Akira Emoto
Acting • Born 1948-11-03
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.
Filmography
306 credits
Zatoichi
Movie • 2003
Pub Owner
Umami
Movie • 2023
Salaryman
Hard Days
Movie • 2023
Yutaka Senba
The Great Department Store Robbery
Movie • 1987
The Eel
Movie • 1997
Tamotsu Takasaki
A Crowd of Three
Movie • 2010
Noise
Movie • 2022
Shoji
The Life of Budori Gusuko
Movie • 2012
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
Turn
Movie • 2001
Matsubara
The Great Yokai War
Movie • 2005
Living Rights
Movie • 2015
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Movie • 2013
Lawyer
Rain Fall
Movie • 2009
Tatsu Ishikura
The City of Lost Souls
Movie • 2000
Kuwata
ICHI
Movie • 2008
Villain
Movie • 2010
Yoshio Ishibashi
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Movie • 1999
Tatsuo
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Movie • 2021
Sakurada Gate Incident
Movie • 2010
Magojiro Kaneko
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Movie • 2005
Seigo Tsuda
Worst by Chance
Movie • 2003
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Betrayal Tomorrow
Movie • 1990
One Day in January
Movie • 2012
Golden Slumber
Movie • 2010
Hodogaya Yasushi
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Movie • 1994
Major Akira Yuki
Dr. Akagi
Movie • 1998
Dr. Fuu Akagi
Maborosi
Movie • 1995
Yoshihiro
The Chasing World
Movie • 2008
Doctor
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Movie • 2008
Counselor
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Movie • 1992
Professor Tokichi Anayama
The Silk Road
Movie • 1988
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Movie • 1985
Hirofumi Maruyama
Starfish Hotel
Movie • 2007
Mr. Trickster
In His Chart
Movie • 2011
Doctor
Manhattan Kiss
Movie • 1992
April Bride
Movie • 2009
Teishi Nagashima
Ace Attorney
Movie • 2012
Saibancho (Judge)
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Movie • 2011
Dr. Akunomiya
Goal of the Sky
Movie • 2023
Haru's Journey
Movie • 2010
Michio Nakai
For the coming day
Movie • 2005
Unforgiven
Movie • 2013
Kingo Baba
The Setting Sun
Movie • 2022
Dr. Miyake
The Motive
Movie • 2004
Yoshifumi Katakura
The Friends
Movie • 1994
Nagatomo
September 1923
Movie • 2023
Teiji Igusa
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Movie • 2011
Yoneuchi
Lovers Lost
Movie • 1982
Ishizuka
Wandering
Movie • 2022
Agata
Cast Me If You Can
Movie • 2010
Homeless guy
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Movie • 2019
(voice)
The Lightning Tree
Movie • 2010
Kakunoshi Enokido
Yellow Elephant
Movie • 2013
Arechi
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
Movie • 2021
Touken Ranbu 2
Movie • 2023
Fujiwara no Michinaga
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
Movie • 2022
老店主
The War and a Woman
Movie • 2013
client of woman
The Innocent Game
Movie • 2023
Private Lessons II
Movie • 1993
Oba
The Taste of Fish
Movie • 2008
Shojiro Sanada
The Shadow Spirit
Movie • 2007
mimasaka koushirou
Owl
Movie • 2003
KT
Movie • 2002
Hiroshi Uchiyama
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Movie • 2008
Journalist
Will to Live
Movie • 1999
Doctor
Wood Job!
Movie • 2014
Toshiro Yamane
0.5 mm
Movie • 2014
Takeshi Sasaki
John Rabe
Movie • 2009
Matsui Iwane
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Movie • 1979
Daigorô Hatayama
Life Back Then
Movie • 2011
Masashi Inoue
Oh! Father
Movie • 2014
Hayashi Tomita
Postcard
Movie • 2010
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
Farewell, Kuro
Movie • 2003
Shuzo Hanazono
The Lakeside Murder Case
Movie • 2005
Tomoharu Fujima
Barber's Sorrow
Movie • 2002
Shylock's Children
Movie • 2023
Hajime Sawazaki
The Last Frankenstein
Movie • 1991
Prof. Sarusawa
The Whispered City
Movie • 2000
Toyohashi, sculptor
The Happiness
Movie • 2006
All Around Us
Movie • 2008
kunimasa Yasuda
Ninja Kids!!!
