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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan, 1948-11-03

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again	Daigorô Hatayama	69
2	1982	Lovers Lost	Ishizuka	71
3	1982	The Man from Shimizu		0
4	1985	I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident	Hirofumi Maruyama	10
5	1987	The Great Department Store Robbery		0
6	1988	The Silk Road		65
7	1989	Beijing Watermelon	Mr. Teramoto	63
8	1989	Fancy Dance	Masoho's boss	68
9	1990	Roar of the Crowd		0
10	1990	Betrayal tomorrow		0
11	1991	The Last Frankenstein	Prof. Sarusawa	60
12	1992	Sumo Do, Sumo Don't	Professor Tokichi Anayama	66
13	1992	Manhattan Kiss		0
14	1992	Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2		20
15	1993	Private Lessons II	Oba	25
16	1993	I Can Hear the Duck Singing		0
17	1994	The Friends	Nagatomo	71
18	1994	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	Major Akira Yuki	68
19	1995	Maborosi	Yoshihiro	74
20	1996	The Rainbow Seeker		0
21	1997	The Eel	Tamotsu Takasaki	69
22	1997	Abduction		0
23	1998	Dr. Akagi	Dr. Fuu Akagi	66
24	1998	Love Letter		0
25	1999	Will to Live	Doctor	63
26	1999	Round About Midnight	Totsuka	68
27	1999	Kaizokuban Bootleg Film	Tatsuo	59
28	2000	The Whispered City	Artist	90
29	2000	The City of Lost Souls	Kuwata	62
30	2001	Turn	Matsubara	68
31	2002	KT	Hiroshi Uchiyama	55
32	2002	Barber's Sorrow		0
33	2003	Owl		70
34	2003	Farewell, Kuro	Shuzo Hanazono	68
35	2003	Zatoichi	Pub Owner	72
36	2003	Worst by Chance	Shigeharu Kaneshiro	0
37	2004	The Lakeside Murder Case	Tomoharu Fujima	64
38	2004	River of First Love	Hidejiro Tasaki	67
39	2004	The Motive	Yoshifumi Katakura	64
40	2004	Moon and Cherry	Sakamoto	60
41	2005	For the coming day		0
42	2005	The Great Yokai War		63
43	2005	The Suspect: Muroi Shinji	Seigo Tsuda	63
44	2005	Scrap Heaven	Detective Yabuta	72
45	2006	Memories of Matsuko	Tsunehiro Kawajiri	78
46	2006	It's Only Talk		65
47	2006	Japan Sinks		55
48	2006	The Happiness		0
49	2007	Starfish Hotel	Mr. Trickster	68
50	2007	Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic	69
51	2007	The Go Master	Kensaku Segoe	63
52	2007	Life Can Be So Wonderful	Haeo	70
53	2007	The Shadow Spirit	mimasaka koushirou	53
54	2008	The Chasing World	Doctor	56
55	2008	The Most Beautiful Night In The World	Journalist	61
56	2008	The Taste of Fish	Shojiro Sanada	70
57	2008	All Around Us	kunimasa Yasuda	74
58	2008	The Cycling Genius Is Coming!		0
59	2008	Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit	Counselor	65
60	2008	ICHI		68
61	2009	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	Itsuro Usui	80
62	2009	John Rabe	Matsui Iwane	71
63	2009	Rain Fall	Tatsu Ishikura	46
64	2009	April Bride	Teishi Nagashima	68
65	2010	Golden Slumber	Hodogaya Yasushi	72
66	2010	After the Flowers	Soan Nagai	73
67	2010	Haru's Journey	Michio Nakai	65
68	2010	A Lone Scalpel	Matsuo Okawa	64
69	2010	A Crowd of Three		49
70	2010	Villain	Yoshio Ishibashi	66
71	2010	Heaven's Story	Souichi	58
72	2010	Sakurada Gate Incident	Magojiro Kaneko	72
73	2010	The Lightning Tree	Kakunoshi Enokido	64
74	2010	Cast Me If You Can	Homeless guy	75
75	2010	Postcard	Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law	54
