Akira Emoto
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1948
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,…
Known for
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Dr. Akagi
1998
The Last Frankenstein
1991
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
Teacher and Three Children
2008
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
Godot of the Emotos
2019
Rotting
2024
Living Rights
2015
One Day in January
2012
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
Present for You
2015
The Go Master
2007
A House on a Hill
2014
Drugstore Girl
2004
Maria's Stomach
1990
The Second Is a Christian
1985
Battle Heater
1989
Hana
2003
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
A Grain of Wheat
2016
Neko Ninja
2017
The Key
1997
Teacher's suitcase
2003
The Eel
1997
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
Manhattan Kiss
1992
April Bride
2009
Unforgiven
2013
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Owl
2003
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
Barber's Sorrow
2002
All Around Us
2008
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Harimao
1989
Random Lives
2017
Free and Easy 8
1996
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Body and Soul
1997
Three for the Road
2007
Universal Laws
1990
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
It Feels So Good
2019
あじさい色のレディ
1988
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Starfish Hotel
2007
Goal of the Sky
2023
The Lightning Tree
2010
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
The War and a Woman
2013
The Innocent Game
2023
Private Lessons II
1993
Will to Live
1999
Postcard
2010
Cold
2014
Moon & Cherry
2004
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Location
1984
Suspicion
1982
Double Bed
1983
Evil and The Mask
2018
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
Turn
2001
Rain Fall
2009
Maborosi
1995
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
The Friends
1994
Cast Me If You Can
2010
The Taste of Fish
2008
The Shadow Spirit
2007
KT
2002
0.5 mm
2014
The Happiness
2006
Abduction
1997
Rental Family
2025
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
2015
The Yen Family
1988
Maru
2024
Lu Over the Wall
2017
Revolver
1988
Bedtime Eyes
1987
A Sower of Seeds
2012
Winning Pass
2004
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Shall We Dance?
1996
The Boy and the Dog
2025
The Chasing World
2008
The Silk Road
1988
Ace Attorney
2012
River of First Love
2004
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Roar of the Crowd
1990
Round About Midnight
1999
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
Doppelgänger
2003
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Goodbye Mama
1991
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Oz Land
2018
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
Hard Days
2023
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Golden Slumber
2010
In His Chart
2011
For the coming day
2005
September 1923
2023
Lovers Lost
1982
Yellow Elephant
2013
Life Back Then
2011
Oh! Father
2014
Memories of Matsuko
2006
After the Flowers
2010
Beijing Watermelon
1989
It's Only Talk
2006
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
Egoist
2023
Ripples
2023
Love Letter
1998
Color Me True
2018
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
Make-Up
1984
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
The Master Plan
2021
Utsusemi no mori
2021
The God of Curling
2024
The Final Piece
2025
Umami
2023
Haru's Journey
2010
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
Shylock's Children
2023
The Whispered City
2000
Japan Sinks
2006
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
Vampire in Love
2015
Congratulatory Speech
1985
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
Wonderful Paradise
2020
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
The Wandering Moon
2022
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
A Lone Scalpel
2010
The Man from Shimizu
1982
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
Mukoku
2017
The Promised Land
2019
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Zatoichi
2003
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Wood Job!
2014
Scrap Heaven
2005
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
Living in the Sky
2020
Stardust over the Town
2020
A Man
2022
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
John Rabe
2009
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
A Living Promise
2016
September 11
2002
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
Castle of Sand
2019
Zebraman
2004
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
Underdog: Part Two
2020
The Partner
2013
Your Friend
2008
The City of Lost Souls
2000
The Setting Sun
2022
No Place to Go
2022
Nagisa
2000
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
Recall
2018
Sniper
2016
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Underdog: Part One
2020
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Samurai Resurrection
2003
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
Time Trip App
2014
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
Another Heaven
2000
Shikei Kijun
2011
Survival Family
2017
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Noise
2022
The Great Yokai War
2005
Worst by Chance
2003
Do Unto Others
2023
The Big Bee
2015
Shin Godzilla
2016
Kaza-hana
2001
Shoplifters
2018
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
As the River Flows
2000
Touken Ranbu 2
2023
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
ICHI
2008
Villain
2010
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
Sleeping Forest
2014
Samurai Fury
2025
Heaven's Story
2010
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
One Last Throw
2025
Fancy Dance
1989
Black Widow Business
2016
Shippu Rondo
2016
Amagi Pass
1983
A Crowd of Three
2010
Journey to the Shore
2015
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
Prodigy
2007
Happy Flight
2008
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
Waterboys
2001
The Motive
2004
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Banjo no Himawari
2019
Water Boys
2003
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Love and Glory
2006
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
Segodon
2018
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
The Private Detective Mike
2002
The Long Goodbye
2014
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
Haru and Natsu
2005
てにあまる
2021
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011
Olympic Ransom
2013
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
A Life
2017
Frankenstein's Love
2017
Family Court Judge
1993
満天のゴール
2023
Ten Count to the Future
2022
In Hand
2019
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
Silver and Gold
2017
Absolute Zero
2010
Good Doctor
2018
Teen Regime
2022
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
Folktales from Japan
2012
混声の森
2022
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Yanchakure
1998
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011
Black Kite
2013
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
Goodbye My Dear
2022
Japanese Style
2022
Lost Man Found
2022
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
Prince Shotoku
2001
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015
Platinum Town
2012
Mori no Asagao
2010
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019
竜馬がゆく
2004
Get Ready!
2023
JK to Roppozensho
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
Taiheiki
1991
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995
Arashi no Namida
2016
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
疑惑
2012
ホットドッグ
1990
愛の流刑地
2007
A Woman from Ashio
2014
Scandal Eve
2025
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026
無垢なる証人
2026