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Koji Yakusho

Koji Yakusho is a Japanese actor known for his roles in international films such as "Shall We Dance?" and "Babel." He has won numerous awards throughout his career, including Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Yakusho is considered one of Japan's most talented actors.

Titles credited to Koji Yakusho

Tampopo

タンポポ

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.9

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...

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The Boy and the Beast

バケモノの子

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.6

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...

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Babel

Babel

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear,...

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13 Assassins

十三人の刺客

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.5

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 plu...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan 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.

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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

一命

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.3

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 fe...

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THE DAYS

THE DAYS

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2023 IMDB Rating: 7.2

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

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Mirai

未来のミライ

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7

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 mea...

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The Woodsman and the Rain

キツツキと雨

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

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The Blood of Wolves

孤狼の血

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hiok...

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