Kôji Yakusho Movies

Lost Paradise

66/100

The tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them. Based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe, is about the fated love affair between Shoichiro, a ... See full synopsis »

The Woodsman and the Rain

70/100

Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie...

Sekigahara

64/100

A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.

The Emperor in August

67/100

The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled.

Saigo no Chûshingura

73/100

An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

Chronicle of My Mother

72/100

The Blood of Wolves

71/100

Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company's employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, ... See full summary »

A Samurai Chronicle

70/100

A content samurai is given ten years to comprehensively chronicle his clan before he commits harakiri, or ritual disembowelment, for being caught in a tryst with one of the concubines of ... See full summary »

Tadon to chikuwa

83/100

A cab-driver spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. A writer faces a creativity bottleneck.

Lakeside Murder Case

62/100

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One ... See full summary »

Spellbound

71/100

Totsunyûseyo! Asama sansô jiken

66/100

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972...

Gelatin Silver, Love

62/100

Toad's Oil

69/100

The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day...

Fireflies: River of Light

72/100

This is a story that shows the potential dreams and teaches kids to never give up

The Terminal Trust

71/100

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo...

Kizuna

68/100

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...

Argentine Baba

60/100

The Hunter and the Hunted

79/100

Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno)...

Tôkyô genpatsu

68/100

Walking My Life

75/100

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered...

Ekiro

74/100

The Great Department Store Robbery

74/100

Early Autumn

72/100

Watashi ga koroshita otoko