Koji Yakusho: movies and TV shows
Koji Yakusho has 135 credits in the archive: 106 films and 29 TV series, from 1962 to 2026. Highest rated: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (9.5/10).
Career timeline
1962 – 2026 · busiest year: 2007 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Brightest Sun | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2025 | Scarlet | Claudius (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2025 | Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special | Film | 6.0 | 69 | |
| 2025 | Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope | Film | 9.5 | 69 | |
| 2025 | Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende | Self | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2024 | Hakkenden | Bakin Takizawa | Film | 7.4 | 68 |
| 2023 | Perfect Days | Hirayama | Film | 7.8 | 67 |
| 2023 | Perfect Days | Film | 7.8 | 67 | |
| 2023 | Vivant | Nogōn Beki | TV | 7.4 | 67 |
| 2023 | THE DAYS | Masao Yoshida | TV | 7.8 | 67 |
| 2023 | Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window | Sōsaku Kobayashi (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 67 |
| 2023 | Família | Seiji Kamiya | Film | 6.7 | 67 |
| 2023 | Father of the Milky Way Railroad | Miyazawa Masajiro | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2022 | The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai | Kawai Tsugunosuke | Film | 7.4 | 66 |
| 2022 | Gratitude | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2021 | Belle | Suzu's Father (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 65 |
| 2021 | Matrilineal Family | Kazo Yajima | TV | — | 65 |
| 2021 | Under the Open Sky | Mikami Masao | Film | 7.5 | 65 |
| 2021 | Pension Metsä | Tsuneki | TV | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2021 | The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood | Film | 6.7 | 65 | |
| 2019 | Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story | 嘉納治五郎 | TV | 7.8 | 63 |
| 2019 | Whistleblower | Film | 8.0 | 63 | |
| 2019 | Wings Over Everest | Jiang Yuesheng | Film | 5.9 | 63 |
| 2018 | Mirai | Grandfather (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2018 | Oh Lucy! | Takeshi Komori / Tom | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2018 | The Blood of Wolves | Shogo Ogami | Film | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2017 | The Third Murder | Takashi Misumi | Film | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2017 | Sekigahara | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2017 | Rikuoh | Koichi Miyazawa | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2017 | Ties: A Miraculous Colt | Masayuki Matsushita | TV | — | 61 |
| 2016 | Mifune: The Last Samurai | Self - Actor | Film | 7.1 | 60 |
| 2015 | The Boy and the Beast | Kumatetsu (voice) | Film | 7.9 | 59 |
| 2015 | The Emperor in August | General Korechika Anami | Film | 6.6 | 59 |
| 2014 | The World of Kanako | Akikazu Fujishima | Film | 6.4 | 58 |
| 2014 | Back of Father | Aoki Sosuke | TV | 8.0 | 58 |
| 2014 | I Am Searching For Myself | Film | — | 58 | |
| 2014 | A Samurai Chronicle | Toda | Film | 7.1 | 58 |
| 2013 | The Kiyosu Conference | Katsuie Shibata | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2012 | Chronicle of My Mother | Kosaku | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 2012 | The Woodsman and the Rain | Katsuhiko | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 2012 | The Terminal Trust | Shinzo Egi | Film | 6.4 | 56 |
| 2011 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | Kageyu | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 2011 | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Isoroku Yamamoto | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 2011 | Early Autumn | Film | — | 55 | |
| 2010 | 13 Assassins | Shinzaemon Shimada | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 2010 | The Last Ronin | Magozaemon Senoo | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 2009 | The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity | Morisaku Furuta | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 2009 | Gelatin Silver, Love | Client | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 2009 | Toad's Oil | Takuro Yazawa | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2009 | Toad's Oil | Film | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2009 | Ekiro | Det. Yobuno | Film | 3.7 | 53 |
| 2008 | Tokyo Sonata | Robber | Film | 7.4 | 52 |
| 2008 | Paco and the Magical Book | Onuki | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 2007 | Retribution | Noboru Yoshioka | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2007 | Common Ground: Under Construction Notes | Self | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 2007 | Silk | Hara Jubei | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 2007 | I Just Didn't Do It | Masayoshi Arakawa | Film | 7.4 | 51 |
| 2007 | Walking My Life | Yukihiro Fujiyama | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 2007 | Argentine Hag | Satoru Wakui | Film | — | 51 |
