Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

• 2026Children Untold — Jinbe Yamai / Jinbei
• Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? — Gen Takasegawa
• 2026The Brightest Sun
• 2025Scarlet — Claudius (voice)
• 2025Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
• 2025Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special
• 2024Hakkenden — Bakin Takizawa
• 2023Família — Seiji Kamiya
• 2023Father of the Milky Way Railroad — Miyazawa Masajiro
• 2023Perfect Days — Hirayama, Executive Producer
• THE DAYS — Masao Yoshida
• 2023Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window — Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice)
• Vivant — Nogōn Beki
• 2022Gratitude
• 2022The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai — Kawai Tsugunosuke
• 2021Belle — Suzu's Father (voice)
• Matrilineal Family — Kazo Yajima
• Pension Metsä — Tsuneki
• 2021The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
• 2021Under the Open Sky — Mikami Masao
• Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story — 嘉納治五郎
• 2019Whistleblower
• 2019Wings Over Everest — Jiang Yuesheng
• 2018Mirai — Grandfather (voice)
• 2018Oh Lucy! — Takeshi Komori / Tom
• 2018The Blood of Wolves — Shogo Ogami
• Rikuoh — Koichi Miyazawa
• 2017Sekigahara — Tokugawa Ieyasu
• 2017The Third Murder — Takashi Misumi
• Ties: A Miraculous Colt — Masayuki Matsushita
• 2015The Boy and the Beast — Kumatetsu (voice)
• 2015The Emperor in August — General Korechika Anami
• 2014A Samurai Chronicle — Toda
• Back of Father — Aoki Sosuke
• 2014I Am Searching For Myself
• 2014The World of Kanako — Akikazu Fujishima
• 2013The Kiyosu Conference — Katsuie Shibata
• 2012Chronicle of My Mother — Kosaku
• 2012The Terminal Trust — Shinzo Egi
• 2012The Woodsman and the Rain — Katsuhiko
• 2011Early Autumn
• 2011Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai — Kageyu
• 2011Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet — Isoroku Yamamoto
• 201013 Assassins — Shinzaemon Shimada
• 2010The Last Ronin — Magozaemon Senoo
• 2009Ekiro — Det. Yobuno
• 2009Gelatin Silver, Love — Client
• 2009The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity — Morisaku Furuta
• 2009Toad's Oil — Takuro Yazawa, Director
• 2008Paco and the Magical Book — Onuki
• 2008Tokyo Sonata — Robber
• 2007Argentine Hag — Satoru Wakui
• 2007I Just Didn't Do It — Masayoshi Arakawa
• 2007Retribution — Noboru Yoshioka
• 2007Silk — Hara Jubei
• 2007The Sin
• 2007Walking My Life — Yukihiro Fujiyama
• 2006Babel — Yasujiro Wataya
• 2006Suite Dreams — Heikichi Shindo
• 2005Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean — Masami Shin'ichi
• 2005Memoirs of a Geisha — Nobu
• 2005The Lakeside Murder Case — Shunsuke Namiki
• 2004Fireflies: River of Light — Mr. Takiguchi
• 2004People Without a Fort — Nagasaka Fumio
• 2004Séance — Sato
• 2004The Hunter and the Hunted — Detective Jin
• 2004Tokyo: Level One — Governor of Tokyo
• 2004University of Laughs — Mutsuo Sakisaka
• 2003Doppelgänger — Michio Hayasaki
• 2002The Choice of Hercules — Atsuyuki Sassa
• The Life of Bangaku — Ajigawa Bantake
• 2001Eureka — Makoto Sawai
• 2001Pulse — Ship Captain
• 2001Warm Water Under a Red Bridge — Yosuke Sasano
• 2000Dora-heita — Koheita Mochizuki
• The Password is Courage
• 1999Charisma — Goro Yabuike
• 1999Jubaku: Spellbound — Hiroshi Kitano
• 1999Keijitachi no Natsu
• 1999License to Live — Fujimori
• 1998Bonds — Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga
• 1998Tadon and Chikuwa
• 1998Yukon — Takayuki Iwabuchi
• 1997Bounce Ko Gals — Oshima
• 1997Cure — Kenichi Takabe
• 1997Lost Paradise — Shoichiro Kuki
• Middle-aged Bachelors
• 1997The Eel — Takuro Yamashita
• 1996Shabu
• 1996Shall We Dance? — Shohei Sugiyama
• 1996Sleeping Man — Kamimura
• 1995History of Jirocho Shimizu
• 1995Kamikaze Taxi — Kazumasa Kantake
• 199439th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
• Hana no Ran
• 1994Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
• 1993Crimson Lotus
• 1993Dark Society in the East — Ryosuke Kano
• Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
• 1992Suzume Iro Doki
• 1991Takeda Shingen — Takeda Shingen
• Takeda Shingen — Takeda Shingen
• サハリンの薔薇
• 1990Aurora Borealis — Genzo
• 1990Megumi no Sekai
• Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
• 1988Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho — Naoto Sekiya
• 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−
• Chotchan — 神谷容
• Lethal Three
• New Yotsuya Kaidan
• 1987The Great Department Store Robbery
• Inochi — Naohiko Hamamura
• 1985Tampopo — White Suit Man
• 1984The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
• 宮本武蔵 — Miyamoto Musashi
• 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 — 宮本武蔵
• Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
• 1983The Fir Trees Remain
• Tokugawa Ieyasu — Oda Nobunaga
• 1982Eternal Monument — Ootaka
• 1982Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather — Kondo
• 1982The Law of Hell — Genzô
• 1982The Legend of Sayo — Hatsutaro (Sayo's brother)
• Kinagashi Bugyō
• 1981Magistrate of the Floating World
• The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
• 1981Willful Murder — Journalist
• 1981空よ海よ息子たちよ
• 1980Twelve Months — Young soldier (voice)
• 1979Hunter in the Dark — Kuwano
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende — Self
• 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai — Self - Actor
• 2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes — Self
• 1999Making Of Charisma — Self
• Golden Horse Awards — Self