Actor · Acting

Akira Emoto

Born 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 305

Kyoto Hippocrates

Convenience Store Kyodai

as Shohei Umeda

無垢なる証人

as Hiroki Oyagi

ちるらん新撰組鎮魂歌

as 老年期の永倉新八

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

as Kikuo Hasegawa

The Final Piece

as Motoji Kanesaki

The Way of The Prison Guard

The Boy and the Dog

as Yaichi Katano

The God of Curling

as Susumu Komiyama

Shinjuku Field Hospital

as Keisuke Takamine

JK to Roppozensho

as 桜木倫太郎

Don't Lose Your Head!

as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu

The Innocent Game

満天のゴール

as トクじい

Goal of the Sky

as Taro Kadokura

as Yutaka Senba

as Fujiwara no Michinaga

as Shosaku Shiba

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

as regular customer

Shylock's Children

as Hajime Sawazaki

as Yoshio Saito

as Hiroshi Bojo

as Norio Komiura

The Setting Sun

as Hifuji Umekoshi

Goodbye My Dear

as Hiroshi Yamawaki

The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors

as Yotaro Befunokami

Barber Shop with a View of the Sea

as Washida Tsuguaki

Ten Count to the Future

as Kenzo Ashiya

Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses

as 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

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Utsusemi no mori

as Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi

The Master Plan

Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later

てにあまる

Underdog: Part One

Underdog: Part Two

Wonderful Paradise

Living in the Sky

as Concierge Kondo

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity

I Never Shot Anyone

as Takashi Renjo

Stardust over the Town

as Kumabe Rokuzo

Finding Light at the Darkness Festival

The Promised Land

Show Me the Way to the Station

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Banjo no Himawari

It Feels So Good

as Kenji's Father (voice)

Iwane: Sword of Serenity

Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation

as 铃本茂树

Godot of the Emotos

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

as Seiji Nomura

as Yoritsugu Kawado

as Tadashi Honda

Evil and The Mask

as Detective Aida

Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~

Home Sweet Tokyo

as [Ramen Shop Owner]

as Seppo Mitsumura

Lu Over the Wall

as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

The Dog Bridegroom

as Kenkichi Okumura

Frankenstein's Love

Survival Family

as Sasaki Shigeomi

as Danjo Toranosuke

Silver and Gold

as Hitoshi Kuramae

as Masaomi Togo

as Tatsuyuki Miyata

Black Widow Business

as Jun Sakurada

A Grain of Wheat

as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

The Mohican Comes Home

as Osamu Tamura

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Arashi no Namida

Love That Makes You Cry

as Masahiko Hayashida

A Living Promise

as Zenzo Takeda

Journey to the Shore

The Pearls of the Stone Man

Vampire in Love

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho

as Priest Soutatsu

Present for You

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

A House on a Hill

as Yoshitarō Terashima

as Takeshi Sasaki

as Jin Ichinose

as Ryuzo Yanagita

as Hayashi Tomita

as Toshiro Yamane

The Long Goodbye

as Heizo Harada

A Woman from Ashio

Sleeping Forest

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

as Ōkuma Shigenobu

Ask This of Rikyu

as Keiji Minobe

The War and a Woman

as client of woman

Kumokiri Nizaemon

Yellow Elephant

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Humanoid Monster, Bem

as Kao no nai otoko

One Day in January

The Life of Budori Gusuko

as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

as Seijiro Nose

Folktales from Japan

A Sower of Seeds

as Shuzo Morikawa

as Saibancho (Judge)

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

as Masashi Inoue

Humanoid Monster Bem

as Nameless Man

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

as Dr. Akunomiya

HUNTER - Women After Reward Money

as Kyusaku Tsushima

A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip

as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law

Cast Me If You Can

as Homeless guy

The Lightning Tree

as Kakunoshi Enokido

as Keizukuri Hukahori

Sakurada Gate Incident

as Magojiro Kaneko

as Soichi Yanagimachi

Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka

as Yoshio Ishibashi

Hutch the Honeybee

A Crowd of Three

as Matsuo Okawa

as Michio Nakai

as Sosuke Kagami

After the Flowers

as Hodogaya Yasushi

Yona Yona Penguin

Clouds Over the Hill

as 乃木知幸介

Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha

as Teishi Nagashima

as Tatsu Ishikura

as Matsui Iwane

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Ties of Shooting Stars

as Togami Masayuki

Teacher and Three Children

as Yoshio Ichikawa

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

The Cycling Genius Is Coming!

The Taste of Fish

as Shojiro Sanada

as kunimasa Yasuda

The Most Beautiful Night In The World

The Chasing World

The Shadow Spirit

as mimasaka koushirou

as Hisashi Kikuna

Life Can Be So Wonderful

Three for the Road

as Kensaku Segoe

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic

愛の流刑地

as 北冈耕造

as Mr. Trickster

as Professor Fukuhara

Memories of Matsuko

as Tsunehiro Kawajiri

Tokumei! Keiji Dongame

as Hideyoshi Toyotomi

as Detective Yabuta

as Kotaro Nakayama

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

The Great Yokai War

Love Is Five Seven Five

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

as Yunosuke Otsuka

The Lakeside Murder Case

as Tomoharu Fujima

as Yoshifumi Katakura

River of First Love

as Hidejiro Tasaki

Chicken Is Barefoot

Takada Wataru Teki

as Koji Nabeshima

as Kitahara the Crab Man

The Hunter and the Hunted

竜馬がゆく

as Hiroshi Torigoe

Worst by Chance

as Shigeharu Kaneshiro

Love & War of a Samurai

as Shuzo Hanazono

as Mama (of a bar)

Samurai Resurrection

as Nobutsuna Matsudaira

Teacher's suitcase

as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Barber's Sorrow

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

as Hyoue Yarikura

as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

The Private Detective Mike

as Hiroshi Uchiyama

as Anahobe no miko

as Hot Spring Inn Owner

The City of Lost Souls

The Whispered City

as Toyohashi, sculptor

as Priest Shinto

as Doctor Akagi

As the River Flows

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

Round About Midnight

Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai

as 水嶋钦一

as Dr. Fuu Akagi

as Soichiro Anzai

as Chief Superintendent Tachibana

as Tamotsu Takasaki

The Rainbow Seeker

Free and Easy 8

Shall We Dance?

as Detective Miwa

Eighth Shogun Yoshimune

as Tokugawa Munenao

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

as Major Akira Yuki

I Can Hear the Duck Singing

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

as Narrator (voice)

Private Lessons II

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

as Professor Tokichi Anayama

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

as Kogoro Katsura

Dance till Tomorrow

The Last Frankenstein

as Prof. Sarusawa

as Moronao Kô-no

Betrayal Tomorrow

Maria's Stomach

Roar of the Crowd

ホットドッグ

as 大田原輝

as Masoho's boss

Beijing Watermelon

as Mr. Teramoto

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

as Hyoma Sakaguchi

Mottomo Abunai Deka

as Keisuke Mineya

as Shinichi Amemiya

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

The Great Department Store Robbery

The Heartbreak Yakuza

A Tale of Young Elopement

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Congratulatory Speech

as Yasuhei Higashida

The Second Is a Christian

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

as Hirofumi Maruyama

Capone Cries a Lot

水曜ドラマスペシャル

as Kikuo Tsutano

Legend of the Cat Monster

as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura

as Tôru Yamazaki

The Man from Shimizu

as Shigekazu Akitani

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

as Detective Kuroki

Disciples of Hippocrates

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

as Kantarô Iwata

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again

as Daigorô Hatayama