Akira Emoto
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1948
Place of birth: Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Filmography
244 movies · 67 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026
8.0
Convenience Store Kyodai
2026
NR
無垢なる証人
2026
3.0
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
7.0
One Last Throw
2025
7.7
Rental Family
2025
8.0
Scandal Eve
2025
7.7
The Final Piece
2025
8.0
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
7.1
The Boy and the Dog
2025
8.0
Samurai Fury
2025
NR
The God of Curling
2024
6.0
Maru
2024
8.0
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
3.0
JK to Roppozensho
2024
6.5
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024
5.3
The Innocent Game
2023
NR
満天のゴール
2023
6.5
September 1923
2023
NR
Goal of the Sky
2023
6.5
Ripples
2023
6.6
Hard Days
2023
5.0
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
2023
7.5
Do Unto Others
2023
7.1
Yudo
2023
7.4
Shylock's Children
2023
7.0
Egoist
2023
5.8
Umami
2023
7.8
Get Ready!
2023
7.1
A Man
2022
6.0
The Setting Sun
2022
6.0
Japanese Style
2022
6.0
No Place to Go
2022
7.0
Goodbye My Dear
2022
6.0
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
2022
NR
混声の森
2022
8.1
Lost Man Found
2022
6.6
The Wandering Moon
2022
NR
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022
7.5
Teen Regime
2022
7.5
Ten Count to the Future
2022
5.9
Noise
2022
NR
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
6.7
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
NR
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
2021
NR
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
6.2
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
NR
Utsusemi no mori
2021
7.7
The Master Plan
2021
9.0
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
2021
NR
てにあまる
2021
7.2
Underdog: Part One
2020
7.0
Underdog: Part Two
2020
6.7
Wonderful Paradise
2020
7.4
Living in the Sky
2020
2.5
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
7.0
I Never Shot Anyone
2020
6.2
Stardust over the Town
2020
NR
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
6.0
The Promised Land
2019
6.5
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
6.8
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
8.0
Banjo no Himawari
2019
6.6
It Feels So Good
2019
7.8
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
8.2
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
2019
NR
Godot of the Emotos
2019
7.8
In Hand
2019
8.7
Castle of Sand
2019
7.2
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
7.4
Oz Land
2018
8.1
Good Doctor
2018
6.8
Recall
2018
7.8
Shoplifters
2018
7.5
Color Me True
2018
7.2
Evil and The Mask
2018
8.3
Segodon
2018
10.0
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
NR
Home Sweet Tokyo
2017
6.8
Mukoku
2017
4.5
Neko Ninja
2017
7.0
Lu Over the Wall
2017
NR
The Dog Bridegroom
2017
7.0
Frankenstein's Love
2017
7.3
Survival Family
2017
NR
Random Lives
2017
7.0
A Life: A Love
2017
6.7
Silver and Gold
2017
6.0
Shippu Rondo
2016
NR
Sniper
2016
8.5
Black Widow Business
2016
NR
A Grain of Wheat
2016
7.2
Shin Godzilla
2016
5.8
The Mohican Comes Home
2016
7.7
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
NR
Arashi no Namida
2016
8.1
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
NR
A Living Promise
2016
6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015
5.7
The Big Bee
2015
8.3
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
6.9
Vampire in Love
2015
7.7
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
2015
NR
Living Rights
2015
NR
Present for You
2015
8.8
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015NR
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2015
NR
A House on a Hill
2014
7.4
0.5 mm
2014
NR
Cold
2014
6.0
Time Trip App
2014
5.5
Oh! Father
2014
7.4
Wood Job!
