Akira Emoto
Acting
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.
Born: November 3, 1948 · Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Filmography (147)
Rental Family
2025
The Boy and the Dog
2025
Samurai Fury
2025
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
JK to Roppozensho
2024
September 1923
2023
Ripples
2023
Hard Days
2023
Do Unto Others
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
Shylock's Children
2023
Egoist
2023
Umami
2023
Get Ready!
2023
A Man
2022
No Place to Go
2022
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
Lost Man Found
2022
Wandering
2022
Ten Count to the Future
2022
Noise
2022
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
The End of the Tiny World
2021
Underdog: Part One
2020
Living in the Sky
2020
The Promised Land
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
It Feels So Good
2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
In Hand
2019
Oz Land
2018
Good Doctor
2018
Recall
2018
Shoplifters
2018
Color Me True
2018
Segodon
2018
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
Lu Over the Wall
2017
Survival Family
2017
A Life
2017
Shin Godzilla
2016
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
Journey to the Shore
2015
The Big Bee
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Vampire in Love
2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
0.5 mm
2014
Time Trip App
2014
Wood Job!
2014
Sleeping Forest
2014
Unforgiven
2013
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Yellow Elephant
2013
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
Folktales from Japan
2012
Ace Attorney
2012
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Life Back Then
2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
In His Chart
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
Postcard
2010
The Lightning Tree
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
Villain
2010
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Haru's Journey
2010
Absolute Zero
2010
After the Flowers
2010
Golden Slumber
2010
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
Rain Fall
2009
John Rabe
2009
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
Happy Flight
2008
ICHI
2008
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
All Around Us
2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
The Chasing World
2008
Prodigy
2007
The Go Master
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Japan Sinks
2006
It's Only Talk
2006
Memories of Matsuko
2006
Love and Glory
2006
Scrap Heaven
2005
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
The Great Yokai War
2005
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
Moon & Cherry
2004
The Motive
2004
River of First Love
2004
Drugstore Girl
2004
Zebraman
2004
Doppelganger
2003
Zatoichi
2003
Water Boys
2003
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Owl
2003
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
September 11
2002
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Turn
2001
Waterboys
2001
Kaza-hana
2001
The City of Lost Souls
2000
Another Heaven
2000
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
Round About Midnight
1999
Will to Live
1999
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Dr. Akagi
1998
The Key
1997
The Eel
1997
Shall We Dance?
1996
Maborosi
1995
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
The Friends
1994
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
Taiheiki
1991
Fancy Dance
1989
The Silk Road
1988
The Yen Family
1988
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
Double Bed
1983
Amagi Pass
1983
Suspicion
1982
Lovers Lost
1982
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979