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