2014
6.8
The Long Goodbye
2014
NR
A Woman from Ashio
2014
7.1
Sleeping Forest
2014
NR
Olympic Ransom
2013
NR
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
NR
The Partner
2013
7.0
Unforgiven
2013
7.3
Ask This of Rikyu
2013
8.3
Hanzawa Naoki
2013
4.2
The War and a Woman
2013
9.0
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
5.9
Yellow Elephant
2013
8.5
Black Kite
2013
NR
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
6.2
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
8.0
One Day in January
2012NR
疑惑
2012
6.5
Platinum Town
2012
6.5
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
7.0
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
9.0
Folktales from Japan
2012
NR
A Sower of Seeds
2012
6.1
Ace Attorney
2012
6.3
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
4.4
Life Back Then
2011
7.0
Humanoid Monster Bem
2011
5.9
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
8.0
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011
NR
Shikei Kijun
2011
4.9
In His Chart
2011
5.8
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
8.5
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
5.8
Postcard
2010
7.5
Cast Me If You Can
2010
7.0
The Lightning Tree
2010
10.0
Mori no Asagao
2010
7.4
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
6.6
Ekeb of Dekye
2010
7.2
Heaven's Story
2010
NR
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
6.8
Villain
2010
5.0
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
4.9
A Crowd of Three
2010
6.5
A Lone Scalpel
2010
6.6
Haru's Journey
2010
7.8
Absolute Zero
2010
7.3
After the Flowers
2010
7.1
Golden Slumber
2010
5.3
Yona Yona Penguin
2009
7.7
Clouds Over the Hill
2009
NR
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
6.8
April Bride
2009
4.7
Rain Fall
2009
7.1
John Rabe
2009
8.8
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
6.4
Happy Flight
2008
6.7
ICHI
2008
7.6
Ties of Shooting Stars
2008
6.0
Teacher and Three Children
2008
6.6
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
NR
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
5.1
Your Friend
2008
7.0
The Taste of Fish
2008
7.4
All Around Us
2008
5.6
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
5.7
The Chasing World
2008
5.3
The Shadow Spirit
2007
7.4
Prodigy
2007
7.0
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
3.0
Three for the Road
2007
6.5
The Go Master
2007
6.9
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
NR
愛の流刑地
2007
6.2
Starfish Hotel
2007
NR
The Happiness
2006NR
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
5.6
Japan Sinks
2006
6.3
It's Only Talk
2006
7.8
Memories of Matsuko
2006
6.5
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
7.0
Love and Glory
2006
7.6
Scrap Heaven
2005
7.8
Haru and Natsu
2005
6.0
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
6.3
The Great Yokai War
2005NR
For the coming day
2005
7.5
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
6.0
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
6.5
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005
6.0
Moon & Cherry
2004
6.9
The Motive
2004
6.8
River of First Love
2004
7.2
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
NR
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
5.2
Drugstore Girl
2004
6.3
Zebraman
2004
NR
Winning Pass
2004
10.0
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
NR
竜馬がゆく
2004
NR
Hana
2003
6.9
Doppelgänger
2003
9.0
Worst by Chance
2003
7.2
Zatoichi
2003
8.0
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
7.2
Farewell, Kuro
2003
7.2
Water Boys
2003
4.9
Samurai Resurrection
2003
7.0
Teacher's suitcase
2003
6.4
Owl
2003
8.0
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
8.0
Barber's Sorrow
2002
7.5
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
6.4
September 11
2002
8.5
The Private Detective Mike
2002
6.7
KT
2002
7.5
Prince Shotoku
2001
6.8
Turn
2001
6.5
Waterboys
2001
5.6
Kaza-hana
2001
6.2
The City of Lost Souls
2000
9.0
The Whispered City
2000
7.0
Nagisa
2000
6.0
Another Heaven
2000
9.0
As the River Flows
2000
6.1
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
9.0
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
7.0
Round About Midnight
1999
8.0
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
6.4
Will to Live
1999
7.8
Genroku Ryoran
1999
NR
Yanchakure
1998
8.0
Love Letter
1998
6.4
Dr. Akagi
1998
3.0
Body and Soul
1997
5.0
The Key
1997
8.5
Abduction
1997
6.9
The Eel
1997
7.0
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
7.3
Free and Easy 8
1996
7.5
Shall We Dance?
1996
7.5
Maborosi
1995
NR
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
1995
6.8
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
7.1
The Friends
1994
9.0
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
6.7
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
3.5
Private Lessons II
1993
9.0
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993NR
Family Court Judge
1993
6.0
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
NR
Manhattan Kiss
1992
6.8
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
7.5
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
10.0
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
5.8
The Last Frankenstein
1991
9.0
Goodbye Mama
1991
NR
Taiheiki
1991
NR
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
10.0
Maria's Stomach
1990
10.0
Roar of the Crowd
1990
NR
ホットドッグ
1990
9.0
Universal Laws
1990
6.9
Fancy Dance
1989
7.0
Beijing Watermelon
1989
7.5
Battle Heater
1989
8.7
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
8.0
Harimao
1989
8.5
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989NR
あじさい色のレディ
1988
7.3
Revolver
1988NR
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
6.5
The Silk Road
1988
6.2
The Yen Family
1988
5.9
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
9.0
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
5.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
4.7
Bedtime Eyes
1987
9.0
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
6.6
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
7.0
Congratulatory Speech
1985
6.0
The Second Is a Christian
1985
3.7
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
6.0
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
NR
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
8.5
Location
1984
10.0
Make-Up
1984
5.0
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
5.1
Double Bed
1983
6.5
Amagi Pass
1983
NR
The Man from Shimizu
1982
7.0
Suspicion
1982
8.0
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
6.5
Lovers Lost
1982
7.0
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
6.8
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
8.0
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
NR
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
6.1
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979