Akira Emoto
male
Born on November 03, 1948 (77 years old)
From Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Known for 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.
Cast Credits
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
Umami
as
Salaryman
2023
Hard Days
as
Yutaka Senba
2023
Goal of the Sky
2023
September 1923
as
Teiji Igusa
2023
Touken Ranbu 2
as
Fujiwara no Michinaga
2023
The Innocent Game
2023
Shylock's Children
as
Hajime Sawazaki
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
as
regular customer
2023
Egoist
as
Yoshio Saito
2023
Ripples
as
Taro Kadokura
2023
Do Unto Others
as
Shosaku Shiba
2023
満天のゴール
as
トクじい
2023
Get Ready!
as
Hiroshi Bojo
2023
- 2022
Noise
as
Shoji
2022
The Setting Sun
as
Dr. Miyake
2022
Wandering
as
Agata
2022
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
as
老店主
2022
No Place to Go
as
Bomber
2022
A Man
as
Norio Komiura
2022
Ten Count to the Future
as
Kenzo Ashiya
2022
Teen Regime
as
Washida Tsuguaki
2022
混声の森
2022
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
as
Yotaro Befunokami
2022
Goodbye My Dear
as
Hiroshi Yamawaki
2022
Japanese Style
as
Hifuji Umekoshi
2022
Lost Man Found
as
Himself
2022
- 2021
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as
Shop Owner
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as
old man
2021
The End of the Tiny World
as
Kawabata
2021
空蝉の森
as
Police Inspector kariya shinichi
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as
Old Man
2021
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
as
Kawabata
2021
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
as
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
2021
てにあまる
2021
- 2020
- 2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as
(voice)
2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
as
Urakusai
2019
Castle of Sand
as
Chiyokichi
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as
Toichi
2019
The Promised Land
as
Goro Fujiki
2019
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Godot of the Emotos
2019
It Feels So Good
as
Kenji's Father (voice)
2019
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
Banjo no Himawari
2019
In Hand
2019
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
as
铃本茂树
2019
- 2018
- 2017
Lu Over the Wall
as
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
2017
Mukoku
as
Seppo Mitsumura
2017
Random Lives
as
Hanamura
2017
Neko Ninja
as
Kariyazaki
2017
Survival Family
as
Sasaki Shigeomi
2017
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
The Dog Bridegroom
as
Kenkichi Okumura
2017
Home Sweet Tokyo
as
[Ramen Shop Owner]
2017
A Life
as
Danjo Toranosuke
2017
Frankenstein's Love
as
Tsurumaru
2017
Silver and Gold
as
Hitoshi Kuramae
2017
- 2016
The Mohican Comes Home
as
Osamu Tamura
2016
Shin Godzilla
as
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
2016
Black Widow Business
as
Jun Sakurada
2016
Shippu Rondo
as
Masaomi Togo
2016
A Living Promise
as
Zenzo Takeda
2016
A Grain of Wheat
as
Honda
2016
Sniper
as
Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016
Love That Makes You Cry
as
Masahiko Hayashida
2016
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
as
Sfar
2016
Arashi no Namida
2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
In His Chart
as
Doctor
2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
as
Dr. Akunomiya
2011
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as
Yoneuchi
2011
Life Back Then
as
Masashi Inoue
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
as
wet guy
2011
Shikei Kijun
as
Kyusaku Tsushima
2011
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
as
Shogo Ooiwa
2011
Humanoid Monster Bem
as
Nameless Man
2011
- 2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
Villain
as
Yoshio Ishibashi
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident
as
Magojiro Kaneko
2010
Golden Slumber
as
Hodogaya Yasushi
2010
Haru's Journey
as
Michio Nakai
2010
Cast Me If You Can
as
Homeless guy
2010
The Lightning Tree
as
Kakunoshi Enokido
2010
Postcard
as
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
2010
After the Flowers
as
Soan Nagai
2010
A Lone Scalpel
as
Matsuo Okawa
2010
Heaven's Story
as
Souichi
2010
Ekeb of Dekye
as
Soichi Yanagimachi
2010
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
Absolute Zero
as
Sosuke Kagami
2010
Mori no Asagao
as
Keizukuri Hukahori
2010
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
- 2009
- 2008
ICHI
2008
The Chasing World
as
Doctor
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
as
Counselor
2008
The Taste of Fish
as
Shojiro Sanada
2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
as
Journalist
2008
All Around Us
as
kunimasa Yasuda
2008
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
Teacher and Three Children
as
Yoshio Ichikawa
2008
Happy Flight
as
Saito
2008
Ties of Shooting Stars
as
Togami Masayuki
2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
The Motive
as
Yoshifumi Katakura
2004
The Lakeside Murder Case
as
Tomoharu Fujima
2004
River of First Love
as
Hidejiro Tasaki
2004
Moon and Cherry
as
Sakamoto
2004
Drugstore Girl
as
Koji Nabeshima
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
as
Neko
2004
Winning Pass
2004
Zebraman
as
Kitahara the Crab Man
2004
Takada Wataru Teki
as
Self
2004
竜馬がゆく
2004
- 2003
Zatoichi
as
Pub Owner
2003
Worst by Chance
as
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
2003
Owl
2003
Farewell, Kuro
as
Shuzo Hanazono
2003
Doppelganger
as
Murakami
2003
Hana
as
Hiroshi Torigoe
2003
Teacher's suitcase
as
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
2003
Samurai Resurrection
as
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
2003
Water Boys
as
Mama (of a bar)
2003
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- 1993
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- 1988
- 1987
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980
- 1979