Movie • 2011
Present for You
Movie • 2015
Memories of Matsuko
Movie • 2006
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Movie • 2023
regular customer
After the Flowers
Movie • 2010
Soan Nagai
River of First Love
Movie • 2004
Hidejiro Tasaki
The Go Master
Movie • 2007
Kensaku Segoe
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Movie • 2007
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
Abduction
Movie • 1997
Beijing Watermelon
Movie • 1989
Mr. Teramoto
It's Only Talk
Movie • 2006
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Movie • 2007
Haeo
Cold
Movie • 2014
Jin Ichinose
The Rainbow Seeker
Movie • 1996
Moon & Cherry
Movie • 2004
Sakamoto
Japan Sinks
Movie • 2006
Professor Fukuhara
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
Movie • 2008
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Movie • 1992
Time Trip App
Movie • 2014
Ryuzo Yanagita
Humanoid Monster, Bem
Movie • 2012
Kao no nai otoko
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Movie • 2009
Itsuro Usui
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
Movie • 1993
A Lone Scalpel
Movie • 2010
Matsuo Okawa
Roar of the Crowd
Movie • 1990
Scrap Heaven
Movie • 2005
Detective Yabuta
Heaven's Story
Movie • 2010
Souichi
Fancy Dance
Movie • 1989
Masoho's boss
Journey to the Shore
Movie • 2015
Hoshitani
Vampire in Love
Movie • 2015
Sojiro
Egoist
Movie • 2023
Yoshio Saito
Rental Family
Movie • 2025
Kikuo Hasegawa
Ripples
Movie • 2023
Taro Kadokura
A House on a Hill
Movie • 2014
Yoshitarō Terashima
Sleeping Forest
Movie • 2014
Daisuke Ota
The Man from Shimizu
Movie • 1982
Round About Midnight
Movie • 1999
Totsuka
Love Letter
Movie • 1998
Do Unto Others
Movie • 2023
Shosaku Shiba
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
Movie • 2015
Priest Soutatsu
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Movie • 1988
Yakuza
Capone Cries a Lot
Movie • 1985
Ushiemon
No Place to Go
Movie • 2022
Bomber
Nagisa
Movie • 2000
Priest
Samurai Fury
Movie • 2025
Drugstore Girl
Movie • 2004
Koji Nabeshima
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Movie • 1981
Detective Kuroki
The Mohican Comes Home
Movie • 2016
Osamu Tamura
The Big Bee
Movie • 2015
Murofushi
The Summer of Stickleback
Movie • 2006
Shin Godzilla
Movie • 2016
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
Maria's Stomach
Movie • 1990
The Second Is a Christian
Movie • 1985
Kumashiro
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
Don't Lose Your Head!
