Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 03, 1948
Place of Birth
Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Credits
312 titles
Akira Emoto
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
Kyoto Hippocrates
Convenience Store Kyodai
Umeda Shohei
無垢なる証人
Hiroki Oyagi
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
One Last Throw
Kawato Kozo
Rental Family
Kikuo Hasegawa
Scandal Eve
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: The Way of the Bath
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
Himself
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
Utsusemi no mori
Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
Kawabata