| 2007 | The Sin | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2006 | Babel | Yasujiro Wataya | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 2006 | Suite Dreams | Heikichi Shindo | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Nobu | Film | 7.6 | 49 |
| 2005 | The Lakeside Murder Case | Shunsuke Namiki | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2005 | Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | Masami Shin'ichi | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 2004 | Fireflies: River of Light | Mr. Takiguchi | Film | 5.0 | 48 |
| 2004 | University of Laughs | Mutsuo Sakisaka | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2004 | Séance | Sato | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 2004 | The Hunter and the Hunted | Detective Jin | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 2004 | People Without a Fort | Nagasaka Fumio | Film | — | 48 |
| 2004 | Tokyo: Level One | Governor of Tokyo | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 2003 | Doppelgänger | Michio Hayasaki | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 2002 | The Life of Bangaku | Ajigawa Bantake | TV | — | 46 |
| 2002 | The Choice of Hercules | Atsuyuki Sassa | Film | 7.6 | 46 |
| 2001 | Pulse | Ship Captain | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 2001 | Warm Water Under a Red Bridge | Yosuke Sasano | Film | 6.6 | 45 |
| 2001 | Eureka | Makoto Sawai | Film | 7.8 | 45 |
| 2000 | The Password is Courage | TV | — | 44 | |
| 2000 | Dora-heita | Koheita Mochizuki | Film | 5.4 | 44 |
| 1999 | Jubaku: Spellbound | Hiroshi Kitano | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1999 | Charisma | Goro Yabuike | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1999 | Keijitachi no Natsu | Film | — | 43 | |
| 1999 | License to Live | Fujimori | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1998 | Bonds | Takaaki Ise / Tetsuro Haga | Film | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1998 | Yukon | Takayuki Iwabuchi | Film | — | 42 |
| 1998 | Tadon and Chikuwa | Film | 8.0 | 42 | |
| 1997 | Cure | Kenichi Takabe | Film | 7.5 | 41 |
| 1997 | Lost Paradise | Shoichiro Kuki | Film | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1997 | Bounce Ko Gals | Oshima | Film | 6.7 | 41 |
| 1997 | The Eel | Takuro Yamashita | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 1997 | Middle-aged Bachelors | TV | — | 41 | |
| 1996 | Shall We Dance? | Shohei Sugiyama | Film | 7.5 | 40 |
| 1996 | Sleeping Man | Kamimura | Film | 7.8 | 40 |
| 1996 | Shabu | Film | 8.0 | 40 | |
| 1995 | Kamikaze Taxi | Kazumasa Kantake | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1995 | History of Jirocho Shimizu | Film | — | 39 | |
| 1994 | Hana no Ran | TV | 7.0 | 38 | |
| 1994 | Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1994 | 39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame" | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1993 | Dark Society in the East | Ryosuke Kano | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1993 | Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi | TV | — | 37 | |
| 1993 | Crimson Lotus | Film | 8.0 | 37 | |
| 1992 | Suzume Iro Doki | Film | — | 36 | |
| 1991 | Takeda Shingen | Takeda Shingen | TV | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1991 | サハリンの薔薇 | TV | — | 35 | |
| 1991 | Takeda Shingen | Takeda Shingen | Film | 10.0 | 35 |
| 1990 | Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen | TV | 9.5 | 34 | |
| 1990 | Megumi no Sekai | Film | — | 34 | |
| 1990 | Aurora Borealis | Genzo | Film | 5.2 | 34 |
| 1988 | Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho | Film | 1.0 | 32 | |
| 1988 | 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より− | TV | — | 32 | |
| 1987 | Chotchan | 神谷容 | TV | — | 31 |
| 1987 | Lethal Three | TV | 10.0 | 31 | |
| 1987 | New Yotsuya Kaidan | TV | — | 31 | |
| 1987 | The Great Department Store Robbery | Film | 9.0 | 31 | |
| 1986 | Inochi | Naohiko Hamamura | TV | — | 30 |
| 1985 | Tampopo | White Suit Man | Film | 7.8 | 29 |
| 1984 | 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵 | 宮本武蔵 | TV | — | 28 |
| 1984 | The Fox Dancing in the Dusk | Film | — | 28 | |
| 1984 | 宮本武蔵 | Miyamoto Musashi | TV | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1983 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Oda Nobunaga | TV | 10.0 | 27 |
| 1983 | Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin | TV | — | 27 | |
| 1983 | The Fir Trees Remain | Film | — | 27 | |
| 1982 | Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather | Film | 6.2 | 26 | |
| 1982 | Eternal Monument | Ootaka | Film | 10.0 | 26 |
| 1982 | The Law of Hell | Film | — | 26 | |
| 1982 | The Legend of Sayo | Film | 7.0 | 26 | |
| 1981 | The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die? | TV | — | 25 | |
| 1981 | Willful Murder | Journalist | Film | 8.0 | 25 |
| 1981 | Kinagashi Bugyō | TV | — | 25 | |
| 1980 | Twelve Months | Young soldier (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 24 |
| 1979 | Hunter in the Dark | Kuwano | Film | 6.3 | 23 |
| 1962 | Golden Horse Awards | Self | TV | 9.0 | 6 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis | Narrator | Film | — | — | |
| Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? | Gen Takasegawa | TV | — | — |