Old good Emo-chan of modern Japanese cinema. Emos father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mothers 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.

All movies available from Akira Emoto

Poster movie The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls

Movie
Poster movie The Friends

The Friends

Movie
Poster movie Round About Midnight

Round About Midnight

Movie

Movies unavailable from Akira Emoto

Zatoichi

Pub Owner

Movie 2003

Umami

Salaryman

Movie 2023

Hard Days

Yutaka Senba

Movie 2023

The Great Department Store Robbery

Movie 1987

The Eel

Tamotsu Takasaki

Movie 1997

A Crowd of Three

Movie 2010

Noise

Shoji

Movie 2022

The Life of Budori Gusuko

Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

Movie 2012

Turn

Matsubara

Movie 2001

The Great Yokai War

Movie 2005

Living Rights

Movie 2015

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Movie 2013

Rain Fall

Tatsu Ishikura

Movie 2009

ICHI

Movie 2008

Villain

Yoshio Ishibashi

Movie 2010

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

Tatsuo

Movie 1999

Sakurada Gate Incident

Magojiro Kaneko

Movie 2010

Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun

Movie 2021

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

Seigo Tsuda

Movie 2005

Worst by Chance

Shigeharu Kaneshiro

Movie 2003

Betrayal tomorrow

Movie 1990

One Day in January

Movie 2012

Golden Slumber

Hodogaya Yasushi

Movie 2010

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Major Akira Yuki

Movie 1994

Dr. Akagi

Dr. Fuu Akagi

Movie 1998

Maborosi

Yoshihiro

Movie 1995

The Chasing World

Doctor

Movie 2008

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

Counselor

Movie 2008

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Professor Tokichi Anayama

Movie 1992

The Silk Road

Movie 1988

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

Hirofumi Maruyama

Movie 1985

Starfish Hotel

Mr. Trickster

Movie 2007

In His Chart

Doctor

Movie 2011

Manhattan Kiss

Movie 1992

April Bride

Teishi Nagashima

Movie 2009

Ace Attorney

Saibancho (Judge)

Movie 2012

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

Dr. Akunomiya

Movie 2011

Goal of the Sky

Movie 2023

Haru's Journey

Michio Nakai

Movie 2010

For the coming day

Movie 2005

Unforgiven

Kingo Baba

Movie 2013

The Setting Sun

Dr. Miyake

Movie 2022

The Motive

Yoshifumi Katakura

Movie 2004

September 1923

Teiji Igusa

Movie 2023

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Yoneuchi

Movie 2011

Lovers Lost

Ishizuka

Movie 1982

Wandering

Agata

Movie 2022

Cast Me If You Can

Homeless guy

Movie 2010

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

(voice)

Movie 2019

The Lightning Tree

Kakunoshi Enokido

Movie 2010

A Woman from Ashio

Movie 2014

Yellow Elephant

Arechi

Movie 2013

祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

Movie 2021

Touken Ranbu 2

Movie 2023

海の見える理髪店

老店主

Movie 2022

The War and a Woman

client of woman

Movie 2013

The Innocent Game

Movie 2023

Private Lessons II

Oba

Movie 1993

The Taste of Fish

Shojiro Sanada

Movie 2008

The Shadow Spirit

mimasaka koushirou

Movie 2007

Owl

Movie 2003

KT

Hiroshi Uchiyama

Movie 2002

The Most Beautiful Night In The World

Journalist

Movie 2008

Will to Live

Doctor

Movie 1999

Wood Job!

Toshiro Yamane

Movie 2014

0.5 mm

Takeshi Sasaki

Movie 2014

John Rabe

Matsui Iwane

Movie 2009

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again

Daigorô Hatayama

Movie 1979

Life Back Then

Masashi Inoue

Movie 2011

Oh! Father

Hayashi Tomita

Movie 2014

Postcard

Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law

Movie 2010

The Lakeside Murder Case

Tomoharu Fujima

Movie 2004

Farewell, Kuro

Shuzo Hanazono

Movie 2003

Barber's Sorrow

Movie 2002

Shylock's Children

Hajime Sawazaki

Movie 2023

The Last Frankenstein

Prof. Sarusawa

Movie 1991

The Whispered City

Artist

Movie 2000

The Happiness

Movie 2006

All Around Us

kunimasa Yasuda

Movie 2008

Ninja Kids!!!

Movie 2011

Present for You

Movie 2013

Memories of Matsuko

Tsunehiro Kawajiri

Movie 2006

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

regular customer

Movie 2023

River of First Love

Hidejiro Tasaki

Movie 2004

The Go Master

Kensaku Segoe

Movie 2007

Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic

Movie 2007

After the Flowers

Soan Nagai

Movie 2010

Abduction

Movie 1997

Beijing Watermelon

Mr. Teramoto

Movie 1989

It's Only Talk

Movie 2006

Life Can Be So Wonderful

Haeo

Movie 2007

Cold

Jin Ichinose

Movie 2014

The Rainbow Seeker

Movie 1996

Moon and Cherry

Sakamoto

Movie 2004

Japan Sinks

Movie 2006

The Cycling Genius Is Coming!

