Akira Emoto
Acting
1948-11-03 · 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
TheatersYamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
2026 · Movie
Theatersあなたの息子ひき出します！
2026 · Movie
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026 · Movie
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026 · Series
Innocent Witness
2026 · Series
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026 · Movie
One Last Throw
2025 · Movie
Rental Family
2025 · Movie
Scandal Eve
2025 · Series
The Final Piece
2025 · Movie
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025 · Movie
The Boy and the Dog
2025 · Movie
Samurai Fury
2025 · Movie
The God of Curling
2024 · Movie
Maru
2024 · Movie
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024 · Series
Rotting
2024 · Movie
JK to Roppozensho
2024 · Series
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024 · Movie
The Innocent Game
2023 · Movie
満天のゴール
2023 · Series
September 1923
2023 · Movie
Goal of the Sky
2023 · Movie
Ripples
2023 · Movie
Hard Days
2023 · Movie
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
2023 · Movie
Do Unto Others
2023 · Movie
Yudo
2023 · Movie
Shylock's Children
2023 · Movie
Egoist
2023 · Movie
Umami
2023 · Movie
Get Ready!
2023 · Series
A Man
2022 · Movie
The Setting Sun
2022 · Movie
Japanese Style
2022 · Series
No Place to Go
2022 · Movie
Goodbye My Dear
2022 · Series
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022 · Series
混声の森
2022 · Series
Lost Man Found
2022 · Series
The Wandering Moon
2022 · Movie
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022 · Movie
Teen Regime
2022 · Series
Ten Count to the Future
2022 · Series
Noise
2022 · Movie
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021 · Movie
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021 · Movie
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021 · Series
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021 · Movie
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021 · Movie
Utsusemi no mori
2021 · Movie
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021 · Series
The Master Plan
2021 · Movie
てにあまる
2021 · Series
Underdog: Part One
2020 · Movie
Underdog: Part Two
2020 · Movie
Wonderful Paradise
2020 · Movie
Living in the Sky
2020 · Movie
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020 · Movie
I Never Shot Anyone
2020 · Movie
Stardust over the Town
2020 · Movie
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019 · Movie
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019 · Movie
The Promised Land
2019 · Movie
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019 · Movie
Banjo no Himawari
2019 · Series
It Feels So Good
2019 · Movie
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019 · Movie
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019 · Series
Godot of the Emotos
2019 · Movie
In Hand
2019 · Series
Castle of Sand
2019 · Movie
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019 · Movie
Oz Land
2018 · Movie
Good Doctor
2018 · Series
Recall
2018 · Movie
Shoplifters
2018 · Movie
Color Me True
2018 · Movie
Evil and The Mask
2018 · Movie
Segodon
2018 · Series
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017 · Movie
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017 · Series
Mukoku
2017 · Movie
Neko Ninja
2017 · Movie
Lu Over the Wall
2017 · Movie
The Dog Bridegroom
2017 · Movie
Frankenstein's Love
2017 · Series
Survival Family
2017 · Movie
Random Lives
2017 · Movie
A Life: A Love
2017 · Series
Silver and Gold
2017 · Series
Shippu Rondo
2016 · Movie
Sniper
2016 · Movie
Black Widow Business
2016 · Movie
A Grain of Wheat
2016 · Movie
Shin Godzilla
2016 · Movie
The Mohican Comes Home
2016 · Movie
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016 · Series
Arashi no Namida
2016 · Series
Love That Makes You Cry
2016 · Series
A Living Promise
2016 · Movie
Journey to the Shore
2015 · Movie
The Big Bee
2015 · Movie
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015 · Movie
Vampire in Love
2015 · Movie
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
2015 · Movie
Living Rights
2015 · Movie
Present for You
2015 · Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · Series
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015 · Series
A House on a Hill
2014 · Movie
0.5 mm
2014 · Movie
Cold
2014 · Movie
Time Trip App
2014 · Movie
Oh! Father
2014 · Movie
Wood Job!
2014 · Movie
The Long Goodbye
2014 · Series
A Woman from Ashio
2014 · Series
Sleeping Forest
2014 · Movie
Olympic Ransom
2013 · Series
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013 · Movie
The Partner
2013 · Movie
Unforgiven
2013 · Movie
Ask This of Rikyu
2013 · Movie
Hanzawa Naoki
2013 · Series
The War and a Woman
2013 · Movie
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013 · Series
Yellow Elephant
2013 · Movie
Black Kite
2013 · Series
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013 · Movie
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012 · Movie
One Day in January
2012 · Movie
疑惑
2012 · Series
Platinum Town
2012 · Series
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012 · Movie
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012 · Movie
Folktales from Japan
2012 · Series
A Sower of Seeds
2012 · Movie
Ace Attorney
2012 · Movie
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011 · Movie
Life Back Then
2011 · Movie
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011 · Series
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011 · Movie
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011 · Series
Shikei Kijun
2011 · Movie
In His Chart
2011 · Movie
Ninja Kids!!!
