Akira Emoto
Acting
Born November 3, 1948 · Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Directed (1)
Acting (240)
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
One Last Throw
2025
Rental Family
2025
The Final Piece
2025
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
The Boy and the Dog
2025
Samurai Fury
2025
The God of Curling
2024
Maru
2024
Rotting
2024
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
The Innocent Game
2023
September 1923
2023
Goal of the Sky
2023
Ripples
2023
Hard Days
2023
Touken Ranbu 2
2023
Do Unto Others
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
Shylock's Children
2023
Egoist
2023
Umami
2023
A Man
2022
The Setting Sun
2022
No Place to Go
2022
Wandering
2022
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
Noise
2022
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Utsusemi no mori
2021
The End of the Tiny World
2021
Underdog: Part One
2020
Underdog: Part Two
2020
Wonderful Paradise
2020
Living in the Sky
2020
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
Stardust over the Town
2020
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
The Promised Land
2019
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
It Feels So Good
2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
Godot of the Emotos
2019
Castle of Sand
2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Oz Land
2018
Recall
2018
Shoplifters
2018
Color Me True
2018
Evil and The Mask
2018
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
Mukoku
2017
Neko Ninja
2017
Lu Over the Wall
2017
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Survival Family
2017
Random Lives
2017
Shippu Rondo
2016
Sniper
2016
Black Widow Business
2016
A Grain of Wheat
2016
Shin Godzilla
2016
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
A Living Promise
2016
Journey to the Shore
2015
The Big Bee
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Vampire in Love
2015
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015
Living Rights
2015
Present for You
2015
A House on a Hill
2014
0.5 mm
2014
Cold
2014
Time Trip App
2014
Oh! Father
2014
Wood Job!
2014
Sleeping Forest
2014
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
The Partner
2013
Unforgiven
2013
The War and a Woman
2013
Yellow Elephant
2013
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
One Day in January
2012
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
A Sower of Seeds
2012
Ace Attorney
2012
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Life Back Then
2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
Shikei Kijun
2011
In His Chart
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
Postcard
2010
Cast Me If You Can
2010
The Lightning Tree
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
Heaven's Story
2010
Villain
2010
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Haru's Journey
2010
After the Flowers
2010
Golden Slumber
2010
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
April Bride
2009
Rain Fall
2009
John Rabe
2009
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
Happy Flight
2008
ICHI
2008
Teacher and Three Children
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
The Taste of Fish
2008
All Around Us
2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
The Chasing World
2008
The Shadow Spirit
2007
Prodigy
2007
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Three for the Road
2007
The Go Master
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Starfish Hotel
2007
The Happiness
2006
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Japan Sinks
2006
It's Only Talk
2006
Memories of Matsuko
2006
Scrap Heaven
2005
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
The Great Yokai War
2005
For the coming day
2005
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
Moon & Cherry
2004
The Motive
2004
River of First Love
2004
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
Drugstore Girl
2004
Zebraman
2004
Winning Pass
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
Hana
2003
Doppelganger
2003
Worst by Chance
2003
Zatoichi
2003
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Teacher's suitcase
2003
Owl
2003
Barber's Sorrow
2002
September 11
2002
KT
2002
Turn
2001
Waterboys
2001
Kaza-hana
2001
The City of Lost Souls
2000
The Whispered City
2000
Nagisa
2000
Another Heaven
2000
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Round About Midnight
1999
Will to Live
1999
Love Letter
1998
Dr. Akagi
1998
Body and Soul
1997
The Key
1997
Abduction
1997
The Eel
1997
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Free and Easy 8
1996
Shall We Dance?
1996
Maborosi
1995
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
The Friends
1994
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Private Lessons II
1993
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Manhattan Kiss
1992
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
The Last Frankenstein
1991
Goodbye Mama
1991
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
Maria's Stomach
1990
Roar of the Crowd
1990
Universal Laws
1990
Fancy Dance
1989
Beijing Watermelon
1989
Battle Heater
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Harimao
1989
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
Revolver
1988
The Silk Road
1988
The Yen Family
1988
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Bedtime Eyes
1987
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Congratulatory Speech
1985
The Second Is a Christian
1985
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
Location
1984
Make-Up
1984
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
Double Bed
1983
Amagi Pass
1983
The Man from Shimizu
1982
Suspicion
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Lovers Lost
1982
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979