Akira Emoto
Department: Acting
Biography
Old good "Emo-chan" of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mother's grandfather ran a shamisen store in Ginza, Tokyo. Both parents like movies and theaters. After graduating from Machinery Department of Tokyo Industrial High School, Emoto got a job at a trading company. However, he became an actor and became a student of the acting classes of the theater company "Marui", which is headed by Nobuo Kaneko, and met Yusaku Matsuda who was in the same class. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
Known For
Zatoichi
2003
Umami
2023
Hard Days
2023
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
The Eel
1997
A Crowd of Three
2010
Noise
2022
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Turn
2001
The Great Yokai War
2005
Living Rights
2015
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Rain Fall
2009
The City of Lost Souls
2000
ICHI
2008
Villain
2010
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
Worst by Chance
2003
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
One Day in January
2012
Golden Slumber
2010
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
Dr. Akagi
1998
Maborosi
1995
The Chasing World
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
The Silk Road
1988
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Starfish Hotel
2007
In His Chart
2011
Manhattan Kiss
1992
April Bride
2009
Ace Attorney
2012
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
Goal of the Sky
2023
Haru's Journey
2010
For the coming day
2005
Unforgiven
2013
The Setting Sun
2022
The Motive
2004
The Friends
1994
September 1923
2023
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Lovers Lost
1982
Wandering
2022
Cast Me If You Can
2010
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
The Lightning Tree
2010
Yellow Elephant
2013
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
Touken Ranbu 2
2023
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
The War and a Woman
2013
The Innocent Game
2023
Private Lessons II
1993
The Taste of Fish
2008
The Shadow Spirit
2007
Owl
2003
KT
2002
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
Will to Live
1999
Wood Job!
2014
0.5 mm
2014
John Rabe
2009
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
Life Back Then
2011
Oh! Father
2014
Postcard
2010
Farewell, Kuro
2003
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
Barber's Sorrow
2002
Shylock's Children
2023
The Last Frankenstein
1991
The Whispered City
2000
The Happiness
2006
All Around Us
2008
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
Present for You
2015
Memories of Matsuko
2006
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
After the Flowers
2010
River of First Love
2004
The Go Master
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Abduction
1997
Beijing Watermelon
1989
It's Only Talk
2006
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Cold
2014
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Moon & Cherry
2004
Japan Sinks
2006
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Time Trip App
2014
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Roar of the Crowd
1990
Scrap Heaven
2005
Heaven's Story
2010
Fancy Dance
1989
Journey to the Shore
2015
Vampire in Love
2015
Egoist
2023
Rental Family
2025
Ripples
2023
A House on a Hill
2014
Sleeping Forest
2014
The Man from Shimizu
1982
Round About Midnight
1999
Love Letter
1998
Do Unto Others
2023
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
No Place to Go
2022
Nagisa
2000
Samurai Fury
2025
Drugstore Girl
2004
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
The Big Bee
2015
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Shin Godzilla
2016
Maria's Stomach
1990
The Second Is a Christian
1985
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
Doppelganger
2003
Black Widow Business
2016
Battle Heater
1989
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Hana
2003
The Yen Family
1988
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
Shippu Rondo
2016
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
Harimao
1989
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Maru
2024
Kaza-hana
2001
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
Lu Over the Wall
2017
Location
1984
Waterboys
2001
Mukoku
2017
A Living Promise
2016
Revolver
1988
Random Lives
2017
Suspicion
1982
Double Bed
1983
Color Me True
2018
Teacher and Three Children
2008
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
A Grain of Wheat
2016
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
Free and Easy 8
1996
Another Heaven
2000
Evil and The Mask
2018
Shikei Kijun
2011
Shoplifters
2018
Neko Ninja
2017
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
Recall
2018
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
Bedtime Eyes
1987
September 11
2002
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
Goodbye Mama
1991
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Sniper
2016
Survival Family
2017
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
Castle of Sand
2019
A Sower of Seeds
2012
Oz Land
2018
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
The Promised Land
2019
Winning Pass
2004
Body and Soul
1997
Three for the Road
2007
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Universal Laws
1990
The Key
1997
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Shall We Dance?
1996
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Make-Up
1984
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
Congratulatory Speech
1985
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
Living in the Sky
2020
Godot of the Emotos
2019
Underdog: Part One
2020
Happy Flight
2008
Stardust over the Town
2020
Zebraman
2004
Teacher's suitcase
2003
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
It Feels So Good
2019
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
The End of the Tiny World
2021
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
Wonderful Paradise
2020
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
A Man
2022
Prodigy
2007
The Boy and the Dog
2025
Utsusemi no mori
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Amagi Pass
1983
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
Underdog: Part Two
2020
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
The God of Curling
2024
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
The Final Piece
2025
The Partner
2013
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
Rotting
2024
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
One Last Throw
2025
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Banjo no Himawari
2019
Water Boys
2003
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Love and Glory
2006
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
Segodon
2018
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
The Private Detective Mike
2002
The Long Goodbye
2014
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
Haru and Natsu
2005
てにあまる
2021
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011
Olympic Ransom
2013
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
A Life
2017
Frankenstein's Love
2017
Family Court Judge
1993
満天のゴール
2023
Ten Count to the Future
2022
In Hand
2019
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
Silver and Gold
2017
Absolute Zero
2010
Good Doctor
2018
Teen Regime
2022
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
Folktales from Japan
2012
混声の森
2022
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Yanchakure
1998
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011
Black Kite
2013
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
Goodbye My Dear
2022
Japanese Style
2022
Lost Man Found
2022
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
Prince Shotoku
2001
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015
Platinum Town
2012
Mori no Asagao
2010
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019
竜馬がゆく
2004
Get Ready!
2023
JK to Roppozensho
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
Taiheiki
1991
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995
Arashi no Namida
2016
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
疑惑
2012
ホットドッグ
1990
愛の流刑地
2007
A Woman from Ashio
2014
Scandal Eve
2025
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026