#Andrew Koji

[in-love-with-movies]

Bullet Train (2022)

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Andrew Koji with Ali Afshar and Shaun Piccinino (producer and director of "High Stakes Holiday")

📸: Ali Afshar

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ANDREW KOJI as Ah Sahm in WARRIOR (2019-) S03E10: A Window of F*cking Opportunity

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Roy Shimada He / him

"I am the only person I answer to."

SPECIES: Kitsune OCCUPATION: Carpenter AGE: 562 Years Old (Looks to be about 40) PLAYED BY: Trini FC: Andrew Koji

BIOGRAPHY:

Much of Roy’s distant past is mired in conflict and blood. Thinking back on those days is much like peering into a broken mirror: the glassy surface reflects an image distorted by a web of fractures and the longer he looks, the less he’s able to make out what it is he is seeing. It is disorienting. Impossible to tell where one memory begins and the other ends.

What he knows is this: he was born in the mountains of the Tōhoku region, at the beginning of what is now known as the Sengoku Period. His mother, Myorin, survived the wave of Mongol invasions led by Kublai Khan, and the ensuing bedlam instilled in her a profound distrust of humans and their war-mongering ways. She raised him far from the settlements built in the lowlands between the mountain range, preferring the freedom and safety of the wilderness to mortal entanglements, but the devastation left in the wake of the last war couldn’t be outrun. Not even the deepest parts of the forests, or the tallest mountain peak, could escape the political chaos and civil revolt which spread across the land like wildfire, burning and reducing everything in its path to cinders.

He also knows there is no glory in war, though this realization came centuries later. History would have you believe honor was won on the battlefield, clan banners held high, as warriors clad in ancestral armor charged forth in the name of their lords, staining the earth red with the blood of their enemies. There is no such thing. No honor, no greatness. There is only fear and hubris. Sudden and indiscriminate violence. Countless lives sent to the slaughter on behalf of petty and vainglorious masters who vied for whatever scraps of power and control they could wrest from their neighbor.

Blood and fire. It became easier, then, for Roy to view the world of mortals as parasitic. Industrious and prolific, they were also invasive and drove out the native life in favor of consuming resources and extending their territory until they inevitably outgrew their borders, glutted on the dead and the suffering of those who came before them. He can’t recall the names, much less the faces, of those he’d felled as a direct, or indirect, result of his actions. Never bothered to commit them to memory because, at the time, they meant nothing. There was no mercy in his heart. No empathy. He felt nothing for them.

Didn’t think twice about instigating conflict between warring daimyos, or sowing discord and distrust between once powerful allies just to stand back and watch as they destroyed themselves from within.

Centuries of conflict, sociopolitical strife, and rebellion is how Roy earned most of his nogitsune tails. Very rarely has he experienced peace, and if he ever did, it was fleeting. Sufficed to say there was very little time for peace and prosperity thanks to enduring notoriety and a reputation for exacting brutality.

Roy emigrated from Japan to the United-States some time between 1894-1895 due to the ongoing war with China at that point in time. He accomplished this by possessing American tradesmen who brought their ships to port in the city of Hakodate to refuel and restock on provisions. It is around this time he took up the name Roy. Once the trade ship made its journey back to Los Angeles, he spent the following decades exploring the country, learning English, and coming to blows with old and pedigreed lineages of Hunters who thought it wise to chase after a six-tailed kitsune.

He made his way to and settled in Wicked’s Rest, Maine, following the forcible relocation and incarceration of Japanese American citizens. Coincidentally, it is during this time Roy acquired his sixth tail. Since then, he’s kept a low profile, focusing instead on living a quiet life as Roy Shimada.

PERSONALITY:

Assertive · Brutal · Committed · Callous · Devious · Diligent · Proud · Thoughtful

OTHER INFO:

Roy is a carpenter who specializes primarily in restoring dilapidated and/or condemned buildings. He works primarily in the bad part of town, aka Worm Row, but he has no problem working on other housing projects if the price is right.

Roy Shimada is not his real name. It’s an identity he created for himself after he immigrated to the United States over a century ago.

Abides by strict principles of defensivism as part of his longstanding agreement with local and prominent ranger families. Basically, so long as he doesn’t go around killing or tormenting humans, they’re content to let him live peacefully in Wicked’s Rest.

[dailyclaudiajessie]

CLAUDIA JESSIE as JEANETTE SU in CALL THE MIDWIFE (2013)

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Look at this loser

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Andrew koji as Basha in Boy Kills World (2024) dir. Moritz Mohr

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when he’s dead he vapes 💔

[filministic]

Bullet Train (2022) dir. David Leitch

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Tumblr is NOT letting me format these but enjoy my “Bullet Train as text posts” entry

Edit: TUMBLR FINALLY LET ME FORMAT THEM

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[jijakarim]

Andrew Koji celebrating Christina Moore's birthday with cast and crew of his new movie in Las Vegas. (13/04/2025)

He starts filming today (14/04/2025) his new movie.

Maybe this one

Violet and Madeleine McGraw to Star in Holiday Action Film (EXCLUSIVE)

📸: Ali Afshar's IG story

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WARRIOR (2019-) S03E10: A Window of F*cking Opportunity

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Keira Knightley & Andrew Koji filming Black Doves in London, January 2024.

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Drawing Yuichi Kimura from Bullet Train in kimono and with orchids because I miss him

🏵️🏵️🏵️

[peach-teea]

I need Andrew Koji. Seriously. Like it's not healthy but I can't stop thinking about this man and the lack of fanfics for his characters is CRIMINAL.