Akira Emoto
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.
As actor 310
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
Absolute Zero
2010
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Segodon
2018
Yanchakure
1998
Rental Family
2025
Shin Godzilla
2016
Shoplifters
2018
Scandal Eve
2025
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
Folktales from Japan
2012
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Zatoichi
2003
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
Get Ready!
2023
Owl
2003
In Hand
2019
Ten Count to the Future
2022
Lost Man Found
2022
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011
Silver and Gold
2017
Arashi no Namida
2016
Good Doctor
2018
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
Water Boys
2003
It Feels So Good
2019
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Taiheiki
1991
愛の流刑地
2007
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
The Eel
1997
Umami
2023
Frankenstein's Love
2017
Love and Glory
2006
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Black Kite
2013
Lu Over the Wall
2017
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
Memories of Matsuko
2006
Shall We Dance?
1996
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
ICHI
2008
JK to Roppozensho
2024
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Samurai Fury
2025
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
Waterboys
2001
Wood Job!
2014
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995
September 11
2002
A Life: A Love
2017
Double Bed
1983
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026
A Woman from Ashio
2014
John Rabe
2009
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
Haru and Natsu
2005
Doppelgänger
2003
Maborosi
1995
Rain Fall
2009
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011
Teen Regime
2022
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
Japanese Style
2022
Worst by Chance
2003
Hard Days
2023
Journey to the Shore
2015
The Friends
1994
Nagisa
2000
The War and a Woman
2013
The City of Lost Souls
2000
ホットドッグ
1990
Ace Attorney
2012
Color Me True
2018
The Wandering Moon
2022
The Long Goodbye
2014
The Great Yokai War
2005
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
Survival Family
2017
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Unforgiven
2013
Platinum Town
2012
無垢なる証人
2026
Goodbye My Dear
2022
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
April Bride
2009
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
As the River Flows
2000
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
Egoist
2023
Happy Flight
2008
September 1923
2023
The Final Piece
2025
The Key
1997
The Master Plan
2021
Japan Sinks
2006
A Man
2022
Private Lessons II
1993
Mukoku
2017
Amagi Pass
1983
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
Golden Slumber
2010
Yudo
2023
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Mori no Asagao
2010
竜馬がゆく
2004
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Lovers Lost
1982
Suspicion
1982
Olympic Ransom
2013
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
Dr. Akagi
1998
Villain
2010
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Random Lives
2017
Zebraman
2004
Body and Soul
1997
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
Ripples
2023
Kaza-hana
2001
No Place to Go
2022
Fancy Dance
1989
Prince Shotoku
2001
Another Heaven
2000
Haru's Journey
2010
Recall
2018
Beijing Watermelon
1989
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
0.5 mm
2014
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
KT
2002
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Teacher's suitcase
2003
The Yen Family
1988
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
Shylock's Children
2023
Life Back Then
2011
Maru
2024
The Silk Road
1988
Time Trip App
2014
Banjo no Himawari
2019
Underdog: Part One
2020
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
Neko Ninja
2017
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Drugstore Girl
2004
混声の森
2022
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Do Unto Others
2023
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
The Whispered City
2000
Noise
2022
The Big Bee
2015
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015
The Boy and the Dog
2025
The Chasing World
2008
疑惑
2012
It's Only Talk
2006
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
A Lone Scalpel
2010
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Living in the Sky
2020
Present for You
2015
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Yellow Elephant
2013
The Innocent Game
2023
A Crowd of Three
2010
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
The Promised Land
2019
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Black Widow Business
2016
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Abduction
1997
Free and Easy 8
1996
Oh! Father
2014
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
2015
Love Letter
1998
Sleeping Forest
2014
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
2023
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Round About Midnight
1999
After the Flowers
2010
Battle Heater
1989
Family Court Judge
1993
Manhattan Kiss
1992
All Around Us
2008
Oz Land
2018
Will to Live
1999
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Harimao
1989
The Lightning Tree
2010
Heaven's Story
2010
The Taste of Fish
2008
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
The Go Master
2007
The Motive
2004
River of First Love
2004
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
The Second Is a Christian
1985
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
てにあまる
2021
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
Underdog: Part Two
2020
Shippu Rondo
2016
Scrap Heaven
2005
Revolver
1988
A Living Promise
2016
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
Your Friend
2008
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
Evil and The Mask
2018
Location
1984
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Postcard
2010
Utsusemi no mori
2021
Goal of the Sky
2023
Moon & Cherry
2004
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
Three for the Road
2007
The Setting Sun
2022
Barber's Sorrow
2002
Congratulatory Speech
1985
A Sower of Seeds
2012
The Shadow Spirit
2007
Prodigy
2007
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
A Grain of Wheat
2016
Teacher and Three Children
2008
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
The Partner
2013
Wonderful Paradise
2020
Stardust over the Town
2020
In His Chart
2011
One Last Throw
2025
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Roar of the Crowd
1990
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
For the coming day
2005
Winning Pass
2004
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
Make-Up
1984
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Vampire in Love
2015
Shikei Kijun
2011
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
A House on a Hill
2014
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Sniper
2016
Castle of Sand
2019
あじさい色のレディ
1988
The Man from Shimizu
1982
The Last Frankenstein
1991
Turn
2001
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
One Day in January
2012
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Cast Me If You Can
2010
満天のゴール
2023
The Happiness
2006
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Goodbye Mama
1991
Starfish Hotel
2007
Maria's Stomach
1990
Living Rights
2015
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
The God of Curling
2024
Hana
2003
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
Godot of the Emotos
2019
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Cold
2014
Universal Laws
1990
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
