Akira Emoto

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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.

Filmography

• Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder - (2026)
• Kyoto Hippocrates (2026)
• The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat (2026)
• One Last Throw (2025)
• Rental Family (2025)
• The Final Piece (2025)
• The Way of The Prison Guard (2025)
• The Boy and the Dog (2025)
• Samurai Fury (2025)
• The God of Curling (2024)
• Maru (2024)
• Don't Lose Your Head! (2024)
• The Innocent Game (2023)
• September 1923 (2023)
• Goal of the Sky (2023)
• Ripples (2023)
• Hard Days (2023)
• Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn- (2023)
• Do Unto Others (2023)
• Yudo (2023)
• Shylock's Children (2023)
• Egoist (2023)
• Umami (2023)
• A Man (2022)
• The Setting Sun (2022)
• No Place to Go (2022)
• The Wandering Moon (2022)
• Barber Shop with a View of the Sea (2022)
• Noise (2022)
• Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun (2021)
• Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai (2021)
• 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻― (2021)
• The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
• Utsusemi no mori (2021)
• The Master Plan (2021)
• Underdog: Part One (2020)
• Underdog: Part Two (2020)
• Wonderful Paradise (2020)
• Living in the Sky (2020)
• Nosari: Impermanent Eternity (2020)
• I Never Shot Anyone (2020)
• Stardust over the Town (2020)
• Finding Light at the Darkness Festival (2019)
• The Promised Land (2019)
• Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
• They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
• It Feels So Good (2019)
• Iwane: Sword of Serenity (2019)
• Godot of the Emotos (2019)
• Castle of Sand (2019)
• BON-UTA, A Song from Home (2019)
• Oz Land (2018)
• Recall (2018)
• Shoplifters (2018)
• Color Me True (2018)
• Evil and The Mask (2018)
• Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~ (2017)
• Mukoku (2017)
• Neko Ninja (2017)
• Lu Over the Wall (2017)
• The Dog Bridegroom (2017)
• Survival Family (2017)
• Random Lives (2017)
• Shippu Rondo (2016)
• Sniper (2016)
• Black Widow Business (2016)
• A Grain of Wheat (2016)
• Shin Godzilla (2016)
• The Mohican Comes Home (2016)
• A Living Promise (2016)
• Journey to the Shore (2015)
• The Big Bee (2015)
• The Pearls of the Stone Man (2015)
• Vampire in Love (2015)
• GARO: Gold Storm Flight (2015)
• Living Rights (2015)
• Present for You (2015)
• A House on a Hill (2014)
• 0.5 mm (2014)
• Cold (2014)
• Time Trip App (2014)
• Oh! Father (2014)
• Wood Job! (2014)
• Sleeping Forest (2014)
• Fly, Dakota, Fly! (2013)
• The Partner (2013)
• Unforgiven (2013)
• Ask This of Rikyu (2013)
• The War and a Woman (2013)
• Yellow Elephant (2013)
• Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark (2013)
• Humanoid Monster, Bem (2012)
• One Day in January (2012)
• The Life of Budori Gusuko (2012)
• Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
• A Sower of Seeds (2012)
• Ace Attorney (2012)
• Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
• Life Back Then (2011)
• Karate-Robo Zaborgar (2011)
• Shikei Kijun (2011)
• In His Chart (2011)
• Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
• A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip (2011)
• Postcard (2010)
• Cast Me If You Can (2010)
• The Lightning Tree (2010)
• Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)
• Ekeb of Dekye (2010)
• Heaven's Story (2010)
• Villain (2010)
• Hutch the Honeybee (2010)
• A Crowd of Three (2010)
• A Lone Scalpel (2010)
• Haru's Journey (2010)
• After the Flowers (2010)
• Golden Slumber (2010)
• Yona Yona Penguin (2009)
• Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha (2009)
• April Bride (2009)
• Rain Fall (2009)
• John Rabe (2009)
• Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)
• Happy Flight (2008)
• ICHI (2008)
• Teacher and Three Children (2008)
• Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
• The Cycling Genius Is Coming! (2008)
• Your Friend (2008)
• The Taste of Fish (2008)
• All Around Us (2008)
• The Most Beautiful Night In The World (2008)
• The Chasing World (2008)
• The Shadow Spirit (2007)
• Prodigy (2007)
• Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)
• Three for the Road (2007)
• The Go Master (2007)
• Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
• Starfish Hotel (2007)
• The Happiness (2006)
• The Summer of Stickleback (2006)
• Japan Sinks (2006)
• It's Only Talk (2006)
• Memories of Matsuko (2006)
• Scrap Heaven (2005)
• The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
• The Great Yokai War (2005)
• For the coming day (2005)
• Love Is Five Seven Five (2005)
• Tetsujin 28: The Movie (2005)
• The Lakeside Murder Case (2005)
• Moon & Cherry (2004)
• The Motive (2004)
• River of First Love (2004)
• Chicken Is Barefoot (2004)
• Takada Wataru Teki (2004)
• Drugstore Girl (2004)
• Zebraman (2004)
• Winning Pass (2004)
• The Hunter and the Hunted (2004)
• Hana (2003)
• Doppelgänger (2003)
• Worst by Chance (2003)
• Zatoichi (2003)
• Farewell, Kuro (2003)
• Samurai Resurrection (2003)
• Teacher's suitcase (2003)
• Owl (2003)
• Barber's Sorrow (2002)
• September 11 (2002)
• KT (2002)
• Turn (2001)
• Waterboys (2001)
• Kaza-hana (2001)
• The City of Lost Souls (2000)
• The Whispered City (2000)
• Nagisa (2000)
• Another Heaven (2000)
• As the River Flows (2000)
• Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999)
• The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe (1999)
• Round About Midnight (1999)
• Will to Live (1999)
• Love Letter (1998)
• Dr. Akagi (1998)
• Body and Soul (1997)
• The Key (1997)
• Abduction (1997)
• The Eel (1997)
• The Rainbow Seeker (1996)
• Free and Easy 8 (1996)
• Shall We Dance? (1996)
• Maborosi (1995)
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
• The Friends (1994)
• I Can Hear the Duck Singing (1993)
• When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang (1993)
• Private Lessons II (1993)
• Sky Cannot Be This Blue (1993)
• Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 (1992)
• Manhattan Kiss (1992)
• Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
• A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era (1991)
• Dance till Tomorrow (1991)
• The Last Frankenstein (1991)
• Goodbye Mama (1991)
• Betrayal Tomorrow (1990)
• Maria's Stomach (1990)
• Roar of the Crowd (1990)
• Universal Laws (1990)
• Fancy Dance (1989)
• Beijing Watermelon (1989)
• Battle Heater (1989)
• Tora-san Goes to Vienna (1989)
• Harimao (1989)
• Mottomo Abunai Deka (1989)
• あじさい色のレディ (1988)
• Revolver (1988)
• The Silk Road (1988)
• The Yen Family (1988)
• Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
• The Great Department Store Robbery (1987)
• The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987)
• Bedtime Eyes (1987)
• A Tale of Young Elopement (1987)
• Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)
• Congratulatory Speech (1985)
• The Second Is a Christian (1985)
• I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident (1985)
• Capone Cries a Lot (1985)
• Location (1984)
• Make-Up (1984)
• Legend of the Cat Monster (1983)
• Double Bed (1983)
• Amagi Pass (1983)
• The Man from Shimizu (1982)
• Suspicion (1982)
• Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san (1982)
• Lovers Lost (1982)
• Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
• Disciples of Hippocrates (1980)
• Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman (1979)
• Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie (1979)
• Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again (1979)