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Koji Yakusho Wire

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Results 1 - 20 of 26 in Koji Yakusho

  1. Summer movie fest offers 2 Korean filmsRead the original story

    Sunday Aug 3 | The Honolulu Advertiser

    ... more than three decades. Saturday, Aug. 23, 3 p.m. 2007, Japan, 125 min., Japanese with English subtitles. Koji Yakusho plays Yukihiro Fujiyama, a successful executive and devoted family man. However, when he learns that he's dying of a terminal ...

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  2. Seance

    Monday Jul 28 | DigitallyOBSESSED.com

    Junco (Jun Fubuki) is a psychic married to sound engineer Sato (Koji Yakusho), and the pair lead a quiet, routine-driven life—so much so that at one point Sato himself refers to them as the "picture of modesty". A local paranormal researcher ...

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  3. Koji Yakusho to direct first film

    Jun 19, 2008 | Variety

    Koji Yakusho, star of "Shall We Dance?," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Silk," is helming his first pic, "Gama no abura" , based on his original story.

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  4. BabelRead the original story

    May 24, 2008 | San Diego Reader

    ... locales, to help realize his goal in sheer duration. With Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, and Rinko Kikuchi. 2006. Reader Rating : MPAA Rating: R Send to a Friend Comments Posted 3 days, 7 hours ago Categories

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  5. Cannes Review: Tokyo SonataRead the original story

    May 18, 2008 | Cinematical

    ... piano teacher; Kanji Tsuda is a fellow failure who offers Kagawa a model to emulate and then a cautionary note; Koji Yakusho is a thief who gives more than he takes, and all their work is excellent. It would be understandable if, at the end of Tokyo ...

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  6. Retribution DVDRead the original story

    May 13, 2008 | FANGORIA

    ... this road many times before. RETRIBITION begins as police detective Yoshioka (Kurosawa leading man of choice Koji Yakusho) investigates the murder of a young woman in a red dress, drowned in a shallow, muddy pool but with lungs filled with seawater. ...

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  7. DVD ReviewRead the original story

    Apr 30, 2008 | Metroactive

    ... and in Retribution he establishes a mood of eerie portent early on but never really delivers on his setup. Koji Yakusho plays Yoshioka, a troubled police detective faced with a string of murders in which the clues all point to him, even though he ...

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  8. Retribution

    Apr 23, 2008 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    ... work with favorite actors, who understand their vision and their personal language, so it's no surprise that Koji Yakusho has starred in all of the films listed above. In Retribution he plays a familiar role, the hard-boiled cop who has studied the ...

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  9. Review: Retribution

    Apr 3, 2008 | HorrorScope

    Retribution is a slow-burning crime investigation story with a subtle ghost twist by writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa starring Koji Yakusho .

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  10. Tokyo sakura magazine to cease publicationRead the original story

    Mar 28, 2008 | Daily Yomiuri

    ... in the Taisho era (1912-1926). A number of celebrities have been interviewed for the magazine, including Koji Yakusho, a ward-official-turned-actor, and Tama Aoki, a novelist who graduated from a school for girls in the ward. In the final issue, Rie ...

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  11. Chinese Marlon Brando in Asian film fest spotlightRead the original story

    Mar 9, 2008 | The Standard

    ... Hisaishi, who composed music for 40 films, including for directors Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki, and actor Koji Yakusho. Eleven feature films will be in competition - two each from China, South Korea and Thailand, and one each from Hong Kong, ...

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  12. Japan, China, Korea to feature at 10th Asian film festRead the original story

    Mar 8, 2008 | The Tocqueville Connection

    ... who composed the music for some 40 movies, including for directors Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki, and actor Koji Yakusho. For China the spotlight is on Jia Zhangke, one of the new generation of Chinese directors, and the multi-talented actor ...

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  13. Walking My LifeRead the original story

    Feb 29, 2008 | Variety

    ... Nobuyuki Tohya. Directed by Satoshi Isaka. Screenplay, Satsuo Endo, based on a novel by Yasushi Akimoto. With: Koji Yakusho, Miki Imai, Shun Shioya, Nao Minamisawa, Haruka Igawa, Ittoku Kishibe. A dying man seeks out those he he has wronged ...

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  14. They Keep on Comin'Read the original story

    Feb 25, 2008 | DVDfile.com

    ... the Lionsgate DVD release of Retribution . This acclaimed horror thriller from director Kiyoshi Kurasawa stars Koji Yakusho and Tsuyoshi Ihara will arrive with an anamorphic widescreen transfer, a Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 track, a featurette, an ...

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  15. SilkRead the original story

    Feb 25, 2008 | Movies.com New This Week on DVD

    Pre-order DVD Photos Trailers & Clips Share your movie knowledge! Got some great trivia, hot news or rumors to share about Silk ? POST A TIDBIT TODAY Cast Michael Pitt , Keira Knightley , Koji Yakusho , Alfred ...

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  16. Read

    Feb 20, 2008 | DigitallyOBSESSED.com

    Charisma "The forces of life and destruction? But aren't they the same thing? One destroys the other so it can live." - Jinbo Mitsuko Review By: Matt Peterson Published: May 17, 2005 Stars: Koji Yakusho Other ...

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  17. TV film fare -- week of March 2Read the original story

    Feb 19, 2008 | Catholic.org

    ... by a stray bullet on their tour bus; the deaf-mute teenage daughter (Rinko Kikuchi) of a widower father (Koji Yakusho) in Tokyo who achingly longs for love; and a Mexican governess (Adriana Barraza) who with her nephew (Gael Garcia Bernal) takes her ...

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  18. Kon Ichikawa RememberedRead the original story

    Feb 13, 2008 | Slice of Scifi

    ... off the ground, until Ichikawa dusted off the script three decades later and made "Dora Heita" (2000), starring Koji Yakusho as the magistrate. The Science of Fairy Tales What Shane Felux says about Slice of SciFi: "Slice of SciFi has always been ...

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  19. Director Kon Ichikawa dies at 92Read the original story

    Feb 13, 2008 | Variety

    ... off the ground, until Ichikawa dusted off the script three decades later and made "Dora Heita" (2000), starring Koji Yakusho as the magistrate. A life-long fan of Agatha Christie -- he even used "Christie" as a pen name for his own scenarios -- ...

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  20. 'Sweeney' makes a killing in JapanRead the original story

    Jan 22, 2008 | Variety

    ... n international co-production set largely in Japan and starring Keira Knightley and local thesps Sei Ashina and Koji Yakusho, opened a weak No. 8 at the weekend B.O with $557,226.

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