
Akira Emoto
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 ForActing
- Born3 November 1948 (age 77)
- Place of BirthChūō, Tokyo, Japan
Akira Emoto

- Known ForActing
- Born3 November 1948 (age 77)
- Place of BirthChūō, Tokyo, Japan

Muromachi Burai
2025

The Boy and the Dog
2025

Migawari Mission
2024

Maru
2024

Umami
2023

Hard Days
2023

Goal of the Sky
2023

September 1923
2023

Touken Ranbu 2
2023

The Innocent Game
2023

Shylock's Children
2023

Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023

Egoist
2023

Ripples
2023

Do Unto Others
2023

Noise
2022

The Setting Sun
2022

Wandering
2022

海の見える理髪店
2022

No Place to Go
2022

A Man
2022

Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021

祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021

The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021

The End of the Tiny World
2021

空蝉の森
2021

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020

Living in the Sky
2020

Underdog: Part One
2020

Stardust Over The Town
2020

I Never Shot Anyone
2020

Wonderful Paradise
2020

Underdog: Part Two
2020

BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019

Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019

Castle of Sand
2019

They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019

The Promised Land
2019

Show Me the Way to the Station
2019

Godot of the Emotos
2019

It Feels So Good
2019

Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019

Color Me True
2018

Evil and The Mask
2018

Shoplifters
2018

Recall
2018

Oz Land
2018

Lu Over the Wall
2017

Mukoku
2017

Random Lives
2017

Neko Ninja
2017

Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
2017

The Dog Bridegroom
2017

The Mohican Comes Home
2016

Shin Godzilla
2016

Black Widow Business
2016

Shippu Rondo
2016

A Living Promise
2016

A Grain of Wheat
2016

Sniper
2016

Survival Family
2016

Living Rights
2015

Journey to the Shore
2015

Vampire in Love
2015

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015

The Big Bee
2015

The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
A Woman from Ashio
2014

Wood Job!
2014

0.5 mm
2014

Oh! Father
2014

Cold
2014

Time Trip App
2014

A House on a Hill
2014

Sleeping Forest
2014

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013

Unforgiven
2013

Yellow Elephant
2013

The War and a Woman
2013

Present for You
2013

Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013

The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012

One Day in January
2012

Ace Attorney
2012

Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012

A Sower of Seeds
2012

Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012

In His Chart
2011

Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011

Life Back Then
2011

Ninja Kids!!!
2011

A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011

Shikei Kijun
2011

A Crowd of Three
2010

Villain
2010

Sakurada Gate Incident
2010

Golden Slumber
2010

Haru's Journey
2010

Cast Me If You Can
2010

The Lightning Tree
2010

Postcard
2010

After the Flowers
2010

A Lone Scalpel
2010

Heaven's Story
2010

Elevator to the Gallows
2010

Hutch the Honeybee
2010

Rain Fall
2009

April Bride
2009

John Rabe
2009

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009

Yona Yona Penguin
2009

Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009

ICHI
2008

The Chasing World
2008

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008

The Taste of Fish
2008

The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008

All Around Us
2008

The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008

Teacher and Three Children
2008

Happy Flight
2008

Starfish Hotel
2007

The Shadow Spirit
2007

The Go Master
2007

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007

Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007

Three for the Road
2007

Prodigy
2007

The Happiness
2006

Memories of Matsuko
2006

It's Only Talk
2006

Japan Sinks
2006
The Summer of Stickleback
2006

The Great Yokai War
2005

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
For the coming day
2005

Scrap Heaven
2005

Love Is Five Seven Five
2005

Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005

The Motive
2004

The Lakeside Murder Case
2004

River of First Love
2004

Moon and Cherry
2004

Drugstore Girl
2004

The Hunter and the Hunted
2004

Winning Pass
2004

Zebraman
2004

Takada Wataru Teki
2004

Zatoichi
2003

Worst by Chance
2003

Owl
2003

Farewell, Kuro
2003

Doppelganger
2003

Hana
2003

Teacher's suitcase
2003

Samurai Resurrection
2003

KT
2002

Barber's Sorrow
2002

11’09”01—September 11
2002

Turn
2001

Kaza-hana
2001

Waterboys
2001

The City of Lost Souls
2000

The Whispered City
2000

Nagisa
2000

Another Heaven
2000

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999

Will to Live
1999

Round About Midnight
1999

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999

Dr. Akagi
1998

Love Letter
1998

The Eel
1997

Abduction
1997

Body and Soul
1997

The Key
1997

The Rainbow Seeker
1996

Free and Easy 8
1996

Shall We Dance?
1996

Maborosi
1995

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994

The Friends
1994

Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993

Private Lessons II
1993

I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992

Manhattan Kiss
1992

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992

The Last Frankenstein
1991

Dance till Tomorrow
1991

Goodbye Mama
1991

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991

Betrayal tomorrow
1990

Roar of the Crowd
1990

Maria's Stomach
1990

Universal Laws
1990

Beijing Watermelon
1989

Fancy Dance
1989

Battle Heater
1989

Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989

Harimao
1989

Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989

The Silk Road
1988

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988

The Yen Family
1988

Revolver
1988

The Great Department Store Robbery
1987

The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987

Bedtime Eyes
1987

A Tale of Young Elopement
1987

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985

Capone Cries a Lot
1985

The Second Is a Christian
1985

Congratulatory Speech
1985

Location
1984

Make-Up
1984

Double Bed
1983

Legend of the Cat Monster
1983

Amagi Pass
1983

Lovers Lost
1982

The Man from Shimizu
1982

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982

Suspicion
1982

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981

Disciples of Hippocrates
1980

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
