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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-11-03
Place of birth
Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Images
Cast
Zatoichi
2003
7.20
Umami
2023
5.60
Hard Days
2023
6.58
The Eel
1997
7.00
A Crowd of Three
2010
4.90
Noise
2022
5.80
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
6.70
Turn
2001
6.80
The Great Yokai War
2005
6.30
Living Rights
2015
0.00
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
0.00
Rain Fall
2009
4.70
The City of Lost Souls
2000
6.20
ICHI
2008
6.80
Villain
2010
6.50
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
5.90
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
7.70
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
6.30
Worst by Chance
2003
0.00
Betrayal tomorrow
1990
0.00
One Day in January
2012
0.00
Golden Slumber
2010
7.15
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
6.80
Dr. Akagi
1998
6.60
Maborosi
1995
7.40
The Chasing World
2008
5.80
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
6.50
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
6.60
The Silk Road
1988
6.50
Starfish Hotel
2007
6.80
In His Chart
2011
4.60
Manhattan Kiss
1992
0.00
April Bride
2009
6.80
Ace Attorney
2012
6.10
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
5.93
Goal of the Sky
2023
0.00
Haru's Journey
2010
6.50
For the coming day
2005
0.00
Unforgiven
2013
7.00
The Setting Sun
2022
6.00
The Motive
2004
6.40
The Friends
1994
7.20
September 1923
2023
6.50
Lovers Lost
1982
7.10
Wandering
2022
6.50
Cast Me If You Can
2010
7.50
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
7.20
The Lightning Tree
2010
6.40
A Woman from Ashio
2014
9.00
Yellow Elephant
2013
6.00
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
0.00
Touken Ranbu 2
2023
5.00
海の見える理髪店
2022
0.00
The War and a Woman
2013
4.20
The Innocent Game
2023
5.33
Private Lessons II
1993
2.50
The Taste of Fish
2008
7.00
The Shadow Spirit
2007
5.30
Owl
2003
7.00
KT
2002
5.50
Will to Live
1999
6.30
Wood Job!
2014
7.34
0.5 mm
2014
7.34
John Rabe
2009
7.10
Life Back Then
2011
4.80
Oh! Father
2014
5.50
Postcard
2010
5.40
Farewell, Kuro
2003
6.80
The Lakeside Murder Case
2004
6.40
Barber's Sorrow
2002
0.00
Shylock's Children
2023
7.20
The Last Frankenstein
1991
6.00
The Whispered City
2000
9.00
The Happiness
2006
0.00
All Around Us
2008
7.44
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
5.80
Present for You
2013
0.00
Memories of Matsuko
2006
7.73
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
6.80
After the Flowers
2010
7.30
River of First Love
2004
6.70
The Go Master
2007
6.30
Abduction
1997
0.00
Beijing Watermelon
1989
6.30
It's Only Talk
2006
6.50
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
7.00
Cold
2014
0.00
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
0.00
Moon and Cherry
2004
6.00
Japan Sinks
2006
5.50
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
0.00
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
2.00
Time Trip App
2014
6.00
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
6.20
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
0.00
A Lone Scalpel
2010
6.40
Roar of the Crowd
1990
0.00
Scrap Heaven
2005
7.20
Heaven's Story
2010
5.80
Fancy Dance
1989
6.80
Journey to the Shore
2015
6.50
Vampire in Love
2015
7.00
Egoist
2023
7.60
Rental Family
0.00
Ripples
2023
6.30
A House on a Hill
2014
0.00
Sleeping Forest
2014
7.00
The Man from Shimizu
1982
0.00
Round About Midnight
1999
6.80
Love Letter
1998
0.00
Do Unto Others
2023
7.80
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015
7.40
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
6.00
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
5.70
No Place to Go
2022
6.00
Nagisa
2000
7.20
Muromachi Burai
2025
9.30
Drugstore Girl
2004
5.20
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
6.92
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
6.10
The Big Bee
2015
5.90
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
0.00
Shin Godzilla
2016
7.20
Maria's Stomach
1990
0.00
The Second Is a Christian
1985
5.00
Migawari Mission
2024
6.50
Doppelganger
2003
7.01
Black Widow Business
2016
8.50
Battle Heater
1989
7.20
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
8.00
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
8.00
Hana
2003
0.00
The Yen Family
1988
5.90
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
8.30
Elevator to the Gallows
2010
6.50
Shippu Rondo
2016
6.70
Harimao
1989
8.00
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
0.00
Maru
2024
0.00
Kaza-hana
2001
5.81
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
0.00
Lu Over the Wall
2017
7.10
Location
1984
0.00
Waterboys
2001
6.60
Mukoku
2017
6.20
A Living Promise
2016
0.00
Revolver
1988
6.70
Random Lives
2017
0.00
Suspicion
1982
6.70
Double Bed
1983
5.50
Color Me True
2018
7.60
Teacher and Three Children
2008
6.00
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
0.00
A Grain of Wheat
2016
0.00
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
8.00
Free and Easy 8
1996
7.50
Another Heaven
2000
6.10
Evil and The Mask
2018
7.20
Shikei Kijun
2011
0.00
Shoplifters
2018
7.90
Neko Ninja
2017
3.00
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
5.40
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
6.50
Recall
2018
6.80
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
7.50
Bedtime Eyes
1987
3.30
11’09”01—September 11
2002
6.40
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
7.70
Goodbye Mama
1991
0.00
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
0.00
Sniper
2016
0.00
Survival Family
2016
7.30
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
5.30
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
0.00
Castle of Sand
2019
8.70
A Sower of Seeds
2012
0.00
Oz Land
2018
7.20
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
6.80
The Promised Land
2019
6.40
Winning Pass
2004
0.00
Body and Soul
1997
1.00
Three for the Road
2007
4.00
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
6.60
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
6.70
Universal Laws
1990
0.00
The Key
1997
4.67
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
6.40
Shall We Dance?
1996
7.29
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
0.00
Make-Up
1984
0.00
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
2.50
Congratulatory Speech
1985
0.00
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
6.60
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
0.00
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
0.00
Living in the Sky
2020
7.30
Godot of the Emotos
2019
0.00
Underdog: Part One
2020
6.90
Happy Flight
2008
6.30
Stardust Over The Town
2020
6.00
Zebraman
2004
6.30
Teacher's suitcase
2003
7.00
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
6.30
It Feels So Good
2019
6.50
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
0.00
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
6.00
The End of the Tiny World
2021
7.80
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
7.00
Wonderful Paradise
2020
6.70
A Man
2022
7.08
Prodigy
2007
7.10
The Boy and the Dog
2025
7.70
空蝉の森
2021
0.00
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
6.30
Samurai Resurrection
2003
5.00
Amagi Pass
1983
6.70
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
0.00