2011 · Movie
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011 · Movie
Postcard
2010 · Movie
Cast Me If You Can
2010 · Movie
The Lightning Tree
2010 · Movie
Mori no Asagao
2010 · Series
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010 · Movie
Ekeb of Dekye
2010 · Movie
Heaven's Story
2010 · Movie
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010 · Series
Villain
2010 · Movie
Hutch the Honeybee
2010 · Movie
A Crowd of Three
2010 · Movie
A Lone Scalpel
2010 · Movie
Haru's Journey
2010 · Movie
Absolute Zero
2010 · Series
After the Flowers
2010 · Movie
Golden Slumber
2010 · Movie
Yona Yona Penguin
2009 · Movie
Clouds Over the Hill
2009 · Series
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009 · Movie
April Bride
2009 · Movie
Rain Fall
2009 · Movie
John Rabe
2009 · Movie
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009 · Movie
Happy Flight
2008 · Movie
ICHI
2008 · Movie
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008 · Series
Teacher and Three Children
2008 · Movie
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008 · Movie
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008 · Movie
Your Friend
2008 · Movie
All Around Us
2008 · Movie
The Taste of Fish
2008 · Movie
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008 · Movie
The Chasing World
2008 · Movie
The Shadow Spirit
2007 · Movie
Prodigy
2007 · Movie
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007 · Movie
Three for the Road
2007 · Movie
The Go Master
2007 · Movie
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007 · Movie
愛の流刑地
2007 · Series
Starfish Hotel
2007 · Movie
The Happiness
2006 · Movie
The Summer of Stickleback
2006 · Movie
Japan Sinks
2006 · Movie
It's Only Talk
2006 · Movie
Memories of Matsuko
2006 · Movie
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006 · Series
Love and Glory
2006 · Series
Scrap Heaven
2005 · Movie
Haru and Natsu
2005 · Series
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005 · Movie
The Great Yokai War
2005 · Movie
For the coming day
2005 · Movie
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005 · Movie
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005 · Movie
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005 · Movie
Moon & Cherry
2004 · Movie
The Motive
2004 · Movie
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004 · Movie
River of First Love
2004 · Movie
Takada Wataru Teki
2004 · Movie
Drugstore Girl
2004 · Movie
Zebraman
2004 · Movie
Winning Pass
2004 · Movie
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004 · Movie
竜馬がゆく
2004 · Series
Hana
2003 · Movie
Doppelgänger
2003 · Movie
Worst by Chance
2003 · Movie
Zatoichi
2003 · Movie
Love & War of a Samurai
2003 · Series
Water Boys
2003 · Series
Farewell, Kuro
2003 · Movie
Samurai Resurrection
2003 · Movie
Teacher's suitcase
2003 · Movie
Owl
2003 · Movie
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 · Series
Barber's Sorrow
2002 · Movie
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002 · Series
September 11
2002 · Movie
The Private Detective Mike
2002 · Series
KT
2002 · Movie
Prince Shotoku
2001 · Series
Turn
2001 · Movie
Waterboys
2001 · Movie
Kaza-hana
2001 · Movie
The City of Lost Souls
2000 · Movie
The Whispered City
2000 · Movie
Nagisa
2000 · Movie
As the River Flows
2000 · Movie
Another Heaven
2000 · Movie
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999 · Movie
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999 · Movie
Round About Midnight
1999 · Movie
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999 · Series
Will to Live
1999 · Movie
Genroku Ryoran
1999 · Series
Yanchakure
1998 · Series
Love Letter
1998 · Movie
Dr. Akagi
1998 · Movie
The Key
1997 · Movie
Body and Soul
1997 · Movie
Abduction
1997 · Movie
The Eel
1997 · Movie
The Rainbow Seeker
1996 · Movie
Free and Easy 8
1996 · Movie
Shall We Dance?
1996 · Movie
Maborosi
1995 · Movie
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995 · Series
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994 · Movie
The Friends
1994 · Movie
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993 · Movie
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993 · Movie
Private Lessons II
1993 · Movie
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993 · Movie
Family Court Judge
1993 · Series
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992 · Movie
Manhattan Kiss
1992 · Movie
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992 · Movie
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991 · Movie
Dance till Tomorrow
1991 · Movie
Goodbye Mama
1991 · Movie
The Last Frankenstein
1991 · Movie
Taiheiki
1991 · Series
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990 · Movie
Maria's Stomach
1990 · Movie
Roar of the Crowd
1990 · Movie
ホットドッグ
1990 · Series
Universal Laws
1990 · Movie
Fancy Dance
1989 · Movie
Beijing Watermelon
1989 · Movie
Battle Heater
1989 · Movie
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989 · Movie
Harimao
1989 · Movie
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989 · Movie
あじさい色のレディ
1988 · Movie
Revolver
1988 · Movie
あそびにおいでョ!
1988 · Series
The Silk Road
1988 · Movie
The Yen Family
1988 · Movie
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988 · Movie
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987 · Movie
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987 · Movie
Bedtime Eyes
1987 · Movie
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987 · Movie
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986 · Movie
Congratulatory Speech
1985 · Movie
The Second Is a Christian
1985 · Movie
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985 · Movie
Capone Cries a Lot
1985 · Movie
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984 · Series
Location
1984 · Movie
Make-Up
1984 · Movie
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983 · Movie
Double Bed
1983 · Movie
Amagi Pass
1983 · Movie
The Man from Shimizu
1982 · Movie
Suspicion
1982 · Movie
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 · Movie
Lovers Lost
1982 · Movie
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981 · Movie
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980 · Movie
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979 · Movie
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979 · Movie
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979 · Movie