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The Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho is prolific, from his roles in Japanese films to parts in American movies like “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Babel”.
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Aug 13, 2012 · Koji Yakusho, Japan's leading acting man, born on January 1, 1956 in Isahaya City, Nagasaki Prefecture, became a highly acclaimed star in 1983 while playing the role of Oda Nobunaga in...
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- JapanSocietyNYC
Perfect Days (2023, directed by Wim Wenders) is set in Tokyo and follows the daily routine of Hirayama, a cleaner of public toilets, while Nowhere Special (2021, directed by Umberto Pasolini) takes place in an unnamed city in Northern Ireland – shot mostly in Belfast – and tells the story of John, a window cleaner who is the sole carer of ...
Jan 30, 2024 · Wim Wenders and Koji Yakusho give their four favorite Japanese films and Wenders speaks to the honor of representing Japan at the 2024 Oscars.
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Feb 5, 2024 · The protagonist, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), is a cleaner for the Tokyo Toilet, a real-life set of seventeen public bathrooms of architectural distinction that opened between 2020 and 2023 in the...
Apr 7, 2022 · The leading French paper Le Monde wrote that Koji Yakusho, 67, who played the leading role in Shohei Imamura’s The Eel, and is also faithful to director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, engraves emotions on the face of the loner, Hirayama.
Dec 25, 2023 · Perfect Days depicts the simple, day-to-day life of the protagonist Hirayama (played by Koji Yakusho). He works as a janitor who lives alone in an old apartment. Every morning, Hirayama is woken up by the sound of a bamboo broom sweeping the nearby street.
