Akira Emoto
Born
November 3, 1948 (76 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Chūō, 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.
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
The Innocent Game
2023
September 1923
Teiji Igusa
2023
Goal of the Sky
2023
Hard Days
Yutaka Senba
2023
Touken Ranbu 2
Fujiwara no Michinaga
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
regular customer
2023
Shylock's Children
Hajime Sawazaki
2023
Egoist
Yoshio Saito
2023
Umami
Salaryman
2023
The Setting Sun
Dr. Miyake
2022
Wandering
Agata
2022
海の見える理髪店
老店主
2022
Noise
Shoji
2022
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
2019
Journey to the Shore
Hoshitani
2015
Vampire in Love
Sojiro
2015
Living Rights
2015
0.5 mm
Takeshi Sasaki
2014
Cold
Jin Ichinose
2014
Time Trip App
Ryuzo Yanagita
2014
Oh! Father
Hayashi Tomita
2014
Wood Job!
Toshiro Yamane
2014
A Woman from Ashio
2014
Present for You
2013
Unforgiven
Kingo Baba
2013
The War and a Woman
client of woman
2013
Yellow Elephant
Arechi
2013
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Humanoid Monster, Bem
Kao no nai otoko
2012
One Day in January
2012
The Life of Budori Gusuko
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
2012
Ace Attorney
Saibancho (Judge)
2012
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Yoneuchi
2011
Life Back Then
Masashi Inoue
2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Dr. Akunomiya
2011
In His Chart
Doctor
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
Postcard
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
2010
Cast Me If You Can
Homeless guy
2010
The Lightning Tree
Kakunoshi Enokido
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident
Magojiro Kaneko
2010
Heaven's Story
Souichi
2010
Villain
Yoshio Ishibashi
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
A Lone Scalpel
Matsuo Okawa
2010
Haru's Journey
Michio Nakai
2010
After the Flowers
Soan Nagai
2010
Golden Slumber
Hodogaya Yasushi
2010
April Bride
Teishi Nagashima
2009
Rain Fall
Tatsu Ishikura
2009
John Rabe
Matsui Iwane
2009
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Itsuro Usui
2009
ICHI
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Counselor
2008
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
The Taste of Fish
Shojiro Sanada
2008
All Around Us
kunimasa Yasuda
2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Journalist
2008
The Chasing World
Doctor
2008
The Shadow Spirit
mimasaka koushirou
2007
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Haeo
2007
The Go Master
Kensaku Segoe
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
2007
Starfish Hotel
Mr. Trickster
2007
The Happiness
2006
Japan Sinks
2006
It's Only Talk
2006
Memories of Matsuko
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
2006
Scrap Heaven
Detective Yabuta
2005
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Seigo Tsuda
2005
The Great Yokai War
2005
For the coming day
2005
Moon and Cherry
Sakamoto
2004
The Motive
Yoshifumi Katakura
2004
River of First Love
Hidejiro Tasaki
2004
The Lakeside Murder Case
Tomoharu Fujima
2004
Worst by Chance
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
2003
Zatoichi
Pub Owner
2003
Farewell, Kuro
Shuzo Hanazono
2003
Owl
2003
Barber's Sorrow
2002
KT
Hiroshi Uchiyama
2002
Turn
Matsubara
2001
The City of Lost Souls
Kuwata
2000
The Whispered City
Artist
2000
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Tatsuo
1999
Will to Live
Doctor
1999
Dr. Akagi
Dr. Fuu Akagi
1998
Abduction
1997
The Eel
Tamotsu Takasaki
1997
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Maborosi
Yoshihiro
1995
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Major Akira Yuki
1994
The Friends
Nagatomo
1994
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
Private Lessons II
Oba
1993
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Manhattan Kiss
1992
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Professor Tokichi Anayama
1992
The Last Frankenstein
Prof. Sarusawa
1991
Betrayal tomorrow
1990
Roar of the Crowd
1990
Fancy Dance
Masoho's boss
1989
Beijing Watermelon
Mr. Teramoto
1989
The Silk Road
1988
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Hirofumi Maruyama
1985
Lovers Lost
Ishizuka
1982
Rental Family
The Boy and the Dog
Yaichi Katano
2025
Samurai Fury
2025
Maru
Teacher
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Keisuke Takamine · (11 episodes)
2024
JK to Roppozensho
桜木倫太郎 · (8 episodes)
2024
Migawari Mission
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
2024
The Honest Realtor Special
2024
満天のゴール
トクじい · (2 episodes)
2023
Ripples
Taro Kadokura
2023
Do Unto Others
Shosaku Shiba
2023
Get Ready!
