Birthday
1956/01/01 (69 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Isahaya, Japan
Also know as
橋本広司, Koji Hashimoto, Kôji Yakusho, Kouji Yakusho, Кодзі Якусьо, קוז'י יאקושו, کوجی یاکوشو
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.
(2006) Babel
as Yasujiro Wataya
(1987) The Great Department Store Robbery
as ---
(1997) The Eel
as Takuro Yamashita
(1996) Shall We Dance?
as Shohei Sugiyama
(1985) Tampopo
as White Suit Man
(1996) Sleeping Man
as Kamimura
(2003) Doppelganger
as Michio Hayasaki
(1997) Bounce Ko Gals
as Oshima
(2001) Pulse
as Ship Captain
(2000) Séance
as Sato
(2009) Gelatin Silver, Love
as Client
(1997) Cure
as Kenichi Takabe
(2000) Eureka
as Makoto Sawai
(2005) Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
as Masami Shin'ichi
(2004) University of Laughs
as Mutsuo Sakisaka
(2001) Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
as Yosuke Sasano
(1979) Hunter in the Dark
as Kuwano
(2007) Retribution
as Noboru Yoshioka
(2008) Paco and the Magical Book
as Onuki
(1997) Lost Paradise
as Shoichiro Kuki
(2010) The Last Ronin
as Magozaemon Senoo
(2011) Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
as Kageyu
(2010) 13 Assassins
as Shinzaemon Shimada
(2012) The Woodsman and the Rain
as Katsuhiko
(2006) Suite Dreams
as Heikichi Shindo
(2011) Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as Isoroku Yamamoto
(2009) The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
as Morisaku Furuta
(1988) Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
as ---
(2012) The Terminal Trust
as Shinzo Egi
(1990) Aurora Borealis
as Genzo
(1982) The Law of Hell
as ---
(2023) Perfect Days
as Hirayama
(1998) Yukon
as Takayuki Iwabuchi
(2014) The World of Kanako
as Akikazu Fujishima
(2013) The Kiyosu Conference
as Katsuie Shibata
(2023) Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
(2022) Gratitude
as ---
(1995) History of Jirocho Shimizu
as ---
(2009) Toad's Oil
as Takuro Yazawa
(2004) The Lakeside Murder Case
as Shunsuke Namiki
(2007) Silk
as Hara Jubei
(2023) Família
as Seiji Kamiya
(1980) Twelve Months
as Young soldier
(1998) Tadon and Chikuwa
as ---
(1982) Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as ---
(2000) Dora-heita
as Koheita Mochizuki
(1995) Kamikaze Taxi
as Kazumasa Kantake
(1999) Charisma
as Goro Yabuike
(2007) I Just Didn't Do It
as Masayoshi Arakawa
(1999) License to Live
as Fujimori
(2012) Chronicle of My Mother
as Kosaku
(2015) The Emperor in August
as General Korechika Anami
(2008) Tokyo Sonata
as Robber
(2002) The Choice of Hercules
as Atsuyuki Sassa
(2019) Whistleblower
as ---
(2015) The Boy and the Beast
as Kumatetsu (voice)
(2023) Father of the Milky Way Railroad
as Miyazawa Masajiro
(2014) I Am Searching For Myself
as ---
(1983) The Fir Trees Remain
as ---
(2009) Ekiro
as Det. Yobuno
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
as Narrator
(2024) Hakkenden
as Bakin Takizawa
(1993) Crimson Lotus
as ---
(1999) Jubaku: Spellbound
as Hiroshi Kitano
(2017) Oh Lucy!
as Komori / Tom
(2017) The Third Murder
as Misumi
(1993) Dark Society in the East
as Ryosuke Kano
(2004) Fireflies: River of Light
as Mr. Takiguchi
(2017) Sekigahara
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
(2016) Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actor
(2014) A Samurai Chronicle
as Toda
(1982) The Legend of Sayo
as ---
(2007) Argentine Hag
as Satoru Wakui
(2004) The Hunter and the Hunted
as Detective Jin
(2018) The Blood of Wolves
as Shogo Ogami
(2007) The Sin
as ---
(2018) Mirai
as Grandfather (voice)
(1982) Eternal Monument
as Ootaka
(1998) Bonds
as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
(2019) Wings Over Everest
as Jiang Yuesheng
(2007) Walking My Life
as Yukihiro Fujiyama
(1996) Shabu
as ---
(1981) Willful Murder
as Journalist
(2021) Under the Open Sky
as Mikami Masao
(2005) Memoirs of a Geisha
as Nobu
(1994) Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
as ---
(2004) Tokyo: Level One
as Governor of Tokyo
(2021) Belle
as Suzu's Father (voice)
(2022) The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
as Kawai Tsugunosuke
(2021) The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
as ---
(1990) Megumi no Sekai
as ---
Suzume Iro Doki
as ---
(2025) Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
as ---
(1999) Keijitachi no Natsu
as ---
(2004) People Without a Fort
as Nagasaka Fumio
(2007) Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
as Self
(1991) Takeda Shingen
as 武田晴信
(2025) The Brightest Sun
as ---
顔に降りかかる雨
as ---
(1988) 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−
as ---
(1991) サハリンの薔薇
as ---
(1997) Middle-aged Bachelors
as ---
(2000) The Password is Courage
as ---
(1984) 宮本武蔵
as Miyamoto Musashi
(1990) Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
as ---
(1991) Takeda Shingen
as Takeda Shingen
(2002) The Life of Bangaku
as Ajigawa Bantake
(1994) Hana no Ran
as ---
(1987) Lethal Three
as ---
(2017) Rikuoh
as Koichi Miyazawa
(1962) Golden Horse Awards
as Self
(1981) Kinagashi Bugyō
as ---
(1981) The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
as ---
(1983) Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
as ---
(1984) 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵
as 宮本武蔵
(1987) Chotchan
as 神谷容
(1993) Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
as ---
(2017) Ties: A Miraculous Colt
as Masayuki Matsushita
(2023) THE DAYS
as Masao Yoshida
(2019) Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
as 嘉納治五郎
(2023) Vivant
as Nogōn Beki
(1987) New Yotsuya Kaidan
as ---
(2014) Back of Father
as Aoki Sosuke
(2021) Pension Metsä
as Tsuneki
(1983) Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Oda Nobunaga