Movie • 2024
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
Doppelganger
Movie • 2003
Murakami
Black Widow Business
Movie • 2016
Jun Sakurada
Battle Heater
Movie • 1989
Riichi Hama
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Movie • 1982
Kondo
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Movie • 1989
Hyoma Sakaguchi
Hana
Movie • 2003
Hiroshi Torigoe
The Yen Family
Movie • 1988
Shinichi Amemiya
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Movie • 2015
Kumaji Ueda
Ekeb of Dekye
Movie • 2010
Soichi Yanagimachi
Shippu Rondo
Movie • 2016
Masaomi Togo
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Movie • 2011
wet guy
Harimao
Movie • 1989
Army Major
Dance till Tomorrow
Movie • 1991
Maru
Movie • 2024
Teacher
Kaza-hana
Movie • 2001
Hot Spring Inn Owner
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Movie • 2013
Lu Over the Wall
Movie • 2017
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
Location
Movie • 1984
Konno
Waterboys
Movie • 2001
Mama
Mukoku
Movie • 2017
Seppo Mitsumura
A Living Promise
Movie • 2016
Zenzo Takeda
Revolver
Movie • 1988
Keisuke Mineya
Random Lives
Movie • 2017
Hanamura
Suspicion
Movie • 1982
Shigekazu Akitani
Double Bed
Movie • 1983
Tôru Yamazaki
Color Me True
Movie • 2018
Tadashi Honda
Teacher and Three Children
Movie • 2008
Yoshio Ichikawa
The Hunter and the Hunted
Movie • 2004
Neko
A Grain of Wheat
Movie • 2016
Honda
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Movie • 1989
Maeo
Free and Easy 8
Movie • 1996
Yukawa
Another Heaven
Movie • 2000
Doctor Akagi
Evil and The Mask
Movie • 2018
Detective Aida
Shikei Kijun
Movie • 2011
Kyusaku Tsushima
Shoplifters
Movie • 2018
Yoritsugu Kawado
Neko Ninja
Movie • 2017
Kariyazaki
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Movie • 1987
Hutch the Honeybee
Movie • 2010
Recall
Movie • 2018
Seiji Nomura
Love Is Five Seven Five
Movie • 2005
Grandfather
Bedtime Eyes
Movie • 1987
September 11
Movie • 2002
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Movie • 2019
Urakusai
Goodbye Mama
Movie • 1991
A Tale of Young Elopement
Movie • 1987
Matsuda
Sniper
Movie • 2016
Tatsuyuki Miyata
Survival Family
Movie • 2017
Sasaki Shigeomi
Yona Yona Penguin
Movie • 2009
Jii (voice)
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Movie • 1979
Kantarô Iwata
Castle of Sand
Movie • 2019
Chiyokichi
A Sower of Seeds
Movie • 2012
Shuzo Morikawa
Oz Land
Movie • 2018
Boss
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Movie • 2019
Toichi
The Promised Land
Movie • 2019
Goro Fujiki
Winning Pass
Movie • 2004
Body and Soul
Movie • 1997
Three for the Road
Movie • 2007
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Movie • 2012
Seijiro Nose
Show Me the Way to the Station
Movie • 2019
Universal Laws
Movie • 1990
The Key
Movie • 1997
Soichiro Anzai
Disciples of Hippocrates
Movie • 1980
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Movie • 1999
Matashichi
Shall We Dance?
Movie • 1996
Detective Miwa
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
Movie • 1979
Make-Up
Movie • 1984
Kikuo Tsutano
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Movie • 2020
Congratulatory Speech
Movie • 1985
Yasuhei Higashida
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Movie • 2021
Shop Owner
Legend of the Cat Monster
Movie • 1983
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Movie • 2009
Shotaro
Living in the Sky
Movie • 2020
Concierge Kondo
Godot of the Emotos
Movie • 2019
Underdog: Part One
Movie • 2020
Sakuro
Happy Flight
Movie • 2008
Saito
Stardust over the Town
Movie • 2020
Kumabe Rokuzo
Zebraman
Movie • 2004
Kitahara the Crab Man
Teacher's suitcase
Movie • 2003
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Movie • 2021
old man
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
Movie • 2017
It Feels So Good
Movie • 2019
Kenji's Father (voice)
The Dog Bridegroom
Movie • 2017
Kenkichi Okumura
