Akira Emoto
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.
310 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 310
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
Absolute Zero
2010
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Zatoichi
2003
Segodon
2018
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
Shin Godzilla
2016
Olympic Ransom
2013
Lost Man Found
2022
Rental Family
2025
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
Ten Count to the Future
2022
It Feels So Good
2019
Water Boys
2003
竜馬がゆく
2004
A Life
2017
Good Doctor
2018
Shoplifters
2018
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011
Get Ready!
2023
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
In Hand
2019
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
The Long Goodbye
2014
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
Black Kite
2013
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
JK to Roppozensho
2024
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Haru and Natsu
2005
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011
Frankenstein's Love
2017
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Worst by Chance
2003
Yanchakure
1998
Love and Glory
2006
Goodbye My Dear
2022
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
Samurai Fury
2025
Taiheiki
1991
Folktales from Japan
2012
Silver and Gold
2017
Teen Regime
2022
The Eel
1997
Memories of Matsuko
2006
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
Platinum Town
2012
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Japan Sinks
2006
Mori no Asagao
2010
Lovers Lost
1982
ICHI
2008
Prince Shotoku
2001
The Shadow Spirit
2007
混声の森
2022
Lu Over the Wall
2017
Survival Family
2017
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021
Color Me True
2018
Double Bed
1983
Japanese Style
2022
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
Golden Slumber
2010
Banjo no Himawari
2019
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Arashi no Namida
2016
Ace Attorney
2012
Happy Flight
2008
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995
Maborosi
1995
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
Villain
2010
A Man
2022
The Key
1997
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
The Great Yokai War
2005
The Final Piece
2025
Journey to the Shore
2015
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Waterboys
2001
Another Heaven
2000
Underdog: Part One
2020
The Go Master
2007
てにあまる
2021
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
Wandering
2022
Egoist
2023
Shall We Dance?
1996
Doppelgänger
2003
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
The War and a Woman
2013
Hard Days
2023
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Recall
2018
Owl
2003
Family Court Judge
1993
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
Do Unto Others
2023
The Second Is a Christian
1985
満天のゴール
2023
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Rain Fall
2009
The Whispered City
2000
The Boy and the Dog
2025
The Lightning Tree
2010
Round About Midnight
1999
愛の流刑地
2007
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Dr. Akagi
1998
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
April Bride
2009
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
A Living Promise
2016
Unforgiven
2013
Noise
2022
Amagi Pass
1983
The Promised Land
2019
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
無垢なる証人
2026
The City of Lost Souls
2000
John Rabe
2009
The Yen Family
1988
Scandal Eve
2025
Zebraman
2004
After the Flowers
2010
Postcard
2010
Mukoku
2017
A Crowd of Three
2010
Vampire in Love
2015
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Sleeping Forest
2014
Wood Job!
2014
Yellow Elephant
2013
Evil and The Mask
2018
Time Trip App
2014
No Place to Go
2022
Life Back Then
2011
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
The Silk Road
1988
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
The Motive
2004
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
Castle of Sand
2019
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026
Prodigy
2007
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
The Taste of Fish
2008
A House on a Hill
2014
Nagisa
2000
Suspicion
1982
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Turn
2001
Black Widow Business
2016
Fancy Dance
1989
September 11
2002
All Around Us
2008
Sniper
2016
Love Letter
1998
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
The Master Plan
2021
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
Goodbye Mama
1991
Maru
2024
Underdog: Part Two
2020
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
Touken Ranbu 2
2023
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
Abduction
1997
Haru's Journey
2010
Living in the Sky
2020
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
September 1923
2023
Ripples
2023
Free and Easy 8
1996
ホットドッグ
1990
The Chasing World
2008
Body and Soul
1997
Shikei Kijun
2011
Teacher's suitcase
2003
Congratulatory Speech
1985
Beijing Watermelon
1989
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Heaven's Story
2010
Location
1984
Will to Live
1999
KT
2002
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
The Friends
1994
River of First Love
2004
Kaza-hana
2001
0.5 mm
2014
In His Chart
2011
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
Oz Land
2018
Private Lessons II
1993
For the coming day
2005
Living Rights
2015
It's Only Talk
2006
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Scrap Heaven
2005
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
Moon & Cherry
2004
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
A Sower of Seeds
2012
疑惑
2012
Roar of the Crowd
1990
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
The Innocent Game
2023
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Make-Up
1984
The Big Bee
2015
The Setting Sun
2022
Shippu Rondo
2016
Battle Heater
1989
Shylock's Children
2023
Umami
2023
Oh! Father
2014
Maria's Stomach
1990
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Utsusemi no mori
2021
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
The Happiness
2006
Barber's Sorrow
2002
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Cast Me If You Can
2010
The Man from Shimizu
1982
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Stardust over the Town
2020
Winning Pass
2004
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
Wonderful Paradise
2020
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
One Last Throw
2025
Manhattan Kiss
1992
Teacher and Three Children
2008
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Starfish Hotel
2007
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
Neko Ninja
2017
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Your Friend
2008
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
Revolver
1988
The Last Frankenstein
1991
Universal Laws
1990
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
One Day in January
2012
Three for the Road
2007
Hana
2003
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015
Harimao
1989
As the River Flows
2000
Cold
2014
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
A Woman from Ashio
2014
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
Present for You
2015
The Partner
2013
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
The God of Curling
2024
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Goal of the Sky
2023
Godot of the Emotos
2019
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Drugstore Girl
2004
A Grain of Wheat
2016
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Random Lives
2017
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
Rotting
2024
