Koji Yakusho

Koji Yakusho is one of Japan’s top film actors. He was born January 1, 1956 in Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan. He has been active in stage, television, and in movies since the early 1980s. He is a favorite of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and has appeared in the majority of his films over the years.

His son is actor Ichiro Hashimoto.

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Born: December 31, 1955 (age 56)

Filmography as actor

Kiyosu Kaigi	2013
The Radio of Hope: After Tsunami 3.11	2013
A Terminal Trust	2012
Admiral Yamamoto	2011
The Woodsman and the Rain	2011
13 Assassins	2010
Tokyo Sonata	2008

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Trailer for documentary "The Radio of Hope: After Tsunami 3.11"

Trailer for Kazunari Tsukahara and Taro Umemura’s 2013 documentary The Radio of Hope: After Tsunami 3.11, featuring narration by actor Koji Yakusho.
6 days ago
Trailer for "A Terminal Trust" (Tsui no Shintaku)

Full trailer for Masayuki Suo’s 2012 film A Terminal Trust starring Koji Yakusho and Tamiyo Kusakari.
2 months ago
Koji Yakusho and Junichi Okada to star in “Higurashi no Ki”

On Monday it was announced that Takashi Koizumi will be directing a film adaptation of Rin Hamuro’s Naoki Prize-winning novel Higurashi no Ki. The project is described as a period drama depicting the love between a master and his student, love between husband and wife, and love within a family.…
2 months ago
First teaser for "A Terminal Trust" starring Tamiyo Kusakari and Koji Yakusho

An official website for Masayuki Suo’s A Terminal Trust has been launched along with a YouTube embed of the film’s new teaser trailer. As you can tell from the opening frame of the teaser, the big PR draw of this project seems to be the fact that it reunites Koji…
12 months ago
Trailer for "Admiral Yamamoto" (Rengō Kantai Shireichōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku)

Trailer for Izuru Narushima’s Admiral Yamamoto, which was released by Toei in Japan on December 23, 2011. Koji Yakusho stars as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the man who devised the plan to attack Pearl Harbor and subsequently ordered the attack, even though he spent several years desperately trying to avoid war…
1 year ago

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