76	2011	Ninja Kids!!!		58
77	2011	In His Chart	Doctor	49
78	2011	Karate-Robo Zaborgar	Dr. Akunomiya	59
79	2011	Life Back Then	Masashi Inoue	48
80	2011	Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet	Yoneuchi	65
81	2012	Ace Attorney	Saibancho (Judge)	61
82	2012	The Life of Budori Gusuko	Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)	67
83	2012	One Day in January		0
84	2012	Humanoid Monster, Bem	Kao no nai otoko	62
85	2013	Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark		0
86	2013	Yellow Elephant	Arechi	60
87	2013	The War and a Woman	client of woman	42
88	2013	Unforgiven	Kingo Baba	70
89	2013	Present for You		0
90	2014	Sleeping Forest	Daisuke Ota	70
91	2014	A Woman from Ashio		90
92	2014	Wood Job!	Toshiro Yamane	74
93	2014	Oh! Father	Hayashi Tomita	55
94	2014	Time Trip App	Ryuzo Yanagita	60
95	2014	Cold	Jin Ichinose	0
96	2014	0.5 mm	Takeshi Sasaki	74
97	2014	A House on a Hill	Yoshitarō Terashima	0
98	2015	Living Rights		0
99	2015	Vampire in Love	Sojiro	70
100	2015	Journey to the Shore	Hoshitani	65
101	2019	BON-UTA, A Song from Home	(voice)	72
102	2021	祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―		0
103	2021	Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun		0
104	2022	Noise	Shoji	58
105	2022	海の見える理髪店	老店主	0
106	2022	Wandering	Agata	65
107	2022	The Setting Sun	Dr. Miyake	60
108	2023	Umami	Salaryman	56
109	2023	Egoist	Yoshio Saito	75
110	2023	Shylock's Children	Hajime Sawazaki	76
111	2023	Yudo: The Way of the Bath	regular customer	68
112	2023	Touken Ranbu 2	Fujiwara no Michinaga	50
113	2023	Hard Days	Yutaka Senba	66
114	2023	Goal of the Sky		0
115	2023	September 1923	Teiji Igusa	63
116		Rental Family		0
117	1979	Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie		0
118	1979	Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman	Kantarô Iwata	0
119	1980	Disciples of Hippocrates		64
120	1981	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Detective Kuroki	69
121	1982	Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san	Kondo	80
122	1982	Suspicion	Shigekazu Akitani	67
123	1983	Amagi Pass		67
124	1983	Double Bed	Tôru Yamazaki	54
125	1983	Legend of the Cat Monster	Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura	0
126	1984	Make-Up	Kikuo Tsutano	0
127	1984	Location	Konno	80
128	1985	Capone Cries a Lot	Ushiemon	57
129	1985	The Second Is a Christian	Kumashiro	50
130	1985	Congratulatory Speech	Yasuhei Higashida	0
131	1987	A Tale of Young Elopement	Matsuda	0
132	1987	Bedtime Eyes		33
133	1987	The Heartbreak Yakuza		54
134	1988	Angel Guts: Red Vertigo	Yakuza	62
135	1988	The Yen Family	Shinichi Amemiya	59
136	1988	Revolver	Keisuke Mineya	67
137	1989	Mottomo Abunai Deka	Maeo	80
138	1989	Harimao	Army Major	80
139	1989	Tora-san Goes to Vienna	Hyoma Sakaguchi	80
140	1989	Battle Heater	Riichi Hama	72
141	1990	Universal Laws		0
142	1990	Maria's Stomach		0
143	1991	Goodbye Mama		0
144	1991	Dance till Tomorrow		0
145	1991	A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era	Kogoro Katsura	70
146	1993	When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang	Narrator (voice)	67
147	1996	Shall We Dance?	Detective Miwa	73
148	1996	Free and Easy 8	Yukawa	75
149	1997	Body and Soul		10
150	1997	The Key	Soichiro Anzai	49
