Akira Emoto
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-11-03 (76 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 won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
Acting
(2025)
(2025)
(2025)
The Boy and the Dog
as Yaichi Katano
(2025)
(2024)
Migawari Mission
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
(2024)
(2024)
Maru
as Teacher
(2024)
The God of Curling
as Susumu Komiyama
(2023)
Hard Days
as Yutaka Senba
(2023)
Umami
as Salaryman
(2023)
September 1923
as Teiji Igusa
(2023)
Egoist
as Yoshio Saito
(2023)
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
as regular customer
(2023)
Do Unto Others
as Shosaku Shiba
(2023)
Ripples
as Taro Kadokura
(2023)
Touken Ranbu 2
as Fujiwara no Michinaga
(2023)
Shylock's Children
as Hajime Sawazaki
(2023)
(2023)
(2022)
Noise
as Shoji
(2022)
A Man
as Norio Komiura
(2022)
Wandering
as Agata
(2022)
(2022)
The Setting Sun
as Dr. Miyake
(2022)
海の見える理髪店
as 老店主
(2021)
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as Shop Owner
(2021)
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as old man
(2021)
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as Old Man
(2021)
The End of the Tiny World
as Kawabata
(2021)
空蝉の森
as Police Inspector kariya shinichi
(2021)
(2021)
(2020)
I Never Shot Anyone
as Takashi Renjo
(2020)
Underdog: Part One
as Sakuro
(2020)
Stardust Over The Town
as Kumabe Rokuzo
(2020)
Living in the Sky
as Concierge Kondo
(2020)
Wonderful Paradise
as Homeless
(2020)
Underdog: Part Two
as Sakuro
(2020)
(2019)
It Feels So Good
as Kenji's Father (voice)
(2019)
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as Toichi
(2019)
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
as Urakusai
(2019)
The Promised Land
as Goro Fujiki
(2019)
Castle of Sand
as Chiyokichi
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
(2018)
Shoplifters
as Yoritsugu Kawado
(2018)
Recall
as Seiji Nomura
(2018)
Oz Land
as Boss
(2018)
Color Me True
as Tadashi Honda
(2018)
Evil and The Mask
as Detective Aida
(2017)
Lu Over the Wall
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
(2017)
(2017)
Mukoku
as Seppo Mitsumura
(2017)
Neko Ninja
as Kariyazaki
(2017)
The Dog Bridegroom
as Kenkichi Okumura
(2017)
Random Lives
as Hanamura
(2016)
Shin Godzilla
as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
(2016)
Survival Family
as Sasaki Shigeomi
(2016)
Black Widow Business
as Jun Sakurada
(2016)
The Mohican Comes Home
as Osamu Tamura
(2016)
Shippu Rondo
as Masaomi Togo
(2016)
A Living Promise
as Zenzo Takeda
(2016)
Sniper
as Tatsuyuki Miyata
(2016)
A Grain of Wheat
as Honda
(2015)
Journey to the Shore
as Hoshitani
(2015)
The Big Bee
as Murofushi
(2015)
Vampire in Love
as Sojiro
(2015)
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
as Priest Soutatsu
(2015)
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Kumaji Ueda
(2015)
(2014)
Time Trip App
as Ryuzo Yanagita
(2014)
0.5 mm
as Takeshi Sasaki
(2014)
Wood Job!
as Toshiro Yamane
(2014)
Sleeping Forest
as Daisuke Ota
(2014)
Oh! Father
as Hayashi Tomita
(2014)
A House on a Hill
as Yoshitarō Terashima
(2014)
Cold
as Jin Ichinose
(2014)
(2013)
The War and a Woman
as client of woman
(2013)
Unforgiven
as Kingo Baba
(2013)
Yellow Elephant
as Arechi
(2013)
(2013)
(2013)
(2012)
Ace Attorney
as Saibancho (Judge)
(2012)
The Life of Budori Gusuko
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
(2012)
A Sower of Seeds
as Shuzo Morikawa
(2012)
Humanoid Monster, Bem
as Kao no nai otoko
(2012)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
as Seijiro Nose
(2012)
(2011)
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
as Dr. Akunomiya
(2011)
(2011)
(2011)
In His Chart
as Doctor
(2011)
Life Back Then
as Masashi Inoue
(2011)
Shikei Kijun
as Kyusaku Tsushima
(2011)
(2010)
(2010)
Sakurada Gate Incident
as Magojiro Kaneko
(2010)
The Lightning Tree
as Kakunoshi Enokido
(2010)
Golden Slumber
as Hodogaya Yasushi
(2010)
Villain
as Yoshio Ishibashi
(2010)
Postcard
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
(2010)
(2010)
(2010)
Heaven's Story
as Souichi
(2010)
A Lone Scalpel
as Matsuo Okawa
(2010)
After the Flowers
as Soan Nagai
(2010)
Haru's Journey
as Michio Nakai
(2010)
Cast Me If You Can
as Homeless guy
(2009)
John Rabe
as Matsui Iwane
(2009)
Yona Yona Penguin
as Jii (voice)
(2009)
Rain Fall
as Tatsu Ishikura
(2009)
April Bride
