Kôji Yakusho

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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Yakusho Koji is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actors who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export. He was born in the southern city of Nagasaki as Koji Hashimoto, but moved to Tokyo and began working in the city's municipality from which he borrowed his alias. Yakusho means 'government office.' While at acting school he met actress Saeko Kawatsu whom he soon married in 1982. He picked up stage roles, moved to a TV serial on Japan's national broadcaster NHK in 1983 and had his first major break playing a mostly silent role in the avant-garde food drama Tampopo. Koji has collaborated with director Kurosawa Kiyoshi several times, won the Best Actor Award at the Japanese Academy Awards more than once and been nominated for it and other awards even more often. He directed Gaman No Abura in 2009. - IMDb Mini Biography By: aghaemi

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Kôji Yakusho’s flixes, followed by Fandango At Home compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Kôji Yakusho on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1982 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Kôji Yakusho movies released per year from 2009 till 2021.

Top Genres

Kôji Yakusho works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 52% of Kôji Yakusho movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Kôji Yakusho worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Kôji Yakusho has worked on is 6.8.

6.8 / 10

Kôji Yakusho's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

7.9/10114 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

7.9/10124 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

7.8/10217 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

7.8/1060 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Gen Takasegawa, the first Japanese actor to play the lead role at London's Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, has been unable to return to Japan for some time. After two years, he finally makes his way back home, only to find out that he is suddenly and completely forgotten by the entire world.

7.8/1053 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Shall We Dance? (1996)

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

7.7/10136 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Animation
The Boy and the Beast (2015)

When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.

7.6/10119 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Drama
13 Assassins (2010)

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

7.5/10141 min

Available in 18 platform(s).