---
name: "Yamato Kouchi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yamato-kochi"
fi1m_id: "yamato-kochi"
imdb_id: "nm15270160"
tmdb_id: 3576845
wikidata_id: "Q123405494"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 December 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:13:19.146045+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yamato Kouchi

## Identity

Yamato Kouchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yamato-kochi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yamato-kochi
- **IMDb ID:** nm15270160
- **TMDB ID:** 3576845
- **Wikidata ID:** Q123405494
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Kochi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123405494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15270160/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3576845

Actor. Born 3 December 1978 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 December 1978, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** Yamato Kochi, Yamato Kōchi, Yamato Kôchi, 河内 大和
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Kochi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123405494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15270160/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3576845

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Exit 8*](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md) (72)

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## Biography

Yamato Kochi is a Japanese actor born on 3 December 1978 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He trained and began his career in theatre at Niigata University and the Niigata-City Performing Arts Center, specialising in Shakespearean roles. He later founded the Shakespeare company G.GARAGE/// and has performed in productions directed by Yukio Ninagawa and Hideki Noda.

Kochi's television debut came in the 2023 TBS series *Vivant*. His breakthrough film role was as the Walking Man in *Exit 8* (2025), for which he received the Newcomer of the Year award at the 49th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2026. Subsequent credits include *Hitman from Today* (2023) and the 2026 film *The Samurai and the Prisoner*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ja.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Exit 8* (2025), Fi1m 72, as Walking Man — [page](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Samurai and the Prisoner* (2026), as Itami Ichirozaemon
- *Punch-Drunk Woman* (2026), series, as Hiroyasu Yoroizuka
- *We Are Bad Barbers* (2026), series, Actor
- *Exit 8* (2025), as Walking Man — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/exit-8.md)
- *Macbeth: The Empty Throne* (2025), Actor
- *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood* (2024), as Jack the Ripper
- *Orlando* (2024), Actor
- *Antihero* (2024), series, as Ueda Kiichi
- *Vivant* (2023), series, Actor
- *Taisho Roman Tanteitan -Eden no Utahime-* (2023), as Kizaki
- *ケンジトシ* (2023), Actor
- *THE BEE* (2021), Actor

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