# The best Koji Yakusho movies

From Shall We Dance?, The Eel and Cure to The Blood of Wolves and Under the Open Sky: Koji Yakusho's key films, the ones at the top of Film Concier, Eiga Hitottobi, Rank King and Ranking.net.

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- May 14, 2024 · kobeeiga
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## Top 14

1. **The Eel (1997)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Shohei Imamura. A paroled man and his pet eel. Palme d'Or at Cannes.
2. **The Wow-Choten Hotel (2006)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Koki Mitani. An ensemble comedy in a hotel on New Year's Eve.
3. **Cure (1997)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Kiyoshi Kurosawa. A detective chasing a mysterious series of murders.
4. **Shall We Dance? (1996)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Masayuki Suo. A salaryman who gets hooked on ballroom dancing. Remade in Hollywood.
5. **The Emperor in August (2015)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Masato Harada. War minister Korechika Anami on the day of surrender.
6. **The World of Kanako (2014)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Tetsuya Nakashima. An ex-cop searching for his missing daughter.
7. **The Third Murder (2017)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hirokazu Kore-eda. A murderer who keeps changing his confession.
8. **Under the Open Sky (2021)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Miwa Nishikawa. A former yakuza starting over after prison.
9. **13 Assassins (2010)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Takashi Miike. Thirteen samurai out to kill a tyrant.
10. **Lost Paradise (1997)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Yoshimitsu Morita. An affair drama from Junichi Watanabe's novel.
11. **Sekigahara (2017)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Masato Harada. The great battle, with him as Tokugawa Ieyasu.
12. **Tampopo (1985)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Juzo Itami. The 'ramen western' about a noodle shop.
13. **Babel (2006)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The father in the Tokyo story.
14. **The Blood of Wolves (2018)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Kazuya Shiraishi. Hiroshima gangs and a maverick cop.

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