Akira Emoto

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-11-03 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Chūō, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Emoto

Biography

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...

Acting

2003

Zatoichi

as Pub Owner

2023

Umami

as Salaryman

2023

Hard Days

as Yutaka Senba

1997

The Eel

as Tamotsu Takasaki

2022

Noise

as Shoji

2012

The Life of Budori Gusuko

as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

2001

Turn

as Matsubara

2009

Rain Fall

as Tatsu Ishikura

2008

2010

Villain

as Yoshio Ishibashi

2010

Sakurada Gate Incident

as Magojiro Kaneko

2005

2003

Worst by Chance

as Shigeharu Kaneshiro

2010

Golden Slumber

as Hodogaya Yasushi

1994

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

as Major Akira Yuki

1998

Dr. Akagi

as Dr. Fuu Akagi

1995

Maborosi

as Yoshihiro

2008

1992

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

as Professor Tokichi Anayama

2007

Starfish Hotel

as Mr. Trickster

2011

In His Chart

as Doctor

2009

April Bride

as Teishi Nagashima

2012

Ace Attorney

as Saibancho (Judge)

2011

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

as Dr. Akunomiya

2010

Haru's Journey

as Michio Nakai

2013

Unforgiven

as Kingo Baba

2022

The Setting Sun

as Dr. Miyake

2004

The Motive

as Yoshifumi Katakura

1994

The Friends

as Nagatomo

2023

September 1923

as Teiji Igusa

1982

Lovers Lost

as Ishizuka

2022

Wandering

as Agata

2010

Cast Me If You Can

as Homeless guy

2010

The Lightning Tree

as Kakunoshi Enokido

2013

2023

Touken Ranbu 2

as Fujiwara no Michinaga

2022

2013

The War and a Woman

as client of woman

2008

The Taste of Fish

as Shojiro Sanada

2007

The Shadow Spirit

as mimasaka koushirou

2003

2002

KT

as Hiroshi Uchiyama

1999

Will to Live

as Doctor

2014

Wood Job!

as Toshiro Yamane

2014

0.5 mm

as Takeshi Sasaki

2009

John Rabe

as Matsui Iwane

2011

Life Back Then

as Masashi Inoue

2014

Oh! Father

as Hayashi Tomita

2010

Postcard

as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law

2004

The Lakeside Murder Case

as Tomoharu Fujima

2003

Farewell, Kuro

as Shuzo Hanazono

2023

Shylock's Children

as Hajime Sawazaki

1991

The Last Frankenstein

as Prof. Sarusawa

2000

2008

All Around Us

as kunimasa Yasuda

2006

Memories of Matsuko

as Tsunehiro Kawajiri

2023

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

as regular customer

2004

River of First Love

as Hidejiro Tasaki

2007

The Go Master

as Kensaku Segoe

2007

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic

2010

After the Flowers

as Soan Nagai

1989

Beijing Watermelon

as Mr. Teramoto

2014

Cold

as Jin Ichinose

2004

Moon and Cherry

as Sakamoto

2014

Time Trip App

as Ryuzo Yanagita

2012

Humanoid Monster, Bem

as Kao no nai otoko

2010

A Lone Scalpel

as Matsuo Okawa

2005

Scrap Heaven

as Detective Yabuta

2010

Heaven's Story

as Souichi

1989

Fancy Dance

as Masoho's boss

2015

2015

2023

Egoist

as Yoshio Saito

2023

Ripples

as Taro Kadokura

2014

A House on a Hill

as Yoshitarō Terashima

2014

Sleeping Forest

as Daisuke Ota

1999

2023

Do Unto Others

as Shosaku Shiba

2015

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho

as Priest Soutatsu

1985

2000

Nagisa

as Priest

2004

Drugstore Girl

as Koji Nabeshima

1981

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

as Detective Kuroki

2016

The Mohican Comes Home

as Osamu Tamura

2015

The Big Bee

as Murofushi

2016

Shin Godzilla

as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

2024

Migawari Mission

as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu

2003

Doppelganger

as Murakami

2016

Black Widow Business

as Jun Sakurada

1989

Battle Heater

as Riichi Hama

1989

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

as Hyoma Sakaguchi

2003

Hana

as Hiroshi Torigoe

1988

The Yen Family

as Shinichi Amemiya

2015

2016

Shippu Rondo

as Masaomi Togo

1989

Harimao

as Army Major

2024

Maru

as Teacher

2001

Kaza-hana

as Hot Spring Inn Owner

2017

Lu Over the Wall

as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

1984

Location

as Konno

2001

Waterboys

as Mama

2017

Mukoku

as Seppo Mitsumura

2016

A Living Promise

as Zenzo Takeda

1988

Revolver

as Keisuke Mineya

2017

Random Lives

as Hanamura

1982

Suspicion

as Shigekazu Akitani

1983

Double Bed

as Tôru Yamazaki

2018

Color Me True

as Tadashi Honda

2008

Teacher and Three Children

as Yoshio Ichikawa

2016

1996

2000

Another Heaven

as Doctor Akagi

2018

Evil and The Mask

as Detective Aida

2011

Shikei Kijun

as Kyusaku Tsushima

2018

Shoplifters

as Yoritsugu Kawado

2017

Neko Ninja

as Kariyazaki

2018

Recall

as Seiji Nomura

2005

2002

11’09”01—September 11

as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

2016

Sniper

as Tatsuyuki Miyata

2016

Survival Family

as Sasaki Shigeomi

2009

Yona Yona Penguin

as Jii (voice)

1979

2019

Castle of Sand

as Chiyokichi

2012

A Sower of Seeds

as Shuzo Morikawa

2018

Oz Land

as Boss

2019

The Promised Land

as Goro Fujiki

2012

1997

The Key

as Soichiro Anzai

1996

Shall We Dance?

as Detective Miwa

1984

Make-Up

as Kikuo Tsutano

1985

Congratulatory Speech

as Yasuhei Higashida

1983

Legend of the Cat Monster

as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura

2020

Living in the Sky

as Concierge Kondo

2020

2008

Happy Flight

as Saito

2020

Stardust Over The Town

as Kumabe Rokuzo

2004

Zebraman

as Kitahara the Crab Man

2003

Teacher's suitcase

as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna

2019

It Feels So Good

as Kenji's Father (voice)

2017

The Dog Bridegroom

as Kenkichi Okumura

2005

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

as Yunosuke Otsuka

2020

I Never Shot Anyone

as Takashi Renjo

2020

2022

A Man

as Norio Komiura

2007

Prodigy

as Hisashi Kikuna

2025

The Boy and the Dog

as Yaichi Katano

2021

空蝉の森

as Police Inspector kariya shinichi

2003

Samurai Resurrection

as Nobutsuna Matsudaira

2020

Production

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