Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

125

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-01-01 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Isahaya, Japan

Also Known As

橋本広司
Koji Hashimoto
Kôji Yakusho
Kouji Yakusho
Кодзі Якусьо
קוז'י יאקושו
کوجی یاکوشو

Koji Yakusho

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.

Known For

7.2%

Babel

Oct 26, 2006

7.7%

Memoirs of a Geisha

Dec 6, 2005

7.9%

The Boy and the Beast

Jul 11, 2015

7.7%

Perfect Days

Nov 10, 2023

7.3%

13 Assassins

Sep 9, 2010

7.2%

Mirai

Jun 16, 2018

7.7%

Belle

Jul 16, 2021

7.6%

Cure

Dec 27, 1997

6.7%

Pulse

Feb 3, 2001

7.9%

Tampopo

Nov 23, 1985

6.6%

The Third Murder

Sep 9, 2017

7.4%

Tokyo Sonata

Sep 27, 2008

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Acting

—		Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis as Narrator
—		Suzume Iro Doki
—		顔に降りかかる雨

2025		The Brightest Sun
2025		Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

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

2021		Belle as Suzu's Father (voice)
2021		The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021		Under the Open Sky as Mikami Masao
2021		Pension Metsä as Tsuneki

2019		Wings Over Everest as Jiang Yuesheng
2019		Whistleblower
2019		Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story as 嘉納治五郎

2018		Mirai as Grandfather (voice)
2018		The Blood of Wolves as Shogo Ogami
2018		Oh Lucy! as Takeshi Komori / Tom

2017		Rikuoh as Koichi Miyazawa
2017		The Third Murder as Misumi
2017		Sekigahara as Tokugawa Ieyasu
2017		Ties: A Miraculous Colt as Masayuki Matsushita

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

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
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
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
1999		License to Live as Fujimori

1998		Tadon and Chikuwa
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
1997		The Eel as Takuro Yamashita
1997		Lost Paradise as Shoichiro Kuki

1996		Shabu
1996		Sleeping Man as Kamimura
1996		Shall We Dance? as Shohei Sugiyama

1995		Kamikaze Taxi as Kazumasa Kantake
1995		History of Jirocho Shimizu

1994		Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
1994		Hana no Ran

1993		Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
1993		Dark Society in the East as Ryosuke Kano
1993		Crimson Lotus

1991		サハリンの薔薇
1991		Takeda Shingen as 武田晴信
1991		Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen

1990		Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990		Aurora Borealis as Genzo
1990		Megumi no Sekai

1988		Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988		「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−

1987		The Great Department Store Robbery
1987		Lethal Three
1987		New Yotsuya Kaidan
1987		Chotchan as 神谷容

1985

Tampopo as White Suit Man

1984		宮本武蔵 as Miyamoto Musashi
1984		水曜ドラマ宮本武蔵 as 宮本武蔵

1983		The Fir Trees Remain
1983		Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1983		Tokugawa Ieyasu as Oda Nobunaga

1982		The Legend of Sayo
1982		The Law of Hell
1982		Eternal Monument as Ootaka
1982		Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

1981		Willful Murder as Journalist
1981		Kinagashi Bugyō
1981		The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?

1980

Twelve Months as Young soldier

1979

Hunter in the Dark as Kuwano

1962

Golden Horse Awards as Self

Directing

2009

Toad's Oil as Director

Production

2023

Perfect Days as Executive Producer