Koji Yakusho News

Hollywood motion picture company Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is set to start making Japanese movies, starting with a samurai tale starring Koji Yakusho of "Shall We Dance?" fame.

Warner Brothers Japan is to make a version of "Chushingura," known elsewhere as "The 47 Ronin," starring Koji Yakusho and Koichi Sato .

Actress Aya Ueto, 24, and actor Koji Yakusho, 53, were at the Piccadilly Theater in Shinjuku on Monday for the world premiere of Astro Boy, titled "ATOM" in Japan.

Face in the Sand A South Korean sand artist Chun Byung-il works on his sand figure featuring Japanese actor Koji Yakusho during the PIFF on the beach in Busan, South Korea, Friday, Oct.

A Phantom Film release of a Dentsu, Eisei Gekijo, Geneon Entertainment, Phantom Film, Pyramid Film, TV Tokyo production.

Koji Yakusho has joined the cast of Takashi Miike's "Thirteen Assassins," a remake of a 1963 hit samurai actioner helmed by Eiichi Kudo.

Actors who direct and star in their own films may be motivated by something other than vanity, but they usually manage to make themselves look cool - or at least cooler than they would have if someone else had been in the director's chair.