Hiroshi Bojo · (1 episode)
2023
A Man
Norio Komiura
2022
Japanese Style
Hifuji Umekoshi · (9 episodes)
2022
No Place to Go
2022
Goodbye My Dear
Hiroshi Yamawaki · (1 episode)
2022
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
Yotaro Befunokami · (10 episodes)
2022
混声の森
(2 episodes)
2022
Lost Man Found
Himself · (10 episodes)
2022
Teen Regime
Washida Tsuguaki · (5 episodes)
2022
Ten Count to the Future
Kenzo Ashiya · (9 episodes)
2022
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Shop Owner
2021
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ) · (6 episodes)
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
old man
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Old Man
2021
空蝉の森
Police Inspector kariya shinichi
2021
The End of the Tiny World
Kawabata
2021
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
Kawabata · (3 episodes)
2021
てにあまる
(1 episode)
2021
Underdog: Part One
Sakuro
2020
Underdog: Part Two
Sakuro
2020
Wonderful Paradise
Homeless
2020
Living in the Sky
Concierge Kondo
2020
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
I Never Shot Anyone
Takashi Renjo
2020
Stardust Over The Town
Kumabe Rokuzo
2020
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
The Promised Land
Goro Fujiki
2019
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi
2019
Banjo no Himawari
(4 episodes)
2019
It Feels So Good
Kenji's Father (voice)
2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Urakusai
2019
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
铃本茂树 · (6 episodes)
2019
Godot of the Emotos
2019
In Hand
(1 episode)
2019
Castle of Sand
Chiyokichi
2019
Oz Land
Boss
2018
Good Doctor
Akira Shiga · (10 episodes)
2018
Recall
Seiji Nomura
2018
Shoplifters
Yoritsugu Kawado
2018
Color Me True
Tadashi Honda
2018
Evil and The Mask
Detective Aida
2018
Segodon
Ryu Samin · (2 episodes)
2018
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
Home Sweet Tokyo
[Ramen Shop Owner] · (1 episode)
2017
Mukoku
Seppo Mitsumura
2017
Neko Ninja
Kariyazaki
2017
Lu Over the Wall
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
2017
The Dog Bridegroom
Kenkichi Okumura
2017
Frankenstein's Love
Tsurumaru · (10 episodes)
2017
Random Lives
Hanamura
2017
A Life
Danjo Toranosuke · (10 episodes)
2017
Silver and Gold
Hitoshi Kuramae · (4 episodes)
2017
Survival Family
Sasaki Shigeomi
2016
Shippu Rondo
Masaomi Togo
2016
Sniper
Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016
Black Widow Business
Jun Sakurada
2016
A Grain of Wheat
Honda
2016
Shin Godzilla
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
2016
The Mohican Comes Home
Osamu Tamura
2016
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Sfar · (9 episodes)
2016
Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru
(2 episodes)
2016
Love That Makes You Cry
Masahiko Hayashida · (10 episodes)
2016
A Living Promise
Zenzo Takeda
2016
The Big Bee
Murofushi
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Kumaji Ueda
2015
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
Priest Soutatsu
2015
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
(1 episode)
2015
A House on a Hill
Yoshitarō Terashima
2014
The Long Goodbye
Heizo Harada · (5 episodes)
2014
Sleeping Forest
Daisuke Ota
2014
Olympic Ransom
(2 episodes)
2013
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
Hanzawa Naoki
Keiji Minobe · (10 episodes)
2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
(3 episodes)
2013
Black Kite
Kaiun · (10 episodes)
2013
Platinum Town
(5 episodes)
2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Seijiro Nose
2012
Folktales from Japan
(346 episodes)
2012
A Sower of Seeds
Shuzo Morikawa
2012
Humanoid Monster Bem
Nameless Man · (10 episodes)
2011
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
Shogo Ooiwa · (10 episodes)
2011
