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Acting

Koji Yakusho

Career: Active from 1981 to 2026, busiest in 2004 and 2023 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 74
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: The Blood of Wolves
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 56 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Koji Yakusho Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.3, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4
Cringe Humor
1.4, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Japanese Cinema 18
Character-Driven 15
Political Intrigue 10
Historical Drama 8
Character Study 6
Period Piece 5
Slow Burn 5
Melancholic 5
Melancholy 4
Atmospheric 4
Mystery 4
Thought-Provoking 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

109

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis

as Narrator

2020s

15 titles · average score 73

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?

79

TV show · as Gen Takasegawa / Yorozu Mantaro

Scarlet

68

as Claudius (voice)

Hakkenden

as Bakin Takizawa

Perfect Days

85

as Hirayama

THE DAYS

62

TV show · as Masao Yoshida

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

76

as Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)

Vivant

71

TV show · as Nogōn Beki

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

64

as Miyazawa Masajiro

Família

as Seiji Kamiya

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

as Kawai Tsugunosuke

Under the Open Sky

69

as Mikami Masao

Pension Metsä

TV show · as Tsuneki

2010s

22 titles · average score 72

The Blood of Wolves

89

as Shogo Ogami

Mirai

79

as Grandfather (voice)

The Third Murder

72

as Takashi Misumi

Rikuoh

74

TV show · as Koichi Miyazawa

Sekigahara

60

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Boy and the Beast

78

as Kumatetsu (voice)

The World of Kanako

62

as Akikazu Fujishima

The Kiyosu Conference

63

as Katsuie Shibata

The Woodsman and the Rain

69

as Katsuhiko

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

75

as Kageyu

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

67

as Isoroku Yamamoto

13 Assassins

84

as Shinzaemon Shimada

2000s

30 titles · average score 67

Gelatin Silver, Love

64

as Client

Paco and the Magical Book

68

as Onuki

I Just Didn't Do It

78

as Masayoshi Arakawa

Retribution

65

as Noboru Yoshioka

Suite Dreams

66

as Heikichi Shindo

Memoirs of a Geisha

59

as Nobu

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

45

as Masami Shin'ichi

Séance

73

as Katsuhiko Sato

Doppelgänger

66

as Michio Hayasaki

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

72

as Yosuke Sasano

Eureka

81

as Makoto Sawai

Dora-heita

64

as Koheita Mochizuki

1990s

21 titles · average score 69

Charisma

71

as Goro Yabuike

License to Live

73

as Fujimori

Jubaku: Spellbound

64

as Hiroshi Kitano

Cure

81

as Kenichi Takabe

The Eel

70

as Takuro Yamashita

Lost Paradise

62

as Shoichiro Kuki

Bounce Ko Gals

53

as Oshima

Shall We Dance?

77

as Shohei Sugiyama

Sleeping Man

74

as Kamimura

Kamikaze Taxi

69

as Kazumasa Kantake

Takeda Shingen

TV show · as Takeda Shingen

Aurora Borealis

as Genzo

1980s

19 titles · average score 72

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

as Naoto Sekiya

Lethal Three

TV show

Inochi

TV show · as Naohiko Hamamura

Tampopo

88

as White Suit Man

TV show · as Miyamoto Musashi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

TV show · as Oda Nobunaga

The Legend of Sayo

as Hatsutaro (Sayo's brother)

The Law of Hell

as Genzô

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

65

as Kondo

Willful Murder

as Journalist

Kinagashi Bugyō

TV show

Twelve Months

64

as Young soldier (voice)

1970s

1 title · average score 73

Hunter in the Dark

73

as Kuwano