Koji Yakusho
Born: 1956-01-01 in Isahaya, Japan
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
2024
- Hakkenden as Bakin Takizawa
2023
- Vivant as Nogōn Beki
- Perfect Days as Hirayama
- THE DAYS as Masao Yoshida
- Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
- Father of the Milky Way Railroad as Miyazawa Masajiro
- Família as Seiji Kamiya
2022
- The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai as Kawai Tsugunosuke
- Gratitude
2021
- Belle as Suzu's Father (voice)
- Matrilineal Family as Kazo Yajima
- Under the Open Sky as Mikami Masao
- Pension Metsä as Tsuneki
- The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2019
- Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story as 嘉納治五郎
- Whistleblower
- Wings Over Everest as Jiang Yuesheng
2018
- Mirai as Grandfather (voice)
- The Blood of Wolves as Shogo Ogami
- Oh Lucy! as Takeshi Komori / Tom
2017
- Rikuoh as Koichi Miyazawa
- Sekigahara as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- The Third Murder as Takashi Misumi
- Ties: A Miraculous Colt as Masayuki Matsushita
2016
- Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
2015
- The Boy and the Beast as Kumatetsu (voice)
- The Emperor in August as General Korechika Anami
2014
- The World of Kanako as Akikazu Fujishima
- Back of Father as Aoki Sosuke
- I Am Searching For Myself
- A Samurai Chronicle as Toda
2013
- The Kiyosu Conference as Katsuie Shibata
2012
- The Woodsman and the Rain as Katsuhiko
- Chronicle of My Mother as Kosaku
- The Terminal Trust as Shinzo Egi
2011
- Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai as Kageyu
- Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Isoroku Yamamoto
- Early Autumn
2010
- 13 Assassins as Shinzaemon Shimada
- The Last Ronin as Magozaemon Senoo
2009
- The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Morisaku Furuta
- Gelatin Silver, Love as Client
- Toad's Oil as Takuro Yazawa
- Ekiro as Det. Yobuno
2008
- Tokyo Sonata as Robber
- Paco and the Magical Book as Onuki
2007
- Silk as Hara Jubei
- Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- I Just Didn't Do It as Masayoshi Arakawa
- Retribution as Noboru Yoshioka
- Walking My Life as Yukihiro Fujiyama
- The Sin
- Argentine Hag as Satoru Wakui
2006
- Babel as Yasujiro Wataya
- Suite Dreams as Heikichi Shindo
2005
- Memoirs of a Geisha as Nobu
- Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean as Masami Shin'ichi
- The Lakeside Murder Case as Shunsuke Namiki
2004
- Fireflies: River of Light as Mr. Takiguchi
- Séance as Sato
- University of Laughs as Mutsuo Sakisaka
- Tokyo: Level One as Governor of Tokyo
- The Hunter and the Hunted as Detective Jin
- People Without a Fort as Nagasaka Fumio
2003
- Doppelgänger as Michio Hayasaki
2002
- The Life of Bangaku as Ajigawa Bantake
- The Choice of Hercules as Atsuyuki Sassa
2001
- Pulse as Ship Captain
- Eureka as Makoto Sawai
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge as Yosuke Sasano
2000
- The Password is Courage
- Dora-heita as Koheita Mochizuki
1999
- Charisma as Goro Yabuike
- License to Live as Fujimori
- Jubaku: Spellbound as Hiroshi Kitano
- Keijitachi no Natsu
- Making Of Charisma as Self
1998
- Tadon and Chikuwa
- Bonds as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
- Yukon as Takayuki Iwabuchi
1997
- Cure as Kenichi Takabe
- Lost Paradise as Shoichiro Kuki
- The Eel as Takuro Yamashita
- Bounce Ko Gals as Oshima
- Middle-aged Bachelors
1996
- Shall We Dance? as Shohei Sugiyama
- Sleeping Man as Kamimura
- Shabu
1995
- Kamikaze Taxi as Kazumasa Kantake
- History of Jirocho Shimizu
1993
- Dark Society in the East as Ryosuke Kano
- Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
- Crimson Lotus
1992
1991
- Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen
- Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen
- サハリンの薔薇
1988
- Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho as Naoto Sekiya
- 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−
1986
- Inochi as Naohiko Hamamura
1985
- Tampopo as White Suit Man
1984
- 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 as 宮本武蔵
- 宮本武蔵 as Miyamoto Musashi
- The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1983
- Tokugawa Ieyasu as Oda Nobunaga
- Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
- The Fir Trees Remain
1982
- Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather as Kondo
- Eternal Monument as Ootaka
- The Legend of Sayo as Hatsutaro (Sayo's brother)
- The Law of Hell as Genzô
1981
1980
- Twelve Months as Young soldier (voice)
1979
- Hunter in the Dark as Kuwano
1962
- Golden Horse Awards as Self