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
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Genroku Ryoran
7.7
Banjo no Himawari
8
Water Boys
7.2
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
9
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
0
Love and Glory
7
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
8
Segodon
8.3
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
0
The Private Detective Mike
8.4
The Long Goodbye
6.6
Home Sweet Tokyo
0
Ties of Shooting Stars
7.5
Haru and Natsu
7.8
てにあまる
0
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
8
Olympic Ransom
0
Love That Makes You Cry
8.125
A Life
7
Frankenstein's Love
7
Family Court Judge
0
満天のゴール
0
Ten Count to the Future
7.6
In Hand
8
水曜ドラマスペシャル
0
Silver and Gold
6.7
Absolute Zero
8
Good Doctor
8.143
Teen Regime
7.5
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
7.9
Folktales from Japan
8.5
混声の森
0
Kumokiri Nizaemon
8.5
Yanchakure
0
Humanoid Monster Bem
7
Black Kite
8.4
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
6
Goodbye My Dear
7
Japanese Style
6
Lost Man Found
7.9
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
7.6
Prince Shotoku
6
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
0
Platinum Town
0
Mori no Asagao
10
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
8
竜馬がゆく
0
Get Ready!
8
JK to Roppozensho
0
Shinjuku Field Hospital
8
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
0
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
0
Hanzawa Naoki
8.2
Taiheiki
0
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
0
Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru
0
Clouds Over the Hill
8.1
Love & War of a Samurai
0
Movies
Zatoichi
7.2
Umami
5.6
Hard Days
6.6
The Great Department Store Robbery
0
The Eel
6.9
A Crowd of Three
4.9
Noise
5.8
The Life of Budori Gusuko
6.7
Turn
6.8
The Great Yokai War
6.3
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
0
Living Rights
0
Rain Fall
4.6
The City of Lost Souls
6.2
ICHI
6.8
Villain
6.61
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
5.9
Sakurada Gate Incident
7.7
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
0
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
6.3
Worst by Chance
0
Betrayal tomorrow
0
One Day in January
0
Golden Slumber
7.1
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
6.8
Dr. Akagi
6.6
Maborosi
7.374
The Chasing World
5.6
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
6.5
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
6.647
The Silk Road
6.5
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1
Starfish Hotel
6.8
In His Chart
4.889
Manhattan Kiss
0
April Bride
6.8
Ace Attorney
6.119
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
5.9
Goal of the Sky
0
Haru's Journey
6.5
For the coming day
0
Unforgiven
7
The Setting Sun
6
The Motive
6.4
The Friends
7
September 1923
6.313
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
6.5
Lovers Lost
7.1
Wandering
6.5
Cast Me If You Can
7.5
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
7.2
The Lightning Tree
6.4
A Woman from Ashio
9
Yellow Elephant
6
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
0
Touken Ranbu 2
5
海の見える理髪店
0
The Innocent Game
5.3
The War and a Woman
4.2
Private Lessons II
2.5
The Taste of Fish
7
The Shadow Spirit
5.3
Owl
7
KT
5.5
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
6.1
Will to Live
6.3
Wood Job!
7.385
0.5 mm
7.3
John Rabe
7.081
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
6.9
Life Back Then
4.8
Oh! Father
5.5
Postcard
5.4
Farewell, Kuro
6.8
The Lakeside Murder Case
6.4
Barber's Sorrow
0
Shylock's Children
7.6
The Last Frankenstein
6
The Whispered City
9
The Happiness
0
All Around Us
7.438
Ninja Kids!!!
5.8
Present for You
0
Memories of Matsuko
7.7
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
6.8
River of First Love
6.7
The Go Master
6.3
After the Flowers
7.3
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
6.9
Abduction
0
Beijing Watermelon
6.3
It's Only Talk
6.5
Life Can Be So Wonderful
7
Cold
0
The Rainbow Seeker
0
Moon and Cherry
6
Japan Sinks
5.5
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
0
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
2
Time Trip App
6
Humanoid Monster, Bem
6.2
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
8
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
0
A Lone Scalpel
6.4
Roar of the Crowd
0
Scrap Heaven
7.2
Heaven's Story
5.8
Fancy Dance
6.8
Journey to the Shore
6.5
Vampire in Love
7
Egoist
7.5
Rental Family
0
Ripples
6.4
A House on a Hill
0
Sleeping Forest
7
The Man from Shimizu
0
Round About Midnight
6.8
Love Letter
0
Do Unto Others
7.8
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
7.4
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
6.045
Capone Cries a Lot
5.7
No Place to Go
6
Nagisa
7.2
Muromachi Burai
9.3
Drugstore Girl
5.2
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
6.9
The Mohican Comes Home
6.1
The Big Bee
5.9
The Summer of Stickleback
0
Shin Godzilla
7.203
Maria's Stomach
0
The Second Is a Christian
5
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
6.667
Migawari Mission
6.5
Doppelganger
7.011
Black Widow Business
8.5
Battle Heater
7.2
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8
Hana
0
The Yen Family
5.9
The Pearls of the Stone Man
8.3
Elevator to the Gallows
6.5
Shippu Rondo
6.7
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
8.5
Harimao
8
Dance till Tomorrow
0
Maru
6
Kaza-hana
5.813
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
0
Lu Over the Wall
7.1
Location
8
Mukoku
6.2
Waterboys
6.6
A Living Promise
0
Revolver
6.7
Random Lives
0
Suspicion
6.7
Double Bed
5.4
Color Me True
7.6
Teacher and Three Children
6
The Hunter and the Hunted
0
A Grain of Wheat
0
Mottomo Abunai Deka
8
Free and Easy 8
7.5
Another Heaven
6.061
Evil and The Mask
7.2
Shikei Kijun
0
Shoplifters
7.85
Neko Ninja
3
The Heartbreak Yakuza
5.4
Hutch the Honeybee
4.667
Recall
6.8
Love Is Five Seven Five
7.5
Bedtime Eyes
3.3
11’09”01—September 11
6.4
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
7.7
Goodbye Mama
0
A Tale of Young Elopement
0
Sniper
0
Survival Family
7.298
Yona Yona Penguin
5.3
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
0
Castle of Sand
8.7
A Sower of Seeds
0
Oz Land
7.2
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
6.8
The Promised Land
6.4
Winning Pass
0
Body and Soul
1
Three for the Road
4
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
6.6
Show Me the Way to the Station
6.7
Universal Laws
0
The Key
4.9
Disciples of Hippocrates
6.4
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
0
Shall We Dance?
7.303
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
0
Make-Up
0
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2.5
Congratulatory Speech
0
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
6.6
Legend of the Cat Monster
0
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
0
Living in the Sky
7.3
Godot of the Emotos
0
Underdog: Part One
6.9
Happy Flight
6.3
Stardust Over The Town
6
Zebraman
6.3
Teacher's suitcase
7
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
6.167
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
10
It Feels So Good
6.5
The Dog Bridegroom
0
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
6
The End of the Tiny World
7.8
I Never Shot Anyone
7
Wonderful Paradise
6.7
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
7
A Man
7
Prodigy
7.1
The Boy and the Dog
7.7
空蝉の森
0
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
6.167
Samurai Resurrection
5
Amagi Pass
6.7
Takada Wataru Teki
0
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
0
Underdog: Part Two
6
Kanshu no Ryugi
0