Movie 2008

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

Movie 1992

Time Trip App

Ryuzo Yanagita

Movie 2014

Humanoid Monster, Bem

Kao no nai otoko

Movie 2012

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Itsuro Usui

Movie 2009

I Can Hear the Duck Singing

Movie 1993

A Lone Scalpel

Matsuo Okawa

Movie 2010

Roar of the Crowd

Movie 1990

Scrap Heaven

Detective Yabuta

Movie 2005

Heaven's Story

Souichi

Movie 2010

Fancy Dance

Masoho's boss

Movie 1989

Journey to the Shore

Mr. Hoshitani

Movie 2015

Vampire in Love

Sojiro

Movie 2015

Egoist

Yoshio Saito

Movie 2023

Rental Family

Movie

Ripples

Taro Kadokura

Movie 2023

A House on a Hill

Yoshitarō Terashima

Movie 2014

Sleeping Forest

Daisuke Ota

Movie 2014

The Man from Shimizu

Movie 1982

Love Letter

Movie 1998

Do Unto Others

Shosaku Shiba

Movie 2023

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho

Priest Soutatsu

Movie 2015

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

Yakuza

Movie 1988

Capone Cries a Lot

Ushiemon

Movie 1985

No Place to Go

Movie 2022

Nagisa

Movie 2000

Muromachi Burai

Movie 2025

Drugstore Girl

Koji Nabeshima

Movie 2004

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Detective Kuroki

Movie 1981

The Mohican Comes Home

Osamu Tamura

Movie 2016

The Big Bee

Murofushi

Movie 2015

The Summer of Stickleback

Movie 2006

Shin Godzilla

Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

Movie 2016

Maria's Stomach

Movie 1990

The Second Is a Christian

Kumashiro

Movie 1985

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

(voice)

Movie 1993

Migawari Mission

Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu

Movie 2024

Doppelganger

Murakami

Movie 2003

Black Widow Business

Jun Sakurada

Movie 2016

Battle Heater

Riichi Hama

Movie 1989

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Hyoma Sakaguchi

Movie 1989

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Kondo

Movie 1982

Hana

Hiroshi Torigoe

Movie 2003

The Yen Family

Shinichi Amemiya

Movie 1988

The Pearls of the Stone Man

Kumaji Ueda

Movie 2015

Elevator to the Gallows

Movie 2010

Shippu Rondo

Masaomi Togo

Movie 2016

A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip

wet guy

Movie 2011

Harimao

Army Major

Movie 1989

Dance till Tomorrow

Movie 1991

Maru

Movie 2024

Kaza-hana

Hot Spring Inn Owner

Movie 2000

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

Movie 2013

Lu Over the Wall

Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

Movie 2017

Location

Konno

Movie 1984

Waterboys

Mama

Movie 2001

Mukoku

Seppo Mitsumura

Movie 2017

A Living Promise

Zenzo Takeda

Movie 2016

Revolver

Keisuke Mineya

Movie 1988

Random Lives

Hanamura

Movie 2017

Suspicion

Shigekazu Akitani

Movie 1982

Double Bed

Tôru Yamazaki

Movie 1983

Color Me True

Tadashi Honda

Movie 2018

Teacher and Three Children

Yoshio Ichikawa

Movie 2008

The Hunter and the Hunted

Neko

Movie 2004

A Grain of Wheat

Honda

Movie 2016

Mottomo Abunai Deka

Maeo

Movie 1989

Free and Easy 8

Yukawa

Movie 1996

Another Heaven

Doctor Akagi

Movie 2000

Evil and The Mask

Detective Aida

Movie 2018

Shikei Kijun

Kyusaku Tsushima

Movie 2011

Shoplifters

Yoritsugu Kawado

Movie 2018

Neko Ninja

Kariyazaki

Movie 2017

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Movie 1987

Hutch the Honeybee

Movie 2010

Recall

Seiji Nomura

Movie 2018

Love Is Five Seven Five

Grandfather

Movie 2005

Bedtime Eyes

Movie 1987

11’09”01—September 11

Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Movie 2002

Iwane: Sword of Serenity

Urakusai

Movie 2019

Goodbye Mama

Movie 1991

A Tale of Young Elopement

Matsuda

Movie 1987

Sniper

Tatsuyuki Miyata

Movie 2016

Survival Family

Sasaki Shigeomi

Movie 2016

Yona Yona Penguin

Jii (voice)

Movie 2009

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

Kantarô Iwata

Movie 1979

Castle of Sand

Chiyokichi

Movie 2019

A Sower of Seeds

Shuzo Morikawa

Movie 2012

Oz Land

Boss

Movie 2018

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Toichi

Movie 2019

The Promised Land

Goro Fujiki

Movie 2019

Winning Pass

Movie 2004

Body and Soul

Movie 1997

Three for the Road

Movie 2007

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Seijiro Nose

Movie 2012

Show Me the Way to the Station

Movie 2019

The Key

Soichiro Anzai

Movie 1997

Universal Laws

Movie 1990

Disciples of Hippocrates

Movie 1980

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

Matashichi

Movie 1999

Shall We Dance?

