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Koji Yakusho

Born 1956-01-01

📍 Isahaya, Japan

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 127

The Brightest Sun

as Claudius (voice)

Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

as Bakin Takizawa

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)

as Masao Yoshida

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

as Miyazawa Masajiro

as Seiji Kamiya

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

as Kawai Tsugunosuke

as Suzu's Father (voice)

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

Under the Open Sky

as Mikami Masao

Wings Over Everest

as Jiang Yuesheng

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

as 嘉納治五郎

as Grandfather (voice)

The Blood of Wolves

as Takeshi Komori / Tom

as Koichi Miyazawa

The Third Murder

as Takashi Misumi

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

as Masayuki Matsushita

Mifune: The Last Samurai

as Self - Actor

The Emperor in August

as General Korechika Anami

The Boy and the Beast

as Kumatetsu (voice)

A Samurai Chronicle

The World of Kanako

as Akikazu Fujishima

I Am Searching For Myself

The Kiyosu Conference

as Katsuie Shibata

The Terminal Trust

Chronicle of My Mother

The Woodsman and the Rain

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

as Isoroku Yamamoto

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

as Magozaemon Senoo

as Shinzaemon Shimada

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

as Morisaku Furuta

as Takuro Yazawa

Gelatin Silver, Love

Paco and the Magical Book

Walking My Life

as Yukihiro Fujiyama

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

as Satoru Wakui

as Noboru Yoshioka

I Just Didn't Do It

as Masayoshi Arakawa

as Yasujiro Wataya

as Heikichi Shindo

Memoirs of a Geisha

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

as Masami Shin'ichi

The Lakeside Murder Case

as Shunsuke Namiki

University of Laughs

as Mutsuo Sakisaka

People Without a Fort

as Nagasaka Fumio

Fireflies: River of Light

as Mr. Takiguchi

Tokyo: Level One

as Governor of Tokyo

The Hunter and the Hunted

as Detective Jin

as Michio Hayasaki

The Choice of Hercules

as Atsuyuki Sassa

The Life of Bangaku

as Ajigawa Bantake

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

as Yosuke Sasano

as Ship Captain

as Makoto Sawai

The Password is Courage

as Koheita Mochizuki

as Goro Yabuike

Jubaku: Spellbound

as Hiroshi Kitano

Keijitachi no Natsu

License to Live

Tadon and Chikuwa

as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga

as Takayuki Iwabuchi

as Kenichi Takabe

Middle-aged Bachelors

as Takuro Yamashita

as Shoichiro Kuki

Shall We Dance?

as Shohei Sugiyama

as Kazumasa Kantake

History of Jirocho Shimizu

Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare

Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi

Dark Society in the East

as Ryosuke Kano

Suzume Iro Doki

サハリンの薔薇

as Takeda Shingen

as Takeda Shingen

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Aurora Borealis

Megumi no Sekai

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

The Great Department Store Robbery

New Yotsuya Kaidan

as Naohiko Hamamura

as White Suit Man

水曜ドラマ宮本武蔵

as 宮本武蔵

The Fir Trees Remain

Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin

Tokugawa Ieyasu

as Oda Nobunaga

The Legend of Sayo

The Law of Hell

Eternal Monument

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

Kinagashi Bugyō

The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?

as Young soldier (voice)

Hunter in the Dark

Golden Horse Awards

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis