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.
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Full filmography
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002) as Hyoue Yarikura
- Ten Count to the Future (2022) as Kenzo Ashiya
- Absolute Zero (2010) as Sosuke Kagami
- Hanzawa Naoki (2013) as Keiji Minobe
- The Private Detective Mike (2002)
- Segodon (2018) as Ryu Samin
- Kumokiri Nizaemon (2013)
- Clouds Over the Hill (2009) as 乃木知幸介
- Shin Godzilla (2016) as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2016) as Sfar
- Rental Family (2025) as Kikuo Hasegawa
- Olympic Ransom (2013)
- It Feels So Good (2019) as Kenji's Father (voice)
- Shoplifters (2018) as Yoritsugu Kawado
- Good Doctor (2018) as Akira Shiga
- Lost Man Found (2022) as Himself
- 竜馬がゆく (2004)
- Water Boys (2003) as Mama (of a bar)
- Zatoichi (2003) as Pub Owner
- Love That Makes You Cry (2016) as Masahiko Hayashida
- Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (2021) as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
- Get Ready! (2023) as Hiroshi Bojo
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk (2015)
- Black Kite (2013) as Kaiun