151	1999	The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe	Matashichi	0
152	2000	Another Heaven	Doctor Akagi	61
153	2000	Nagisa	Priest	72
154	2001	Kaza-hana	Hot Spring Inn Owner	58
155	2001	Waterboys	Mama	66
156	2002	11’09”01—September 11	Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")	64
157	2003	Teacher's suitcase	Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna	70
158	2003	Samurai Resurrection	Nobutsuna Matsudaira	50
159	2003	Doppelganger	Murakami	70
160	2003	Hana	Hiroshi Torigoe	0
161	2004	The Hunter and the Hunted	Neko	0
162	2004	Winning Pass		0
163	2004	Zebraman	Kitahara the Crab Man	63
164	2004	Drugstore Girl	Koji Nabeshima	52
165	2004	Takada Wataru Teki	Self	0
166	2005	Tetsujin 28: The Movie	Yunosuke Otsuka	60
167	2005	Love Is Five Seven Five	Grandfather	75
168	2006	The Summer of Stickleback		0
169	2007	Three for the Road		40
170	2007	Prodigy	Hisashi Kikuna	71
171	2008	Teacher and Three Children	Yoshio Ichikawa	60
172	2008	Happy Flight	Saito	63
173	2009	Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha	Shotaro	0
174	2009	Yona Yona Penguin	Jii (voice)	53
175	2010	Hutch the Honeybee		47
176	2010	Elevator to the Gallows		65
177	2011	A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip	wet guy	85
178	2011	Shikei Kijun	Kyusaku Tsushima	0
179	2012	A Sower of Seeds	Shuzo Morikawa	0
180	2012	Casting Blossoms to the Sky	Seijiro Nose	66
181	2013	Fly, Dakota, Fly!		0
182	2015	GARO -Gold Storm- Sho	Priest Soutatsu	74
183	2015	The Pearls of the Stone Man	Kumaji Ueda	83
184	2015	The Big Bee	Murofushi	57
185	2016	A Living Promise	Zenzo Takeda	0
186	2016	The Mohican Comes Home	Osamu Tamura	61
187	2016	Shin Godzilla	Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary	72
188	2016	A Grain of Wheat	Honda	0
189	2016	Black Widow Business	Jun Sakurada	85
190	2016	Sniper	Tatsuyuki Miyata	0
191	2016	Shippu Rondo	Masaomi Togo	67
192	2016	Survival Family	Sasaki Shigeomi	73
193	2017	Random Lives	Hanamura	0
194	2017	The Dog Bridegroom	Kenkichi Okumura	0
195	2017	Lu Over the Wall	Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)	71
196	2017	Neko Ninja	Kariyazaki	30
197	2017	Mukoku	Seppo Mitsumura	62
198	2017	Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~		100
199	2018	Evil and The Mask	Detective Aida	72
200	2018	Color Me True	Tadashi Honda	76
201	2018	Shoplifters	Yoritsugu Kawado	78
202	2018	Recall	Seiji Nomura	68
203	2018	Oz Land	Boss	72
204	2019	Castle of Sand	Chiyokichi	87
205	2019	Godot of the Emotos		0
206	2019	Iwane: Sword of Serenity	Urakusai	77
207	2019	It Feels So Good	Kenji's Father (voice)	66
208	2019	They Say Nothing Stays the Same	Toichi	68
209	2019	The Promised Land	Goro Fujiki	64
210	2019	Show Me the Way to the Station		67
211	2019	Finding Light at the Darkness Festival		0
212	2020	Stardust Over The Town	Kumabe Rokuzo	60
213	2020	I Never Shot Anyone	Takashi Renjo	70
214	2020	Nosari: Impermanent Eternity		25
215	2020	Living in the Sky	Concierge Kondo	73
216	2020	Wonderful Paradise	Homeless	67
217	2020	Underdog: Part One	Sakuro	69
218	2020	Underdog: Part Two	Sakuro	60
219	2021	The End of the Tiny World	Kawabata	78
220	2021	空蝉の森	Police Inspector kariya shinichi	0
