Koji Yakusho

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shota Sometani

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Dir. Wim Wenders · With Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Dir. Jūzō Itami · With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Dir. Rob Marshall · With Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yūsuke Iseya

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Dir. Shinji Aoyama · With Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki

The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Dir. Masayuki Suō · With Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Koji Yakusho, Ichikawa Ebizo XI, Eita Nagayama

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same method. However, as evidence points towards the detective, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins questioning his identity. His realization of what seems to be reality results in something far larger and more sinister.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara

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

With Koji Yakusho, Yutaka Takenouchi, Fumiyo Kohinata

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

Dir. Shōhei Imamura · With Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.

Dir. Mamoru Hosoda · With Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.

Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima · With Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Hiroya Shimizu

French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.

Dir. François Girard · With Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Alfred Molina