Akira Emoto
- Acting
- November 3, 1948 · Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder - · Self
- あなたの息子ひき出します！
- Kyoto Hippocrates
- Convenience Store Kyodai · Umeda Shohei
- Innocent Witness · Hiroki Oyagi
- The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
- One Last Throw · Kawato Kozo
- Rental Family · Kikuo Hasegawa
- Scandal Eve · Shigeru Kodama
- The Final Piece · Motoji Kanesaki
- The Way of The Prison Guard
- The Boy and the Dog · Yaichi Katano
- Samurai Fury
- The God of Curling · Susumu Komiyama
- Maru · Teacher
- Shinjuku Field Hospital · Keisuke Takamine
- Rotting
- JK to Roppozensho · 桜木倫太郎
- Don't Lose Your Head! · Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
- The Innocent Game
- 満天のゴール · トクじい
- September 1923 · Teiji Igusa
- Goal of the Sky
- Ripples · Taro Kadokura
- Hard Days · Yutaka Senba
- Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn- · Fujiwara no Michinaga
- Do Unto Others · Shosaku Shiba
- Yudo · regular customer
- Shylock's Children · Hajime Sawazaki
- Egoist · Yoshio Saito
- Umami · Salaryman
- Get Ready! · Hiroshi Bojo
- A Man · Norio Komiura
- The Setting Sun · Dr. Miyake
- Japanese Style · Hifuji Umekoshi
- No Place to Go · Bomber
- Goodbye My Dear · Hiroshi Yamawaki
- The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors · Yotaro Befunokami
- 混声の森
- Lost Man Found · Self
- The Wandering Moon · Agata
- Barber Shop with a View of the Sea · 老店主
- Teen Regime · Washida Tsuguaki
- Ten Count to the Future · Kenzo Ashiya
- Noise · Shoji
- Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
- Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai · Shop Owner
- Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses · Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
- 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
- The Great Yokai War: Guardians · old man, Old Man
- Utsusemi no mori · Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
- The Master Plan · Kawabata
- Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later · Kawabata
- てにあまる
- Underdog: Part One · Sakuro
- Underdog: Part Two · Sakuro
- Wonderful Paradise · Homeless
- Living in the Sky · Concierge Kondo
- Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
- I Never Shot Anyone · Takashi Renjo
- Stardust over the Town · Kumabe Rokuzo
- Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
- The Promised Land · Goro Fujiki
- Show Me the Way to the Station
- They Say Nothing Stays the Same · Toichi
- Banjo no Himawari
- It Feels So Good · Kenji's Father (Voice)
- Iwane: Sword of Serenity · Urakusai
- Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation · 铃本茂树
- Godot of the Emotos
- In Hand
- Castle of Sand · Chiyokichi
- BON-UTA, A Song from Home · Voice
- Oz Land · Boss
- Good Doctor · Akira Shiga
- Recall · Seiji Nomura
- Shoplifters · Yoritsugu Kawado
- Color Me True · Tadashi Honda
- Evil and The Mask · Detective Aida
- Segodon · Ryu Samin