Koji Yakusho has played a range of roles in Japanese and Hollywood films and his ability to imbue a range of characters with humanism is part of why he's being honored at Tokyo Film Festival ...

Hong Kong [Japan], March 7 (ANI): Veteran Japanese actor Yakusho Koji will be honoured with the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the 18th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, Japan, reported ...

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie ...

CINEMA CHAMPION Veteran Japanese actor Yakusho Koji will be feted with the prestigious lifetime achievement honor at the 18th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. Yakusho, who won best actor at Cannes ...

CINEMA CHAMPION Veteran Japanese actor Yakusho Koji will be feted with the prestigious lifetime achievement honor at the 18th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. Yakusho, who won best actor at Cannes ...

Starring in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” Koji Yakusho found his role would have very little dialogue. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) By Gregory Ellwood. Nov. 30, 2023 6 AM PT .

Yakusho was worried that audiences in Japan, where he’s been well-known since starring in the hit “Shall We Dance?” in 1996, wouldn’t accept him as a cleaner. “Wim wanted to cast someone ...

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 ...

Films from Yakusho's 40-year career will be screened at the event, which begins Oct. 25. By Gavin J Blair Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will showcase the work of actor Koji Yakusho and ...

Koji Yakusho, who won Best Actor for his role in the film “Perfect Days,” delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the 76th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 27.