Person
Koji Yakusho
Born 1 January 1956 70 years old Isahaya, Japan Who else is 70? → TMDB ↗
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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The numbers
23age in their first credit on record (1979)
47years on screen and counting
6credits in 2023, their busiest year
127dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 70 The Brightest Sun
2026
Age: 69 Scarlet
2025as Claudius (voice)
Age: 69 Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special
2025
Age: 69 Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
2025
Age: 68 Hakkenden
2024as Bakin Takizawa
Age: 67 Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
2023as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
Age: 67 Perfect Days
2023as Hirayama
Age: 67 Father of the Milky Way Railroad
2023as Miyazawa Masajiro
Age: 67 Família
2023as Seiji Kamiya
Age: 66 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022as Kawai Tsugunosuke
Age: 66 Gratitude
2022
Age: 65 Belle
2021as Suzu's Father (voice)
Age: 65 The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021
Age: 65 Under the Open Sky
2021as Mikami Masao
Age: 63 Wings Over Everest
2019as Jiang Yuesheng
Age: 63 Whistleblower
2019
Age: 62 Mirai
2018as Grandfather (voice)
Age: 62 The Blood of Wolves
2018as Shogo Ogami
Age: 62 Oh Lucy!
2018as Takeshi Komori / Tom
Age: 61 The Third Murder
2017as Takashi Misumi
Age: 61 Sekigahara
2017as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Age: 59 The Emperor in August
2015as General Korechika Anami
Age: 59 The Boy and the Beast
2015as Kumatetsu (voice)
Age: 58 A Samurai Chronicle
2014as Toda
Age: 58 The World of Kanako
2014as Akikazu Fujishima
Age: 58 I Am Searching For Myself
2014
Age: 57 The Kiyosu Conference
2013as Katsuie Shibata
Age: 56 The Terminal Trust
2012as Shinzo Egi
Age: 56 Chronicle of My Mother
2012as Kosaku
Age: 56 The Woodsman and the Rain
2012as Katsuhiko
Age: 55 Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011as Isoroku Yamamoto
Age: 55 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2011as Kageyu
Age: 55 Early Autumn
2011
Age: 54 The Last Ronin
2010as Magozaemon Senoo
Age: 54 13 Assassins
2010as Shinzaemon Shimada
Age: 53 The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009as Morisaku Furuta
Age: 53 Toad's Oil
2009as Takuro Yazawa
Age: 53 Ekiro
2009as Det. Yobuno
Age: 53 Gelatin Silver, Love
2009as Client
Age: 52 Tokyo Sonata
2008as Robber
Age: 52 Paco and the Magical Book
2008as Onuki
Age: 51 Walking My Life
2007as Yukihiro Fujiyama
Age: 51 The Sin
2007
Age: 51 Silk
2007as Hara Jubei
Age: 51 Argentine Hag
2007as Satoru Wakui
Age: 51 Retribution
2007as Noboru Yoshioka
Age: 51 I Just Didn't Do It
2007as Masayoshi Arakawa
Age: 50 Babel
2006as Yasujiro Wataya
Age: 50 Suite Dreams
2006as Heikichi Shindo
Age: 49 Memoirs of a Geisha
2005as Nobu
Age: 49 Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2005as Masami Shin'ichi
Age: 49 The Lakeside Murder Case
2005as Shunsuke Namiki
Age: 48 University of Laughs
2004as Mutsuo Sakisaka
Age: 48 People Without a Fort
2004as Nagasaka Fumio
Age: 48 Fireflies: River of Light
2004as Mr. Takiguchi
Age: 48 Séance
2004as Sato
Age: 48 Tokyo: Level One
2004as Governor of Tokyo
Age: 48 The Hunter and the Hunted
2004as Detective Jin
Age: 47 Doppelgänger
2003as Michio Hayasaki
Age: 46 The Choice of Hercules
2002as Atsuyuki Sassa
Age: 45 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
2001as Yosuke Sasano
Age: 45 Pulse
2001as Ship Captain
Age: 45 Eureka
2001as Makoto Sawai
Age: 44 Dora-heita
2000as Koheita Mochizuki
Age: 43 Charisma
1999as Goro Yabuike
Age: 43 Jubaku: Spellbound
1999as Hiroshi Kitano
Age: 43 Keijitachi no Natsu
1999
Age: 43 License to Live
1999as Fujimori
Age: 42 Tadon and Chikuwa
1998
Age: 42 Bonds
1998as Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
Age: 42 Yukon
1998as Takayuki Iwabuchi
Age: 41 Cure
1997as Kenichi Takabe
Age: 41 Bounce Ko Gals
1997as Oshima
Age: 41 The Eel
1997as Takuro Yamashita
Age: 41 Lost Paradise
1997as Shoichiro Kuki
Age: 40 Shabu
1996
Age: 40 Sleeping Man
1996as Kamimura
Age: 40 Shall We Dance?
1996as Shohei Sugiyama
Age: 39 Kamikaze Taxi
1995as Kazumasa Kantake
Age: 39 History of Jirocho Shimizu
1995
Age: 38 Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
1994No poster
Age: 38 39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
1994
Age: 37 Dark Society in the East
1993as Ryosuke Kano
Age: 37 Crimson Lotus
1993
Age: 36 Suzume Iro Doki
1992
Age: 35 Takeda Shingen
1991as Takeda Shingen
Age: 34 Aurora Borealis
1990as Genzo
Age: 34 Megumi no Sekai
1990
Age: 32 Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988
Age: 31 The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
Age: 29 Tampopo
1985as White Suit Man
Age: 28 The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
Age: 27 The Fir Trees Remain
1983
Age: 26 The Legend of Sayo
1982
Age: 26 The Law of Hell
1982
Age: 26 Eternal Monument
1982as Ootaka
Age: 26 Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1982
Age: 25 Willful Murder
1981as Journalist
Age: 24 Twelve Months
1980as Young soldier (voice)
Age: 23 Hunter in the Dark
1979as Kuwano
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TV credits
No poster
Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?
as Gen Takasegawa
Age: 67 Vivant
2023as Nogōn Beki
Age: 67 THE DAYS
2023as Masao Yoshida
Age: 65 Matrilineal Family
2021as 矢島嘉蔵
Age: 65 Pension Metsä
2021as Tsuneki
Age: 63 Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
2019as 嘉納治五郎
Age: 61 Rikuoh
2017as Koichi Miyazawa
Age: 61 Ties: A Miraculous Colt
2017as Masayuki Matsushita
Age: 58 Back of Father
2014as Aoki Sosuke
Age: 46 The Life of Bangaku
2002as Ajigawa Bantake
Age: 44 The Password is Courage
2000
Age: 41 Middle-aged Bachelors
1997
Age: 38 Hana no Ran
1994
Age: 37 Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
1993
Age: 35 サハリンの薔薇
1991 Age: 35 Takeda Shingen
1991as Takeda Shingen
Age: 34 Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990No poster
Age: 32 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−
1988
Age: 31 Lethal Three
1987
Age: 31 New Yotsuya Kaidan
1987
Age: 31 Chotchan
1987as 神谷容
Age: 30 Inochi
1986as Naohiko Hamamura
No poster
Age: 28 宮本武蔵
1984as Miyamoto Musashi
Age: 28 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵
1984as 宮本武蔵
Age: 27 Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1983
Age: 27 Tokugawa Ieyasu
1983as Oda Nobunaga
Age: 25 Kinagashi Bugyō
1981
Age: 25