Koji Yakusho
January 1, 1956 (68 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope as
- 2024 · Hakkenden as Bakin Takizawa
- 2023 · Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
- 2023 · Perfect Days as Hirayama
- 2023 · Vivant as Nogōn Beki
- 2023 · THE DAYS as Masao Yoshida
- 2023 · Father of the Milky Way Railroad as Miyazawa Masajiro
- 2023 · Família as Seiji Kamiya
- 2022 · The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai as Kawai Tsugunosuke
- 2022 · Gratitude as
- 2021 · Belle as Suzu's Father (voice)
- 2021 · The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood as
- 2021 · Under the Open Sky as Mikami Masao
- 2021 · Pension Metsä as Tsuneki
- 2019 · Wings Over Everest as Jiang Yuesheng
- 2019 · Whistleblower as
- 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 · Rikuoh as Koichi Miyazawa
- 2017 · The Third Murder as Misumi
- 2017 · Sekigahara as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 2017 · Ties: A Miraculous Colt as Masayuki Matsushita
- 2017 · Oh Lucy! as Komori / Tom
- 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 · A Samurai Chronicle as Toda
- 2014 · Back of Father as Aoki Sosuke
- 2014 · The World of Kanako as Akikazu Fujishima
- 2014 · I Am Searching For Myself as
- 2013 · The Kiyosu Conference as Katsuie Shibata
- 2012 · The Terminal Trust as Shinzo Egi
- 2012 · Chronicle of My Mother as Kosaku
- 2012 · The Woodsman and the Rain as Katsuhiko
- 2011 · Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Isoroku Yamamoto
- 2011 · Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai as Kageyu
- 2010 · The Last Ronin as Magozaemon Senoo
- 2010 · 13 Assassins as Shinzaemon Shimada
- 2009 · The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Morisaku Furuta
- 2009 · Toad's Oil as Takuro Yazawa
- 2009 · Ekiro as Det. Yobuno
- 2009 · Gelatin Silver, Love as Client
- 2008 · Tokyo Sonata as Robber
- 2008 · Paco and the Magical Book as Onuki
- 2007 · Walking My Life as Yukihiro Fujiyama
- 2007 · The Sin as
- 2007 · Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- 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
- 2005 · Memoirs of a Geisha as Nobu
- 2005 · Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean as Masami Shin'ichi
- 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 · Warm Water Under a Red Bridge as Yosuke Sasano
- 2001 · Pulse as Ship Captain
- 2000 · Séance as Sato
- 2000 · The Password is Courage as
- 2000 · Eureka as Makoto Sawai
- 2000 · Dora-heita as Koheita Mochizuki
- 1999 · Charisma as Goro Yabuike
- 1999 · Jubaku: Spellbound as Hiroshi Kitano
- 1999 · Keijitachi no Natsu as
- 1999 · License to Live as Fujimori
- 1998 · Tadon and Chikuwa as
- 1998 · Bonds as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
- 1998 · Yukon as Takayuki Iwabuchi
- 1997 · Cure as Kenichi Takabe
- 1997 · Bounce Ko Gals as Oshima
- 1997 · Middle-aged Bachelors as
- 1997 · The Eel as Takuro Yamashita
- 1997 · Lost Paradise as Shoichiro Kuki
- 1996 · Shabu as
- 1996 · Sleeping Man as Kamimura
- 1996 · Shall We Dance? as Shohei Sugiyama
- 1995 · Kamikaze Taxi as Kazumasa Kantake
- 1995 · History of Jirocho Shimizu as
- 1994 · Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare as
- 1994 · Hana no Ran as
- 1993 · Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi as
- 1993 · Dark Society in the East as Ryosuke Kano
- 1993 · Crimson Lotus as
- 1991 · サハリンの薔薇 as
- 1991 · Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen
- 1990 · Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen as
- 1990 · Aurora Borealis as Genzo
- 1990 · Megumi no Sekai as
- 1988 · Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho as
- 1988 · 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より− as
- 1987 · The Great Department Store Robbery as
- 1987 · Lethal Three as
- 1987 · New Yotsuya Kaidan as
- 1987 · Chotchan as 神谷容
- 1985 · Tampopo as White Suit Man
- 1984 · 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 as 宮本武蔵
- 1984 · 宮本武蔵 as Miyamoto Musashi
- 1983 · Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin as
- 1983 · The Fir Trees Remain as
- 1983 · Tokugawa Ieyasu as Oda Nobunaga
- 1982 · The Legend of Sayo as
- 1982 · The Law of Hell as
- 1982 · Eternal Monument as Ootaka
- 1982 · Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather as
- 1981 · Willful Murder as Journalist
- 1981 · Kinagashi Bugyō as
- 1981 · The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die? as
- 1980 · Twelve Months as Young soldier
- 1979 · Hunter in the Dark as Kuwano
- 1962 · Golden Horse Awards as Self
- Future · 顔に降りかかる雨 as
- Future · Suzume Iro Doki as
- Future · Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis as Narrator