Detective Miwa

Movie 1996

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie

Movie 1979

Make-Up

Kikuo Tsutano

Movie 1984

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity

Movie 2020

Congratulatory Speech

Yasuhei Higashida

Movie 1985

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Shop Owner

Movie 2021

Legend of the Cat Monster

Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura

Movie 1998

Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha

Shotaro

Movie 2009

Living in the Sky

Concierge Kondo

Movie 2020

Godot of the Emotos

Movie 2019

Underdog: Part One

Sakuro

Movie 2020

Happy Flight

Saito

Movie 2008

Stardust Over The Town

Kumabe Rokuzo

Movie 2020

Zebraman

Movie 2004

Teacher's suitcase

Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna

Movie 2003

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

old man

Movie 2021

Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~

Movie 2017

It Feels So Good

Kenji's Father (voice)

Movie 2019

The Dog Bridegroom

Kenkichi Okumura

Movie 2017

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

Yunosuke Otsuka

Movie 2005

The End of the Tiny World

Kawabata

Movie 2021

I Never Shot Anyone

Takashi Renjo

Movie 2020

Wonderful Paradise

Homeless

Movie 2020

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Kogoro Katsura

Movie 1991

A Man

Norio Komiura

Movie 2022

Prodigy

Hisashi Kikuna

Movie 2007

Shonen to Inu

Movie 2025

Tv series unavailable from Akira Emoto

Genroku Ryoran

Genshiro

Tv 1999

Banjo no Himawari

Tv 2019

Water Boys

Mama (of a bar)

Tv 2003

Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later

Kawabata

Tv 2021

Tokumei! Keiji Dongame

Tv 2006

Love and Glory

Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Tv 2006

Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai

Tv 1999

Segodon

Ryu Samin

Tv 2018

Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses

Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)

Tv 2021

The Private Detective Mike

Tv 2002

The Long Goodbye

Heizo Harada

Tv 2014

Home Sweet Tokyo

[Ramen Shop Owner]

Tv 2017

Ties of Shooting Stars

Togami Masayuki

Tv 2008

Haru and Natsu

Kotaro Nakayama

Tv 2005

てにあまる

Tv 2021

HUNTER - Women After Reward Money

Shogo Ooiwa

Tv 2011

オリンピックの身代金

Tv 2013

Love That Makes You Cry

Masahiko Hayashida

Tv 2016

A Life

Danjo Toranosuke

Tv 2017

Frankenstein's Love

Tsurumaru

Tv 2017

Family Court Judge

Shibuya Naomasa

Tv 1993

満天のゴール

トクじい

Tv 2023

Ten Count to the Future

Kenzo Ashiya

Tv 2022

In Hand

Tv 2019

水曜ドラマスペシャル

Tv 1984

Silver and Gold

Hitoshi Kuramae

Tv 2017

Absolute Zero

Sosuke Kagami

Tv 2010

Good Doctor

Akira Shiga

Tv 2018

Teen Regime

Washida Tsuguaki

Tv 2022

The Honest Realtor

Tetsuo Kishi

Tv 2022

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Hyoue Yarikura

Tv 2002

Folktales from Japan

Tv 2012

混声の森

Tv 2022

Kumokiri Nizaemon

Tv 2013

Yanchakure

水嶋钦一

Tv 1998

Humanoid Monster Bem

Nameless Man

Tv 2011

Black Kite

Kaiun

Tv 2013

The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors

Yotaro Befunokami

Tv 2022

Goodbye My Dear

Hiroshi Yamawaki

Tv 2022

Japanese Style

Hifuji Umekoshi

Tv 2022

Lost Man Found

Himself

Tv 2022

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Sfar

Tv 2016

Prince Shotoku

Anahobe no miko

Tv 2001

新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜

Tv 2015

Platinum Town

Tv 2012

Mori no Asagao

Keizukuri Hukahori

Tv 2010

Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation

铃本茂树

Tv 2019

竜馬がゆく

Tv 2004

Get Ready!

Hiroshi Bojo

Tv 2023

JK to Roppozensho

桜木倫太郎

Tv 2024

Shinjuku Field Hospital

Keisuke Takamine

Tv 2024

Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka

Tv 2010

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Tv 2002

Hanzawa Naoki

Keiji Minobe

Tv 2013

Taiheiki

Moronao Kô-no

Tv 1991

Eighth Shogun Yoshimune

Tokugawa Munenao

Tv 1995