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Koji Yakusho
Actor, Producer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1956 (68 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2023 | Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window · as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice) |
| 2023 | Perfect Days · as Hirayama |
| 2023 | Vivant (TV Series) · as Nogōn Beki |
| 2023 | The Days (2023) (TV Series) · as Masao Yoshida |
| 2023 | Father of the Milky Way Railroad · as Miyazawa Masajiro |
| 2023 | Família · as Seiji Kamiya |
| 2021 | Belle · as Suzu's Father (voice) |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Pension Metsa (TV Series) · as Tsuneki |
| 2020 | The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai · as Kawai Tsugunosuke |
| 2020 | Under the Open Sky · as Mikami Masao |
| 2019 | Wings Over Everest · as Jiang Yuesheng |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Idaten (TV Series) · as 嘉納治五郎 |
| 2018 | Mirai · as Grandfather (voice) |
| 2018 | The Blood of Wolves · as Shogo Ogami |
| 2017 | Rikuoh (TV Series) · as Koichi Miyazawa |
| 2017 | The Third Murder · as Misumi |
| 2017 | Sekigahara · as Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| 2017 | 絆～走れ奇跡の子馬～ (TV Series) · as Masayuki Matsushita |
| 2017 | Oh Lucy! · as Komori / Tom |
| 2017 | The Supporting Actors (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 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 | The World of Kanako · as Akikazu Fujishima |
| 2013 | The Kiyosu Conference · as Katsuie Shibata |
| 2012 | The Terminal Trust · as Shinzo Egi |
| 2011 | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet · as Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 2011 | The Woodsman and the Rain · as Katsuhiko |
| 2011 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai · as Kageyu |
| 2011 | Chronicle of My Mother · as Kosaku |
| 2010 | The Last Ronin · as Magozaemon Senoo |
| 2010 | 13 Assassins · as Shinzaemon Shimada |
| 2010 | Wagaya no Rekishi (TV Series) · as Narration |
| 2009 | Mt. Tsurugidake · as Morisaku Furuta |
| 2009 | Toad's Oil · as Takuro Yazawa |
| 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 | Silk · as Hara Jubei |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Argentine Baba · as Satoru Wakui |
| 2006 | I Just Didn't Do It · as Masayoshi Arakawa |
| 2006 | Babel · as Yasujiro Wataya |
| 2006 | Retribution · as Noboru Yoshioka |
| 2006 | Suite Dreams · as Heikichi Shindo |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha · as Nobu |
| 2005 | Lorelei · as Masami Shin'ichi |
| 2004 | University of Laughs · as Mutsuo Sakisaka |
| 2004 | Tôkyô genpatsu · as Governor Of Tokyo |
| 2004 | Lakeside Murder Case · as Shunsuke Namiki |
| 2003 | Fireflies: River of Light · as Mr. Takiguchi |
| 2003 | Doppelganger · as Michio Hayasaki |
| 2002 | September 11 · as Villager (segment: Japan) |
| 2002 | Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken · as Atsuyuki Sassa |
| 2002 | The Life of Bangaku (TV Series) · as Ajigawa Bantake |
| 2001 | Warm Water Under a Red Bridge · as Yosuke Sasano |
| 2001 | Pulse · as Ship Captain |
| 2000 | Eureka · as Makoto Sawai |
| 2000 | Séance · as Sato |
| 2000 | I Went To · as Koheita Mochizuki |
| 1999 | Charisma · as Goro Yabuike |
| 1999 | Jubaku: Spellbound · as Hiroshi Kitano |
| 1998 | License to Live · as Fujimori |
| 1998 | Kizuna · as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga |
| 1997 | Cure · as Kenichi Takabe |
| 1997 | Bounce Ko Gals · as Oshima |
| 1997 | The Eel · as Takuro Yamashita |
| 1997 | Lost Paradise · as Shoichiro Kuki |
| 1996 | Sleeping Man · as Kamimura |
| 1996 | Shall We Dance? · as Shohei Sugiyama |
| 1995 | Kamikaze Taxi · as Kazumasa Kantake |
| 1990 | Takeda Shingen (1991) (TV Series) · as Takeda Shingen |
| 1990 | Pod severnym siyaniyem · as Genzo |
| 1987 | The Lethal Three! (TV Series) |
| 1985 | Tampopo · as White Suit Man |
| 1983 | The Fir Trees Remain · as Cast |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | Himeyuri no tô · as Ootaka |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | Willful Murder · as Journalist |
| 1981 | Magistrate of the Floating World · as Cast |
| 1980 | Twelve Months · as Young Soldier |
| 1979 | Hunter in the Dark · as Kuwano |