Perfect Days
2023
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He played a major character in Juzo Itami 's 1986 Tampopo. [1] In 1988, he was given a special award for work in cinema by the Japanese Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and continued to appear in films and in a number of TV shows through the '90s. [1] In 1996 and 1997, Yakusho enjoyed several major successes.
- Actor
- Kōji Hashimoto, 1 January 1956 (age 67), Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
- 1978–present
Koji Yakusho. Actor: Perfect Days. Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export.
- January 1, 1
- 1.78 m
- Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Oct 25, 2023 · Across a 45-year career in the movies, Koji Yakusho has worked with every major Japanese director of his generation and inhabited over 80 characters, spanning salarymen, samurai, yakuza gangsters ...
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 ...
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Koji Yakusho. Actor: Perfect Days. Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export. He was born in the southern city of Nagasaki as Koji Hashimoto, but moved to Tokyo and began ...
- January 1, 1956
Japan's Koji Yakusho won best actor at Cannes on Saturday for "Perfect Days" by German director Wim Wenders, a touching tale about a Tokyo toilet cleaner. Yakusho, 67, became the first Japanese ...
Dec 10, 2023 · KOJI YAKUSHO: Well, it all started firstly with the Shibuya Toilet Project also known as the Tokyo Toilet Project, that involves the public toilets in Shibuya, and I was asked to play this cleaner ...
