Kôji Yakusho

The Days 2023–

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Kaoru Kobayashi, Oji Suzuka

7.5 IMDB Rating 2,054 Views
Under The Open Sky 2020

A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate normally, but he is also preoccupied by the quest f

Category: Crime

Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Seiji Rokkaku, Yukiya Kitamura

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,223 Views
The Eel 1997

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he "befriended" in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.

Category: Drama

Stars: Kôji Yakusho,Misa Shimizu,Mitsuko Baishô,Akira Emoto

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,717 Views
13 Assassins 2010

In 1844, the peace of Feudal Japan is threatened by cruel Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is politically rising and getting closer to his half-brother, the shogun. After the harakiri of the Namiya clan leader, samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is summoned by the shogun's advisor Sir Doi of the Akashi Clan to listen to the tragedy of Makino Uneme, whose son and daughter-in-law have been murdered by Naritsugu. Then Sir Doi shows a woman with arms, legs and tongue severed by Naritsugu and she writes with her forearm a request to Shinza to slaughter Naritsugu and his samurai. Shinza promises to kill Naritsugu and he gathers eleven other samurais and plots a plan to attack Naritsugu in his trip back to the Akashi land. But the cunning samurai Hanbei Kitou that is responsible for the security of his master foresees Shinza's intent. Shinza decides to go with his samurai through the mountain, where they find the hunter Koyata that guides them off the mountain and joins the group. Now the thirteen men prepare an ambush to Naritsugu and his army of two hundred samurai in a suicide mission to stop evil.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Kôji Yakusho,Takayuki Yamada,Yûsuke Iseya,Gorô Inagaki,Ikki Sawamura,Arata Furuta,Masachika Ichimura,Mikijirô Hira,Sôsuke Takaoka,Seiji Rokkaku,Kazuki Namioka,Kôen Kondô,Yûma Ishigaki,Masataka Kubota,Tsuyoshi Ihara

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,871 Views