Birthday: Jan 01, 1956
Place of Birth: Isahaya, Japan

Koji Yakusho

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

Movie	Cast	Year
Babel	Yasujiro Wataya	2006
The Great Department Store Robbery		1987
The Eel	Takuro Yamashita	1997
Shall We Dance?	Shohei Sugiyama	1996
Tampopo	White Suit Man	1985
Sleeping Man	Kamimura	1996
Doppelganger	Michio Hayasaki	2003
Bounce Ko Gals	Oshima	1997
Pulse	Ship Captain	2001
Séance	Sato	2000
Gelatin Silver, Love	Client	2009
Cure	Kenichi Takabe	1997
Eureka	Makoto Sawai	2000
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	Masami Shin'ichi	2005
University of Laughs	Mutsuo Sakisaka	2004
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge	Yosuke Sasano	2001
Hunter in the Dark	Kuwano	1979
Retribution	Noboru Yoshioka	2007
Paco and the Magical Book	Onuki	2008
Lost Paradise	Shoichiro Kuki	1997
The Last Ronin	Magozaemon Senoo	2010
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai	Kageyu	2011
13 Assassins	Shinzaemon Shimada	2010
The Woodsman and the Rain	Katsuhiko	2012
Suite Dreams	Heikichi Shindo	2006
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet	Isoroku Yamamoto	2011
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity	Morisaku Furuta	2009
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho		1988
The Terminal Trust	Shinzo Egi	2012
Aurora Borealis	Genzo	1990
The Law of Hell		1982
Perfect Days	Hirayama	2023
Yukon	Takayuki Iwabuchi	1998
The World of Kanako	Akikazu Fujishima	2014
The Kiyosu Conference	Katsuie Shibata	2013
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window	Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)	2023
Gratitude		2022
History of Jirocho Shimizu		1995
Toad's Oil	Takuro Yazawa	2009
The Lakeside Murder Case	Shunsuke Namiki	2004
Silk	Hara Jubei	2007
Família	Seiji Kamiya	2023
Twelve Months	Young soldier	1980
Tadon and Chikuwa		1998
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather		1982
Dora-heita	Koheita Mochizuki	2000
Kamikaze Taxi	Kazumasa Kantake	1995
I Just Didn't Do It	Masayoshi Arakawa	2007
License to Live	Fujimori	1999
Charisma	Goro Yabuike	1999
Chronicle of My Mother	Kosaku	2012
The Emperor in August	General Korechika Anami	2015
Tokyo Sonata	Robber	2008
The Choice of Hercules	Atsuyuki Sassa	2002
Whistleblower		2019
The Boy and the Beast	Kumatetsu (voice)	2015
Father of the Milky Way Railroad	Miyazawa Masajiro	2023
I Am Searching For Myself		2014
The Fir Trees Remain		1983
Ekiro	Det. Yobuno	2009
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis	Narrator	1970
Hakkenden	Bakin Takizawa	2024
Crimson Lotus		1993
Jubaku: Spellbound	Hiroshi Kitano	1999
Oh Lucy!	Komori / Tom	2017
The Third Murder	Misumi	2017
Dark Society in the East	Ryosuke Kano	1993
The Legend of Sayo		1982
A Samurai Chronicle	Toda	2014
Sekigahara	Tokugawa Ieyasu	2017
Mifune: The Last Samurai	Self - Actor	2016
Fireflies: River of Light	Mr. Takiguchi	2004
Argentine Hag	Satoru Wakui	2007
The Hunter and the Hunted	Detective Jin	2004
The Blood of Wolves	Shogo Ogami	2018
The Sin		2007
Mirai	Grandfather (voice)	2018
Eternal Monument	Ootaka	1982
Bonds	Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga	1998
Wings Over Everest	Jiang Yuesheng	2019
Walking My Life	Yukihiro Fujiyama	2007
Shabu		1996
Willful Murder	Journalist	1981
Under the Open Sky	Mikami Masao	2021
Memoirs of a Geisha	Nobu	2005
Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare		1994
Tokyo: Level One	Governor of Tokyo	2004
Belle	Suzu's Father (voice)	2021
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai	Kawai Tsugunosuke	2022
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood		2021
Megumi no Sekai		1990
Suzume Iro Doki		1970
Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope		2025
Keijitachi no Natsu		1999
People Without a Fort	Nagasaka Fumio	2004
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes	Self	2007
たけだしんげん	武田晴信	1991
Series	Cast	Year
顔に降りかかる雨		1970
「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−		1988
サハリンの薔薇		1991
Middle-aged Bachelors		1997
The Password is Courage		2000
宮本武蔵	Miyamoto Musashi	1984
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen		1990
Takeda Shingen	Takeda Shingen	1991
The Life of Bangaku	Ajigawa Bantake	2002
Hana no Ran		1994
Lethal Three		1987
Rikuoh	Koichi Miyazawa	2017
Golden Horse Awards	Self	1962
Kinagashi Bugyō		1981
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?		1981
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin		1983
水曜ドラマ宮本武蔵	宮本武蔵	1984
Chotchan	神谷容	1987
Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi		1993
Ties: A Miraculous Colt	Masayuki Matsushita	2017
THE DAYS	Masao Yoshida	2023
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story	嘉納治五郎	2019
Vivant	Nogōn Beki	2023
New Yotsuya Kaidan		1987
Back of Father	Aoki Sosuke	2014
Pension Metsä	Tsuneki	2021
Tokugawa Ieyasu	Oda Nobunaga	1983

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