Kōji Yakusho
Film

Kōji Yakusho

Section Title: Film
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Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes

1979	Hunter in the Dark	Kuwano

The Last Game

1980	Twelve Months	Young soldier (voice)

1981	Willful Murder	Journalist

1982	Onimasa	Kondō	Hideo Gosha

Eternal Monument	Otaka

The Legend of Sayo	Hatsutaro

1985	Tampopo	Man in White Suit	Juzo Itami

1987	The Great Department Store Robbery	Cello player

1988	Another Way: D-Kikan Joho	Naoto Sekiya	Lead role

1990	Under Aurora	Genzo Tamiya	Lead role

1993	Gurenbana	Kenzo Nakada

Drug Connection	Ryosuke Kano	Lead role

1994	Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare	Ippei Yoshikawa

1995	Kamikaze Taxi	Kantake	Masato Harada	Lead role

1996	Shall We Dance?	Shohei Sugiyama	Masayuki Suo	Lead role

Sleeping Man	Kamimura

Shabu gokudo	Makabe	Lead role

1997	Lost Paradise	Shoichiro Kuki	Lead role

The Eel	Takuro Yamashita	Shohei Imamura	Lead role

Bounce Ko Gals	Oshima	Lead role

Cure	Kenichi Takabe	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Lead role

1998	Bonds	Takaaki Ise/Tetsuro Haga

Tadon to chikuwa	Kida	Lead role

1999	License to Live	Fujimori	Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Charisma	Goro Yabuike	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Lead role

Spellbound	Hiroshi Kitano	Masato Harada	Lead role

2000	Swing Man

Dora-heita	Koheita Mochizuki, aka Dora-heita	Lead role

Eureka	Makoto Sawai	Lead role

2001	Pulse	Ship captain	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Cameo

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge	Yosuke Sasano	Lead role

2002	The Choice of Hercules	Atsuyuki Sassa	Lead role

2003	Doppelganger	Michio Hayasaki	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Lead role

Fireflies: River of Light	Mr. Takiguchi

2004	The Hunter and the Hunted	Detective Jin	Lead role

Tokyo: Level One	The Governor of Tokyo	Lead role

Lakeside Murder Case	Shunsuke Namiki	Lead role

University of Laughs	Mutsuo Sakisaka	Lead role

2005	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	Masami Shin'ichi	Lead role

Memoirs of a Geisha	Nobu	Rob Marshall	American film

2006	The Uchōten Hotel	Heikichi Shindo	Kōki Mitani	Lead role

Babel	Yasujiro Wataya	Foreign film

Retribution	Noboru Yoshioka	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Lead role

2007	I Just Didn't Do It	Masayoshi Arakawa	Masayuki Suo

Argentine Baba	Satoru Wakui	Lead role

Silk	Hara Jubei	Foreign film

Walking My Life	Yukihiro Fujiyama	Satoshi Isaka	Lead role

2008	Paco and the Magical Book	Onuki	Tetsuya Nakashima	Lead role

Tokyo Sonata	The Robber	Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2009	Mt. Tsurugidake	Morisaku Furuta	Daisaku Kimura

Gelatin Silver Love	Client	Kazumi Kurigami

Toad's Oil	Takuro Yazawa	Himself	Lead role, also director and writer

2010	13 Assassins	Shinzaemon Shimada	Takashi Miike	Lead role

The Last Ronin	Magozaemon Senoo	Shigemichi Sugita	Lead role

2011	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai	Kageyu Saito	Takashi Miike

Isoroku	Isoroku Yamamoto	Izuru Narushima	Lead role

Chronicle of My Mother	Kōsaku	Masato Harada	Lead role

The Woodsman and the Rain	Katsuhiko	Shūichi Okita	Lead role

2012	A Terminal Trust	Shinzo Egi	Masayuki Suo

2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Shibata Katsuie	Kōki Mitani	Lead role

2014	The World of Kanako	Akikazu Fujishima	Tetsuya Nakashima	Lead role

A Samurai Chronicle	Shūkoku Toda	Takashi Koizumi	Lead role

2015	The Emperor in August	Korechika Anami	Masato Harada	Lead role

The Boy and the Beast	Kumatetsu (voice)	Mamoru Hosoda	Lead role

Mifune: The Last Samurai	Himself	Steven Okazaki	Documentary film

2017	Sekigahara	Tokugawa Ieyasu	Masato Harada

Oh Lucy!	Komori	Atsuko Hirayanagi	American-Japanese film

The Third Murder	Misumi	Hirokazu Koreeda

2018	The Blood of Wolves	Shōgo Ōgami	Kazuya Shiraishi	Lead role

Mirai	Grandpa (voice)	Mamoru Hosoda

2019	Wings Over Everest	Jiang Yuesheng	Fay Yu	Lead role, Chinese film

Whistleblower	Katsuo Fukuzawa	Cameo

2020	Touge: The Last Samurai	Kawai Tsugunosuke	Takashi Koizumi	Lead role

Sentence(s)

In the 2011 film Isoroku, Yakusho portrayed Isoroku Yamamoto.

final_sentence: In the 2011 film Isoroku, Yakusho portrayed Isoroku Yamamoto.