Japanese actor Yakusho’s work includes 1997 Palme d’Or winner The Eel.This year’s Tokyo International Film Festival will be hosting retrospectives of the work of Japanese actor Koji Yakusho and animation director Masaaki Yuasa.Tiff’s Japan Now section will screen a selection of Yakusho’s work, which spans Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Eel (1997); Eureka (2001), which received the prize of the Cannes Ecumenical Jury; and international productions such as Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) and Babel (2007).
He also recently starred in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder (2017).
“Koji Yakusho is Japan’s leading international actor, demonstrating
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