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Movie • 2005
Yunosuke Otsuka
The End of the Tiny World
Movie • 2021
Kawabata
I Never Shot Anyone
Movie • 2020
Takashi Renjo
Wonderful Paradise
Movie • 2020
Homeless
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Movie • 1991
Kogoro Katsura
A Man
Movie • 2022
Norio Komiura
Prodigy
Movie • 2007
Hisashi Kikuna
The Boy and the Dog
Movie • 2025
Yaichi Katano
Utsusemi no mori
Movie • 2021
Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Movie • 2021
Old Man
Samurai Resurrection
Movie • 2003
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Amagi Pass
Movie • 1983
Takada Wataru Teki
Movie • 2004
Self
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
Movie • 2019
Underdog: Part Two
Movie • 2020
Sakuro
The Way of The Prison Guard
Movie • 2025
The God of Curling
Movie • 2024
Susumu Komiyama
Kyoto Hippocrates
Movie • 2026
The Final Piece
Movie • 2025
Motoji Kanesaki
The Partner
Movie • 2013
Ōkuma Shigenobu
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
Movie • 2026
Rotting
Movie • 2024
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Movie • 1986
One Last Throw
Movie • 2025
Kawato Kozo
Chicken Is Barefoot
Movie • 2004
Genroku Ryoran
TV • 1999
Genshiro
Banjo no Himawari
TV • 2019
Water Boys
TV • 2003
Mama (of a bar)
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
TV • 2021
Kawabata
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
TV • 2006
Love and Glory
TV • 2006
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
TV • 1999
Segodon
TV • 2018
Ryu Samin
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
TV • 2021
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
The Private Detective Mike
TV • 2002
The Long Goodbye
TV • 2014
Heizo Harada
Home Sweet Tokyo
TV • 2017
[Ramen Shop Owner]
Ties of Shooting Stars
TV • 2008
Togami Masayuki
Haru and Natsu
TV • 2005
Kotaro Nakayama
てにあまる
TV • 2021
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
TV • 2011
Shogo Ooiwa
Olympic Ransom
TV • 2013
Love That Makes You Cry
TV • 2016
Masahiko Hayashida
A Life
TV • 2017
Danjo Toranosuke
Frankenstein's Love
TV • 2017
Tsurumaru
Family Court Judge
TV • 1993
Shibuya Naomasa
満天のゴール
TV • 2023
トクじい
Ten Count to the Future
TV • 2022
Kenzo Ashiya
In Hand
TV • 2019
水曜ドラマスペシャル
TV • 1984
Silver and Gold
TV • 2017
Hitoshi Kuramae
Absolute Zero
TV • 2010
Sosuke Kagami
Good Doctor
TV • 2018
Akira Shiga
Teen Regime
TV • 2022
Washida Tsuguaki
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
TV • 2002
Hyoue Yarikura
Folktales from Japan
TV • 2012
混声の森
TV • 2022
Kumokiri Nizaemon
TV • 2013
Yanchakure
TV • 1998
水嶋钦一
Humanoid Monster Bem
TV • 2011
Nameless Man
Black Kite
TV • 2013
Kaiun
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
TV • 2022
Yotaro Befunokami
Goodbye My Dear
TV • 2022
Hiroshi Yamawaki
Japanese Style
TV • 2022
Hifuji Umekoshi
Lost Man Found
TV • 2022
Himself
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
TV • 2016
Sfar
Prince Shotoku
TV • 2001
Anahobe no miko
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
TV • 2015
Platinum Town
TV • 2012
Mori no Asagao
TV • 2010
Keizukuri Hukahori
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
TV • 2019
铃本茂树
竜馬がゆく
TV • 2004
Get Ready!
TV • 2023
Hiroshi Bojo
JK to Roppozensho
TV • 2024
桜木倫太郎
Shinjuku Field Hospital
TV • 2024
Keisuke Takamine
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
TV • 2010
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
TV • 2002
Hanzawa Naoki
TV • 2013
Keiji Minobe
Taiheiki
TV • 1991
Moronao Kô-no
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
TV • 1995
Tokugawa Munenao
Arashi no Namida
TV • 2016
Clouds Over the Hill
TV • 2009
乃木知幸介
Love & War of a Samurai
TV • 2003
あそびにおいでョ!
TV • 1988
疑惑
TV • 2012
ホットドッグ
TV • 1990
大田原輝
愛の流刑地
TV • 2007
北冈耕造
A Woman from Ashio
TV • 2014
Scandal Eve
TV • 2025
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV • 2015