Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-11-03 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
에모토 아키라
Акира Эмото
柄本 明
آکیرا اموتو
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...
2003
as Pub Owner
2023
as Salaryman
2023
as Yutaka Senba
1997
as Tamotsu Takasaki
2010
2022
as Shoji
2012
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
2001
as Matsubara
2015
2009
as Tatsu Ishikura
2000
as Kuwata
2008
2010
as Yoshio Ishibashi
1999
as Tatsuo
2010
as Magojiro Kaneko
2005
as Seigo Tsuda
2003
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
2010
as Hodogaya Yasushi
1994
as Major Akira Yuki
1998
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
1995
as Yoshihiro
2008
as Doctor
2008
as Counselor
1992
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
1988
1985
as Hirofumi Maruyama
2007
as Mr. Trickster
2011
as Doctor
1992
2009
as Teishi Nagashima
2012
as Saibancho (Judge)
2011
as Dr. Akunomiya
2023
2010
as Michio Nakai
2013
as Kingo Baba
2022
as Dr. Miyake
2004
as Yoshifumi Katakura
1994
as Nagatomo
2023
as Teiji Igusa
1982
as Ishizuka
2022
as Agata
2010
as Homeless guy
2019
as (voice)
2010
as Kakunoshi Enokido
2013
as Arechi
2021
2023
as Fujiwara no Michinaga
2022
as 老店主
2013
as client of woman
1993
as Oba
2008
as Shojiro Sanada
2007
as mimasaka koushirou
2003
2002
as Hiroshi Uchiyama
2008
as Journalist
1999
as Doctor
2014
as Toshiro Yamane
2014
as Takeshi Sasaki
2009
as Matsui Iwane
1979
as Daigorô Hatayama
2011
as Masashi Inoue
2014
as Hayashi Tomita
2010
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
2004
as Tomoharu Fujima
2003
as Shuzo Hanazono
2002
2023
as Hajime Sawazaki
1991
as Prof. Sarusawa
2000
as Artist
2006
2008
as kunimasa Yasuda
2011
2013
2006
as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
2023
as regular customer
2004
as Hidejiro Tasaki
2007
as Kensaku Segoe
2007
as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
2010
as Soan Nagai
1997
1989
as Mr. Teramoto
2006
2007
as Haeo
2014
as Jin Ichinose
2004
as Sakamoto
2006
2014
as Ryuzo Yanagita
2012
as Kao no nai otoko
2009
as Itsuro Usui
2010
as Matsuo Okawa
2005
as Detective Yabuta
2010
as Souichi
1989
as Masoho's boss
2015
as Hoshitani
2015
as Sojiro
2023
as Yoshio Saito
2023
as Taro Kadokura
2014
as Yoshitarō Terashima
2014
as Daisuke Ota
1999
as Totsuka
1998
2023
as Shosaku Shiba
2015
as Priest Soutatsu
1988
as Yakuza
1985
as Ushiemon
2022
2000
as Priest
2025
2004
as Koji Nabeshima
1981
as Detective Kuroki
2016
as Osamu Tamura
2015
as Murofushi
2016
as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
1990
1985
as Kumashiro
1993
as Narrator (voice)
2024
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
2003
as Murakami
2016
as Jun Sakurada
1989
as Riichi Hama
1989
as Hyoma Sakaguchi
1982
as Kondo
2003
as Hiroshi Torigoe
1988
as Shinichi Amemiya
2015
as Kumaji Ueda
2016
as Masaomi Togo
2011
1989
as Army Major
2024
as Teacher
2001
as Hot Spring Inn Owner
2017
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
1984
as Konno
2001
as Mama
2017
as Seppo Mitsumura
2016
as Zenzo Takeda
1988
as Keisuke Mineya
2017
as Hanamura
1982
as Shigekazu Akitani
1983
as Tôru Yamazaki
2018
as Tadashi Honda
2008
as Yoshio Ichikawa
2004
as Neko
2016
as Honda
1989
as Maeo
1996
as Yukawa
2000
as Doctor Akagi
2018
as Detective Aida
2011
as Kyusaku Tsushima
2018
as Yoritsugu Kawado
2017
as Kariyazaki
2018
as Seiji Nomura
2005
as Grandfather
1987
2002
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
2019
as Urakusai
1991
1987
as Matsuda
2016
as Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016
as Sasaki Shigeomi
2009
as Jii (voice)
1979
as Kantarô Iwata
2019
as Chiyokichi
2012
as Shuzo Morikawa
2018
as Boss
2019
as Toichi
2019
as Goro Fujiki
2004
1997
2012
as Seijiro Nose
1997
as Soichiro Anzai
1990
1999
1996
as Detective Miwa
1984
as Kikuo Tsutano
1985
as Yasuhei Higashida
2021
as Shop Owner
1983
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
2009
as Shotaro
2020
as Concierge Kondo
2020
as Sakuro
2008
as Saito
2020
as Kumabe Rokuzo
2004
as Kitahara the Crab Man
2003
as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
2021
as old man
2019
as Kenji's Father (voice)
2017
as Kenkichi Okumura
2005
as Yunosuke Otsuka
2021
as Kawabata
2020
as Takashi Renjo
2020
as Homeless
1991
as Kogoro Katsura
2022
as Norio Komiura
2007
as Hisashi Kikuna
2025
as Yaichi Katano
2021
as Police Inspector kariya shinichi
2021
as Old Man
2003
as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
1983
2004
as Self
2020
as Sakuro
1993
as Director
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