Koji Yakusho Movies

In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brad Pitt

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near...

Genre: Music

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahn Sung-ki

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Sato

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Haruhiko Kato

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koji Yakusho

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayaka Wilson

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to...

Genre: History

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamiyo Kusakari

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kyōko Enami

The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keira Knightley

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ai Kanzaki

A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and...

Genre: History

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Yakusho

An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyoshi Ozawa

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated...

Genre: War

Cast: Junichi Okada

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keanu Reeves

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however,...

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Cast: Go Riju

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Moka Kamishiraishi

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

Genre: War

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone

Genre: Action

Cast: Zhang Jingchu

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will...

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Cast: Koji Yakusho

Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of...

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Cast: Koji Yakusho

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhang Ziyi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

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Cast: Koji Yakusho

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kaho Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi

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Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and...

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Cast: Koji Yakusho

A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Biopic based on the life of poet and novelist Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan’s most read and beloved authors of children’s stories. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the...

Genre: History

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Liliana Ohno

Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nana Komatsu

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Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

~ Adapted from the novel "Hakkenden" (八犬伝) by Yamada Futaro (山田風太郎)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho