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Nov 28, 2023 · Koji Yakusho could vie for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as a Tokyo toilet cleaner in Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days."
Sep 11, 2023 · Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, winner of Cannes’ best actor prize this year for his universally acclaimed performance in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, has been selected 2023 Taipei Golden Horse ...
Feb 7, 2024 · Kōji Yakusho is one of the greatest actors alive by any metric. In Japan, he's been nominated for a whopping 23 Japan Academy Film Prize acting awards, and has worked with some of the greatest ...
Yakusho Koji is a Japanese actor. In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In 1983, he landed the role of Oda Nobunaga in the year-long NHK drama Tokugawa Ieyasu and was catapulted to fame.
Nov 30, 2023 · Koji Yakusho and Arisa Nakano star as a janitor and his niece in “Perfect Days.” (Cannes Film Festival) Wenders approached the now 67-year-old actor during a visit to Japan before he’d even ...
Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days ...
Kōji Yakusho never expected to win awards for his performance in Perfect Days, let alone the Cannes Film Festival's prize for Best Actor. Then again, the film has defied his expectations from the very start. "When the producers shared that they wanted Wim Wenders to direct it, I thought, 'There's no way he's gonna fly to Japan to make a movie ...
