Koji Yakusho
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Tampopo (1986)
 
- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe… 
- A crazy, satirical comedy in which heroine Tampopo and her cronies strive to create the perfect noodle. A wonderful movie full of hilarious madness…
 
Kamikaze Taxi (1995) 
- Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka 
- An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
 
Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dansu?) (1997) 
- Dir. Masayuki Suo
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari 
- Happiness eludes a successful Japanese salaryman, so he plucks up the courage to attend dance lessons. Hugely popular home and international hit got…
 
Eel, The (1997) 
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu 
- After doing eight years for killing his wife, an inhibited man (Yakusho Koji of SHALL WE DANCE) sets himself up at a quiet riverside barbershop, the…
 
Cure (1997)
 
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki… 
- Delivering one of the great, unsung horror movies, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa plumbs the depths of societal malaise with this novel take on serial…
 
Charisma (1999)
 
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi 
- An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
 
Seance (2000)
 
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho 
- A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
 
Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
 
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Kumiko Aso, Koji Yakusho,  Koyuki… 
- A clandestine by–product of the post–RING phenomenon, this refined and wholly disconcerting tale of a supernatural internet pandemic…
 
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
 
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu 
- Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
 
Eureka  (2001) 
- Dir. Shinji Aoyama
Feat. Aoi Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho 
- Unforgettably beguiling Japanese road trip movie shot in sepia–toned cinema scope, following the existential odyssey of a group of emotionally…
 
Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005)
 
- Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe,  Gong Li… 
- The ravishing Zhang Ziyi takes the lead in this exotically pleasing, if contentious adaptation of Arthur Golden's 'insider' novel, as a young woman…
 
Babel (2006)
 
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal… 
- A bold, virtuoso three–peat for the writer–director team behind AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS, grafting a biblical parable of ill…
 
Retribution (2006)
 
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara 
- A skin–crawling 'mainstream' J–Horror from subtle spookmeister Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this trades heavily in established genre elements, but…
 
Silk  (2007) 
- Dir. Francois Girard
Feat. Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho… 
- Sensuous period drama based on the popular Alessandro Baricco novel about a married silkworm smuggler who becomes infatuated with a local woman…
 
13 Assassins (2010)
 
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Yamada Takayuki, Yusuke Iseya… 
- Takashi Miike turns in perhaps his most entertaining and accomplished film yet with this rollicking SEVEN SAMURAI–inspired adventure, centred…
 
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
 
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka 
- The ever–versatile Takashi Miike changes tack from his rollicking samurai adventure, 13 ASSASSINS, to deliver a restrained and resonant tale of…
 
Perfect Days (2023)
 
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Koji Yakusho 
- The irrepressibly handsome Kôji Yakusho stars as a solitary man who cleans public lavatories for a living but seems to have a rich inner life…