as Teishi Nagashima
(2009)
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as Itsuro Usui
(2009)
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
as Shotaro
(2008)
(2008)
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
as Counselor
(2008)
The Chasing World
as Doctor
(2008)
The Taste of Fish
as Shojiro Sanada
(2008)
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
as Journalist
(2008)
Happy Flight
as Saito
(2008)
All Around Us
as kunimasa Yasuda
(2008)
Teacher and Three Children
as Yoshio Ichikawa
(2008)
(2007)
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
(2007)
The Go Master
as Kensaku Segoe
(2007)
The Shadow Spirit
as mimasaka koushirou
(2007)
(2007)
Starfish Hotel
as Mr. Trickster
(2007)
Prodigy
as Hisashi Kikuna
(2007)
Life Can Be So Wonderful
as Haeo
(2006)
Memories of Matsuko
as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
as Seigo Tsuda
(2005)
(2005)
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
as Yunosuke Otsuka
(2005)
Scrap Heaven
as Detective Yabuta
(2005)
Love Is Five Seven Five
as Grandfather
(2005)
(2004)
Zebraman
as Kitahara the Crab Man
(2004)
The Lakeside Murder Case
as Tomoharu Fujima
(2004)
The Motive
as Yoshifumi Katakura
(2004)
River of First Love
as Hidejiro Tasaki
(2004)
Moon and Cherry
as Sakamoto
(2004)
(2004)
Drugstore Girl
as Koji Nabeshima
(2004)
The Hunter and the Hunted
as Neko
(2004)
Takada Wataru Teki
as Self
(2003)
Zatoichi
as Pub Owner
(2003)
Doppelganger
as Murakami
(2003)
(2003)
Worst by Chance
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
(2003)
Samurai Resurrection
as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
(2003)
Hana
as Hiroshi Torigoe
(2003)
Teacher's suitcase
as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
(2003)
Farewell, Kuro
as Shuzo Hanazono
(2002)
11’09”01—September 11
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
(2002)
(2002)
KT
as Hiroshi Uchiyama
(2001)
Waterboys
as Mama
(2001)
Kaza-hana
as Hot Spring Inn Owner
(2001)
Turn
as Matsubara
(2000)
Another Heaven
as Doctor Akagi
(2000)
Nagisa
as Priest
(2000)
The City of Lost Souls
as Kuwata
(2000)
The Whispered City
as Artist
(1999)
Round About Midnight
as Totsuka
(1999)
Will to Live
as Doctor
(1999)
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
as Tatsuo
(1999)
(1998)
Dr. Akagi
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
(1998)
(1997)
The Eel
as Tamotsu Takasaki
(1997)
The Key
as Soichiro Anzai
(1997)
(1997)
(1996)
Shall We Dance?
as Detective Miwa
(1996)
(1996)
Free and Easy 8
as Yukawa
(1995)
Maborosi
as Yoshihiro
(1994)
The Friends
as Nagatomo
(1994)
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
as Major Akira Yuki
(1993)
Private Lessons II
as Oba
(1993)
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
(1992)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
(1992)
(1992)
(1991)
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Kogoro Katsura
(1991)
(1991)
(1991)
The Last Frankenstein
as Prof. Sarusawa
(1990)
(1990)
(1990)
(1990)
(1989)
Fancy Dance
as Masoho's boss
(1989)
Beijing Watermelon
as Mr. Teramoto
(1989)
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as Hyoma Sakaguchi
(1989)
Mottomo Abunai Deka
as Maeo
(1989)
Battle Heater
as Riichi Hama
(1989)
Harimao
as Army Major
(1988)
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
as Yakuza
(1988)
(1988)
Revolver
as Keisuke Mineya
(1988)
The Yen Family
as Shinichi Amemiya
(1987)
(1987)
A Tale of Young Elopement
as Matsuda
(1987)
(1987)
(1985)
Capone Cries a Lot
as Ushiemon
(1985)
The Second Is a Christian
as Kumashiro
(1985)
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as Hirofumi Maruyama
(1985)
Congratulatory Speech
as Yasuhei Higashida
(1984)
Location
as Konno
(1984)
Make-Up
as Kikuo Tsutano
(1983)
Double Bed
as Tôru Yamazaki
(1983)
(1983)
Legend of the Cat Monster
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
(1982)
Suspicion
as Shigekazu Akitani
(1982)
Lovers Lost
as Ishizuka
(1982)
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Kondo
(1982)
(1981)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Detective Kuroki
(1980)
(1979)
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
as Daigorô Hatayama
(1979)
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
as Kantarô Iwata
(1979)
Crew
(1993)
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Director