Best movies of Kôji Yakusho

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

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

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Anna Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Ujiki,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Haru Kuroki, Moka Kamishiraishi, Gen Hoshino,
Directors : Mamoru Hosoda,

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa, Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Eri Watanabe, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

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

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

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.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Yôichirô Saitô,
Directors : Shinji Aoyama,

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.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Sei Ashina,
Directors : François Girard,

The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroya Shimizu, Nana Komatsu,
Directors : Tetsuya Nakashima,

As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.

Actors : Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Kôji Yakusho, Masaharu Fukuyama, Mikako Ichikawa,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like an open and shut case, for Misumi has confessed to the new charge. Enter prominent ...

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Kôji Yakusho, Shinobu Terajima, Kaho Minami,
Directors : Atsuko Hirayanagi,

A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class where she discovers her alter ego, Lucy.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Kôji Yakusho, Akira Emoto, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Manami Konishi, Hiroyuki Hirayama,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points ...

Actors : Hiromi Nagasaku, Kôji Yakusho, Yûsuke Santamaria, Masahiro Toda,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His ...

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Yoriko Dôguchi, Ren Ôsugi, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without ...

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Gorô Inagaki, Masao Komatsu, Tae Kimura,
Directors : Mamoru Hoshi,

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kôji Yakusho, Yû Kashii, Toshirô Yanagiba,

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Kôji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Shingo Katori,
Directors : Kôki Mitani,

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is ...

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Mitsugorô Bandô, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya,
Directors : Izuru Narushima,

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.