Koji Yakusho

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1956-01-01 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Isahaya, Japan

Also Known As 橋本広司, Koji Hashimoto, Kôji Yakusho, Kouji Yakusho, Кодзі Якусьо, קוז'י יאקושו

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Hakkenden

as Bakin Takizawa

2023
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)

2023
Perfect Days

as Hirayama

2023
2023
Família

as Seiji Kamiya

2023
Vivant

as Nogōn Beki

2023
THE DAYS

as Masao Yoshida

2022
2021
Belle

as Suzu's Father (voice)

2021
Under the Open Sky

as Mikami Masao

2021
Pension Metsä

as Tsuneki

2019
Wings Over Everest

as Jiang Yuesheng

2019
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

as 嘉納治五郎

2018
Mirai

as Grandfather (voice)

2018
The Blood of Wolves

as Shogo Ogami

2017
2017
Sekigahara

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

2017
Oh Lucy!

as Komori / Tom

2017
Rikuoh

as Koichi Miyazawa

2017
Ties: A Miraculous Colt

as Masayuki Matsushita

2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai

as Self - Actor

2015
The Emperor in August

as General Korechika Anami

2015
The Boy and the Beast

as Kumatetsu (voice)

2014
The World of Kanako

as Akikazu Fujishima

2014
Back of Father

as Aoki Sosuke

2013
The Kiyosu Conference

as Katsuie Shibata

2012
The Terminal Trust

as Shinzo Egi

2012
2010
The Last Ronin

as Magozaemon Senoo

2010
13 Assassins

as Shinzaemon Shimada

2009
Toad's Oil

as Takuro Yazawa

2009
Ekiro

as Det. Yobuno

2009
2008
Tokyo Sonata

as Robber

2007
Walking My Life

as Yukihiro Fujiyama

2007
Silk

as Hara Jubei

2007
Argentine Hag

as Satoru Wakui

2007
Retribution

as Noboru Yoshioka

2007
I Just Didn't Do It

as Masayoshi Arakawa

2006
Babel

as Yasujiro Wataya

2006
Suite Dreams

as Heikichi Shindo

2004
University of Laughs

as Mutsuo Sakisaka

2004
People Without a Fort

as Nagasaka Fumio

2004
Fireflies: River of Light

as Mr. Takiguchi

2004
Tokyo: Level One

as Governor of Tokyo

2004
The Lakeside Murder Case

as Shunsuke Namiki

2004
The Hunter and the Hunted

as Detective Jin

2003
Doppelganger

as Michio Hayasaki

2002
The Choice of Hercules

as Atsuyuki Sassa

2002
The Life of Bangaku

as Ajigawa Bantake

2001
2001
Pulse

as Ship Captain

2000
Séance

as Sato

2000
Eureka

as Makoto Sawai

2000
Dora-heita

as Koheita Mochizuki

1999
Charisma

as Goro Yabuike

1999
Jubaku: Spellbound

as Hiroshi Kitano

1999
License to Live

as Fujimori

1998
Bonds

as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga

1998
Yukon

as Takayuki Iwabuchi

1997
Cure

as Kenichi Takabe

1997
Bounce Ko Gals

as Oshima

1997
The Eel

as Takuro Yamashita

1997
Lost Paradise

as Shoichiro Kuki

1996
1996
Sleeping Man

as Kamimura

1996
Shall We Dance?

as Shohei Sugiyama

1995
Kamikaze Taxi

as Kazumasa Kantake

1993
Dark Society in the East

as Ryosuke Kano

1991
Takeda Shingen

as Takeda Shingen

1990
1987
Chotchan

as 神谷容

1985
Tampopo

as White Suit Man

1984
宮本武蔵

as Miyamoto Musashi

1984
1983
Tokugawa Ieyasu

as Oda Nobunaga

1982
1981
Willful Murder

as Journalist

1980
Twelve Months

as Young soldier

1979

Director

2009
Toad's Oil

as Director

Producer

2023
Perfect Days

as Executive Producer