221	2021	The Great Yokai War: Guardians	old man	62
222	2021	The Great Yokai War: Guardians	Old Man	62
223	2021	Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai	Shop Owner	66
224	2022	No Place to Go		60
225	2022	A Man	Norio Komiura	70
226	2023	Do Unto Others	Shosaku Shiba	78
227	2023	Ripples	Taro Kadokura	64
228	2023	The Innocent Game		53
229	2024	The Honest Realtor Special		0
230	2024	Migawari Mission	Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu	65
231	2024	Maru	Teacher	60
232	2025	Samurai Fury		91
233	2025	The Boy and the Dog	Yaichi Katano	77
234	2025	The Way of The Prison Guard		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	水曜ドラマスペシャル		0
2	1991	Taiheiki	Moronao Kô-no	0
3	1993	Family Court Judge	Shibuya Naomasa	0
4	1995	Eighth Shogun Yoshimune	Tokugawa Munenao	0
5	1998	Yanchakure	水嶋钦一	0
6	1999	Genroku Ryoran	Genshiro	77
7	1999	Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai		80
8	2001	Prince Shotoku	Anahobe no miko	60
9	2002	The Private Detective Mike		84
10	2002	AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo	Hyoue Yarikura	79
11	2002	Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko		0
12	2003	Water Boys	Mama (of a bar)	72
13	2003	Love & War of a Samurai		0
14	2004	竜馬がゆく		0
15	2005	Haru and Natsu	Kotaro Nakayama	78
16	2006	Love and Glory	Hideyoshi Toyotomi	70
17	2006	Tokumei! Keiji Dongame		0
18	2008	Ties of Shooting Stars	Togami Masayuki	75
19	2009	Clouds Over the Hill	乃木知幸介	81
20	2010	Absolute Zero	Sosuke Kagami	80
21	2010	Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka		0
22	2010	Mori no Asagao	Keizukuri Hukahori	100
23	2011	HUNTER - Women After Reward Money	Shogo Ooiwa	80
24	2011	Humanoid Monster Bem	Nameless Man	70
25	2012	Folktales from Japan		85
26	2012	Platinum Town		0
27	2013	Black Kite	Kaiun	84
28	2013	Kumokiri Nizaemon		85
29	2013	Hanzawa Naoki	Keiji Minobe	82
30	2013	Olympic Ransom		0
31	2014	The Long Goodbye	Heizo Harada	66
32	2015	新法廷荒らし猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜		0
33	2016	Love That Makes You Cry	Masahiko Hayashida	81
34	2016	Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru		0
35	2016	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit	Sfar	76
36	2017	Silver and Gold	Hitoshi Kuramae	67
37	2017	A Life	Danjo Toranosuke	70
38	2017	Frankenstein's Love	Tsurumaru	70
39	2017	Home Sweet Tokyo	[Ramen Shop Owner]	0
40	2018	Segodon	Ryu Samin	83
41	2018	Good Doctor	Akira Shiga	81
42	2019	In Hand		80
43	2019	Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation	铃本茂树	80
44	2019	Banjo no Himawari		80
45	2021	てにあまる		0
46	2021	Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later	Kawabata	90
47	2021	Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses	Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)	0
48	2022	Ten Count to the Future	Kenzo Ashiya	76
49	2022	Teen Regime	Washida Tsuguaki	75
50	2022	Lost Man Found	Himself	79
51	2022	混声の森		0
52	2022	The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors	Yotaro Befunokami	60
53	2022	Goodbye My Dear	Hiroshi Yamawaki	70
54	2022	Japanese Style	Hifuji Umekoshi	60
55	2023	Get Ready!	Hiroshi Bojo	80
56	2023	満天のゴール	トクじい	0
57	2024	JK to Roppozensho	桜木倫太郎	0
58	2024	Shinjuku Field Hospital	Keisuke Takamine	80