Acting
Koji Yakusho
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.
Filmography
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Golden Horse Awards
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: T...
Scarlet
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this worl...
Back of Father
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
Perfect Days
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes...
THE DAYS
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible thre...
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the ev...
Vivant
Yusuke Nogi of Ryosho's Energy Development Division said that 10 times the official down payment was mistakenly...
Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story inv...
Chotchan
The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.
Rikuoh
A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating...
Cure
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollec...
Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a gei...
The Boy and the Beast
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyu...
The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japan...
Belle
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mo...
Inochi
The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-pa...
The World of Kanako
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent fo...
Hana no Ran
The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. The main char...
The Life of Bangaku
Master swordsman Bangaku Ajigawa is a Ronin with an honest heart, and hates deception. With no family or money,...
Pulse
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to...
Mirai
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his fami...
13 Assassins
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are en...
Pension Metsä
Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tr...
水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...
Kinagashi Bugyō
Koheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead spending his ti...
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
A human drama based on the "Date Riots".
Lost Paradise
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in...
Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a s...
Takeda Shingen
During the 16th Century Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of Civil Wars and the powerful Warlord...
Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
A jidaieki drama where a hard-nosed doshin, Shinpachiro Kariya, takes on difficult cases with exquisite teamwor...
Lethal Three
A wandering samurai, ronin, and ninja; meet by chance repeatedly and reluctantly team up to solve the problems...
The Eel
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and mee...
Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa...