Akira Emoto
Actor
Born November 3, 1948 in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Filmography
Kyoto Hippocrates
Convenience Store Kyodai
Umeda Shohei
無垢なる証人
Hiroki Oyagi
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
One Last Throw
Kawato Kozo
Rental Family
Kikuo Hasegawa
Scandal Eve
The Final Piece
Motoji Kanesaki
The Way of The Prison Guard
The Boy and the Dog
Yaichi Katano
Samurai Fury
The God of Curling
Susumu Komiyama
Maru
Teacher
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Keisuke Takamine
Rotting
JK to Roppozensho
桜木倫太郎
Don't Lose Your Head!
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
The Innocent Game
満天のゴール
トクじい
September 1923
Teiji Igusa
Goal of the Sky
Ripples
Taro Kadokura
Hard Days
Yutaka Senba
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
Fujiwara no Michinaga
Do Unto Others
Shosaku Shiba
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
regular customer
Shylock's Children
Hajime Sawazaki
Egoist
Yoshio Saito
Umami
Salaryman
Get Ready!
Hiroshi Bojo
A Man
Norio Komiura
The Setting Sun
Dr. Miyake
Japanese Style
Hifuji Umekoshi
No Place to Go
Bomber
Goodbye My Dear
Hiroshi Yamawaki
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
Yotaro Befunokami
混声の森
Lost Man Found
Himself
The Wandering Moon
Agata
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
老店主
Teen Regime
Washida Tsuguaki
Ten Count to the Future
Kenzo Ashiya
Noise
Shoji
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Shop Owner
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
old man
Utsusemi no mori
Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
The Master Plan
Kawabata
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
Kawabata
てにあまる
Underdog: Part One
Sakuro
Underdog: Part Two
Sakuro
Wonderful Paradise
Homeless
Living in the Sky
Concierge Kondo
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
I Never Shot Anyone
Takashi Renjo
Stardust over the Town
Kumabe Rokuzo
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
The Promised Land
Goro Fujiki
Show Me the Way to the Station
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi
Banjo no Himawari
It Feels So Good
Kenji's Father (voice)
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Urakusai
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
铃本茂树
Godot of the Emotos
In Hand
Castle of Sand
Chiyokichi
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
Oz Land
Boss
Good Doctor
Akira Shiga
Recall
Seiji Nomura
Shoplifters
Yoritsugu Kawado
Color Me True
Tadashi Honda
Evil and The Mask
Detective Aida
Segodon
Ryu Samin
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
Home Sweet Tokyo
[Ramen Shop Owner]
Mukoku
Seppo Mitsumura
Neko Ninja
Kariyazaki
Lu Over the Wall
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
The Dog Bridegroom
Kenkichi Okumura
Frankenstein's Love
Tsurumaru
Survival Family
Sasaki Shigeomi
Random Lives
Hanamura
A Life
Danjo Toranosuke
Silver and Gold
Hitoshi Kuramae
Shippu Rondo
Masaomi Togo
Sniper
Tatsuyuki Miyata
Black Widow Business
Jun Sakurada
A Grain of Wheat
Honda
Shin Godzilla
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
The Mohican Comes Home
Osamu Tamura
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Sfar
Arashi no Namida
Love That Makes You Cry
Masahiko Hayashida
A Living Promise
Zenzo Takeda
Journey to the Shore
Hoshitani
The Big Bee
Murofushi
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Kumaji Ueda
Vampire in Love
Sojiro
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
Priest Soutatsu
Living Rights
Present for You
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
A House on a Hill
Yoshitarō Terashima
0.5 mm
Takeshi Sasaki
Cold
Jin Ichinose
Time Trip App
Ryuzo Yanagita
Oh! Father
Hayashi Tomita
Wood Job!
Toshiro Yamane
The Long Goodbye
Heizo Harada
A Woman from Ashio
Sleeping Forest
Daisuke Ota
Olympic Ransom
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
The Partner
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Unforgiven
Kingo Baba
Ask This of Rikyu
Hanzawa Naoki
Keiji Minobe
The War and a Woman
client of woman
Kumokiri Nizaemon
Yellow Elephant
Arechi
Black Kite
Kaiun
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Lawyer
Humanoid Monster, Bem
Kao no nai otoko
One Day in January
Platinum Town
The Life of Budori Gusuko
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Seijiro Nose
Folktales from Japan
A Sower of Seeds
Shuzo Morikawa
Ace Attorney
Saibancho (Judge)
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Yoneuchi
Life Back Then
Masashi Inoue
Humanoid Monster Bem
Nameless Man
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Dr. Akunomiya
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
Shogo Ooiwa
Shikei Kijun
Kyusaku Tsushima
In His Chart
Doctor
Ninja Kids!!!
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
wet guy
Postcard
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
Cast Me If You Can
Homeless guy
The Lightning Tree
Kakunoshi Enokido
Mori no Asagao
Keizukuri Hukahori
Sakurada Gate Incident
Magojiro Kaneko
Ekeb of Dekye
Soichi Yanagimachi
Heaven's Story
Souichi
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
Villain
Yoshio Ishibashi
Hutch the Honeybee
A Crowd of Three
A Lone Scalpel
Matsuo Okawa
Haru's Journey
Michio Nakai
Absolute Zero
Sosuke Kagami
After the Flowers
Soan Nagai
Golden Slumber
Hodogaya Yasushi
Yona Yona Penguin
Jii (voice)
Clouds Over the Hill
乃木知幸介
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Shotaro
April Bride
Teishi Nagashima
Rain Fall
Tatsu Ishikura
John Rabe
Matsui Iwane
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Itsuro Usui
Happy Flight
Saito
ICHI
Ties of Shooting Stars
Togami Masayuki
Teacher and Three Children
Yoshio Ichikawa
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Counselor
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
Your Friend
The Taste of Fish
Shojiro Sanada
All Around Us
kunimasa Yasuda
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Journalist
The Chasing World
Doctor
The Shadow Spirit
mimasaka koushirou
Prodigy
Hisashi Kikuna
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Haeo
Three for the Road
The Go Master
Kensaku Segoe
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
愛の流刑地
北冈耕造
Starfish Hotel
Mr. Trickster
The Happiness
Japan Sinks
Professor Fukuhara
It's Only Talk
Memories of Matsuko
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
Love and Glory
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Scrap Heaven
Detective Yabuta
Haru and Natsu
Kotaro Nakayama
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Seigo Tsuda
The Great Yokai War
Love Is Five Seven Five
Grandfather
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Yunosuke Otsuka
The Lakeside Murder Case
Tomoharu Fujima
Moon & Cherry
Sakamoto
The Motive
Yoshifumi Katakura
River of First Love
Hidejiro Tasaki
Chicken Is Barefoot
Takada Wataru Teki
Self
Drugstore Girl
Koji Nabeshima
Zebraman
Kitahara the Crab Man
Winning Pass
The Hunter and the Hunted
Neko
竜馬がゆく
Hana
Hiroshi Torigoe
Doppelgänger
Murakami
Worst by Chance
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Zatoichi
Pub Owner
Love & War of a Samurai
Farewell, Kuro
Shuzo Hanazono
Water Boys
Mama (of a bar)
Samurai Resurrection
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Teacher's suitcase
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
Owl
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
Barber's Sorrow
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Hyoue Yarikura
September 11
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
The Private Detective Mike
KT
Hiroshi Uchiyama
Prince Shotoku
Anahobe no miko
Turn
Matsubara
Waterboys
Mama
Kaza-hana
Hot Spring Inn Owner
The City of Lost Souls
Kuwata
The Whispered City
Toyohashi, sculptor
Nagisa
Priest Shinto
Another Heaven
Doctor Akagi
As the River Flows
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Tatsuo
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Matashichi
Round About Midnight
Totsuka
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
Will to Live
Doctor
Genroku Ryoran
Genshiro
Yanchakure
水嶋钦一
Love Letter
Dr. Akagi
Dr. Fuu Akagi
Body and Soul
Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
The Key
Soichiro Anzai
Abduction
Chief Superintendent Tachibana
The Eel
Tamotsu Takasaki
The Rainbow Seeker
Free and Easy 8
Yukawa
Shall We Dance?
Detective Miwa
Maborosi
Yoshihiro
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
Tokugawa Munenao
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Major Akira Yuki
The Friends
Nagatomo
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Narrator (voice)
Private Lessons II
Oba
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Manhattan Kiss
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Professor Tokichi Anayama
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Kogoro Katsura
Dance till Tomorrow
The Last Frankenstein
Prof. Sarusawa
Goodbye Mama
Taiheiki
Moronao Kô-no
Betrayal Tomorrow
Maria's Stomach
Roar of the Crowd
ホットドッグ
大田原輝
Universal Laws
Fancy Dance
Masoho's boss
Beijing Watermelon
Mr. Teramoto
Battle Heater
Riichi Hama
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Hyoma Sakaguchi
Harimao
Army Major
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Maeo
Revolver
Keisuke Mineya
The Silk Road
The Yen Family
Shinichi Amemiya
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Yakuza
The Great Department Store Robbery
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Bedtime Eyes
A Tale of Young Elopement
Matsuda
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Congratulatory Speech
Yasuhei Higashida
The Second Is a Christian
Kumashiro
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Hirofumi Maruyama
Capone Cries a Lot
Ushiemon
水曜ドラマスペシャル
Location
Konno
Make-Up
Kikuo Tsutano
Legend of the Cat Monster
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Double Bed
Tôru Yamazaki
Amagi Pass
The Man from Shimizu
Suspicion
Shigekazu Akitani
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Kondo
Lovers Lost
Ishizuka
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Detective Kuroki
Disciples of Hippocrates
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Kantarô Iwata
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Daigorô Hatayama