Shikei Kijun
Kyusaku Tsushima
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
wet guy
2011
Mori no Asagao
Keizukuri Hukahori · (10 episodes)
2010
Elevator to the Gallows
2010
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
(2 episodes)
2010
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
Absolute Zero
Sosuke Kagami · (11 episodes)
2010
Yona Yona Penguin
Jii (voice)
2009
Clouds Over the Hill
乃木知幸介 · (9 episodes)
2009
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Shotaro
2009
Happy Flight
Saito
2008
Ties of Shooting Stars
Togami Masayuki · (10 episodes)
2008
Teacher and Three Children
Yoshio Ichikawa
2008
Prodigy
Hisashi Kikuna
2007
Three for the Road
2007
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
(15 episodes)
2006
Love and Glory
Hideyoshi Toyotomi · (49 episodes)
2006
Haru and Natsu
Kotaro Nakayama · (5 episodes)
2005
Love Is Five Seven Five
Grandfather
2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Yunosuke Otsuka
2005
Takada Wataru Teki
Self
2004
Drugstore Girl
Koji Nabeshima
2004
Zebraman
Kitahara the Crab Man
2004
Winning Pass
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
Neko
2004
竜馬がゆく
(4 episodes)
2004
Hana
Hiroshi Torigoe
2003
Doppelganger
Murakami
2003
Love & War of a Samurai
(7 episodes)
2003
Water Boys
Mama (of a bar) · (11 episodes)
2003
Samurai Resurrection
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
2003
Teacher's suitcase
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
(4 episodes)
2002
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Hyoue Yarikura · (9 episodes)
2002
11’09”01—September 11
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
2002
The Private Detective Mike
(1 episode)
2002
Prince Shotoku
Anahobe no miko · (2 episodes)
2001
Waterboys
Mama
2001
Kaza-hana
Hot Spring Inn Owner
2001
Nagisa
Priest
2000
Another Heaven
Doctor Akagi
2000
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Matashichi
1999
Round About Midnight
Totsuka
1999
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
(11 episodes)
1999
Genroku Ryoran
Genshiro · (49 episodes)
1999
Yanchakure
水嶋钦一 · (150 episodes)
1998
Love Letter
1998
Body and Soul
1997
The Key
Soichiro Anzai
1997
Free and Easy 8
Yukawa
1996
Shall We Dance?
Detective Miwa
1996
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
Tokugawa Munenao · (48 episodes)
1995
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Narrator (voice)
1993
Family Court Judge
Shibuya Naomasa · (12 episodes)
1993
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Kogoro Katsura
1991
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Goodbye Mama
1991
Taiheiki
Moronao Kô-no · (49 episodes)
1991
Maria's Stomach
1990
Universal Laws
1990
Battle Heater
Riichi Hama
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Hyoma Sakaguchi
1989
Harimao
Army Major
1989
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Maeo
1989
Revolver
Keisuke Mineya
1988
The Yen Family
Shinichi Amemiya
1988
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Yakuza
1988
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Bedtime Eyes
1987
A Tale of Young Elopement
Matsuda
1987
Congratulatory Speech
Yasuhei Higashida
1985
The Second Is a Christian
Kumashiro
1985
Capone Cries a Lot
Ushiemon
1985
水曜ドラマスペシャル
(1 episode)
1984
Location
Konno
1984
Make-Up
Kikuo Tsutano
1984
Legend of the Cat Monster
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
1983
Double Bed
Tôru Yamazaki
1983
Amagi Pass
1983
The Man from Shimizu
1982
Suspicion
Shigekazu Akitani
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Kondo
1982
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Detective Kuroki
1981
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Kantarô Iwata
1979
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Daigorô Hatayama
1979