# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koji-yakusho
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:35:59.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koji-yakusho"
name: "Kōji Yakusho"
slug: "koji-yakusho"
description: "Kōji Hashimoto , known professionally as Kōji Yakusho , is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), Cure (1997), 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 (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "Japanese actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yakusho_Koji_%22The_World_of_Harada_Masato%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_(22403788836)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.23423466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945131/"
    handle:    "nm0945131"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://yakushokoji.cocolog-nifty.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കൊജി യാകുഷോ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Koji Yakusho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kōji Yakusho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кодзі Якусьо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "役所廣司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18056"
    title: "Koji Yakusho"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump