | Movie | 2004 |
 | People Without a Fort | Nagasaka Fumio | Movie | 2004 |
 | Fireflies: River of Light | Mr. Takiguchi | Movie | 2004 |
 | Séance | Sato | Movie | 2004 |
 | Tokyo: Level One | Governor of Tokyo | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Hunter and the Hunted | Detective Jin | Movie | 2004 |
 | Doppelgänger | Michio Hayasaki | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Choice of Hercules | Atsuyuki Sassa | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Life of Bangaku | Ajigawa Bantake | TV Series | 2002 |
 | Warm Water Under a Red Bridge | Yosuke Sasano | Movie | 2001 |
 | Pulse | Ship Captain | Movie | 2001 |
 | Eureka | Makoto Sawai | Movie | 2001 |
 | The Password is Courage | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Dora-heita | Koheita Mochizuki | Movie | 2000 |
 | Making Of Charisma | Self | Movie | 1999 |
 | Charisma | Goro Yabuike | Movie | 1999 |
 | Jubaku: Spellbound | Hiroshi Kitano | Movie | 1999 |
 | Keijitachi no Natsu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1999 |
 | License to Live | Fujimori | Movie | 1999 |
 | Tadon and Chikuwa | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1998 |
 | Bonds | Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga | Movie | 1998 |
 | Yukon | Takayuki Iwabuchi | Movie | 1998 |
 | Cure | Kenichi Takabe | Movie | 1997 |
 | Bounce Ko Gals | Oshima | Movie | 1997 |
 | Middle-aged Bachelors | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1997 |
 | The Eel | Takuro Yamashita | Movie | 1997 |
 | Lost Paradise | Shoichiro Kuki | Movie | 1997 |
 | Shabu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1996 |
 | Sleeping Man | Kamimura | Movie | 1996 |
 | Shall We Dance? | Shohei Sugiyama | Movie | 1996 |
 | Kamikaze Taxi | Kazumasa Kantake | Movie | 1995 |
 | History of Jirocho Shimizu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1995 |
 | Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1994 |
| 39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame" | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1994 | |
 | Hana no Ran | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Dark Society in the East | Ryosuke Kano | Movie | 1993 |
 | Crimson Lotus | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1993 |
 | Suzume Iro Doki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1992 |
 | サハリンの薔薇 | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1991 |
 | Takeda Shingen | Takeda Shingen | Movie | 1991 |
| Takeda Shingen | Takeda Shingen | TV Series | 1991 |
 | Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Aurora Borealis | Genzo | Movie | 1990 |
 | Megumi no Sekai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1990 |
 | Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho | Naoto Sekiya | Movie | 1988 |
| 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より− | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1988 | |
 | The Great Department Store Robbery | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1987 |
 | Lethal Three | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1987 |
 | New Yotsuya Kaidan | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1987 |
 | Chotchan | 神谷容 | TV Series | 1987 |
 | Inochi | Naohiko Hamamura | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Tampopo | White Suit Man | Movie | 1985 |
| 宮本武蔵 | Miyamoto Musashi | TV Series | 1984 | |
 | 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 | 宮本武蔵 | TV Series | 1984 |
 | The Fox Dancing in the Dusk | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Fir Trees Remain | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1983 |
 | Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1983 |
 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Oda Nobunaga | TV Series | 1983 |
 | The Legend of Sayo | Hatsutaro (Sayo's brother) | Movie | 1982 |
 | The Law of Hell | Genzô | Movie | 1982 |
 | Eternal Monument | Ootaka | Movie | 1982 |
 | Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather | Kondo | Movie | 1982 |
 | Willful Murder | Journalist | Movie | 1981 |
 | Magistrate of the Floating World | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1981 |
 | Kinagashi Bugyō | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1981 |
 | 空よ海よ息子たちよ | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1981 |
 | The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die? | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1981 |
 | Twelve Months | Young soldier (voice) | Movie | 1980 |
 | Hunter in the Dark | Kuwano | Movie | 1979 |
 | Golden Horse Awards | Self | TV Series | 1962 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis | Narrator | Movie | — |