Koji Yakusho
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…
- 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…