Akira Emoto
Born:11/3/1948
Place of Birth:Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
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
The Innocent Game
20235.3
September 1923
20236.5
Goal of the Sky
20230.0
Ripples
20236.4
Hard Days
20236.6
Touken Ranbu 2
20235.0
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
20236.8
Shylock's Children
20237.6
Egoist
20237.6
Umami
20235.6
The Setting Sun
20226.0
Wandering
20226.5
海の見える理髪店
20220.0
Noise
20225.8
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
20210.0
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
20210.0
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
20197.2
Journey to the Shore
20156.5
Vampire in Love
20157.0
Living Rights
20150.0
A House on a Hill
20140.0
0.5 mm
20147.3
Cold
20140.0
Time Trip App
20146.0
Oh! Father
20145.5
Wood Job!
20147.4
A Woman from Ashio
20149.0
Sleeping Forest
20147.0
Present for You
20130.0
Unforgiven
20137.0
The War and a Woman
20134.2
Yellow Elephant
20136.0
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
20130.0
Humanoid Monster, Bem
20126.2
One Day in January
20120.0
The Life of Budori Gusuko
20126.7
Ace Attorney
20126.1
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
20116.5
Life Back Then
20114.8
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
20115.9
In His Chart
20114.9
Ninja Kids!!!
20115.8
Postcard
20105.4
Cast Me If You Can
20107.5
The Lightning Tree
20106.4
Sakurada Gate Incident
20107.7
Heaven's Story
20105.8
Villain
20106.6
A Crowd of Three
20104.9
A Lone Scalpel
20106.4
Haru's Journey
20106.5
After the Flowers
20107.3
Golden Slumber
20107.1
April Bride
20096.8
Rain Fall
20094.7
John Rabe
20097.1
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
20098.0
ICHI
20086.8
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
20086.5
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
20080.0
The Taste of Fish
20087.0
All Around Us
20087.4
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
20086.1
The Chasing World
20085.8
The Shadow Spirit
20075.3
Life Can Be So Wonderful
20077.0
The Go Master
20076.3
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
20076.9
Starfish Hotel
20076.8
The Happiness
20060.0
Japan Sinks
20065.5
It's Only Talk
20066.5
Memories of Matsuko
20067.7
Scrap Heaven
20057.2
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
20056.3
The Great Yokai War
20056.3
For the coming day
20050.0
Moon and Cherry
20046.0
The Motive
20046.4
River of First Love
20046.7
The Lakeside Murder Case
20046.4
Worst by Chance
20030.0
Zatoichi
20037.2
Farewell, Kuro
20036.8
Owl
20037.0
Barber's Sorrow
20020.0
KT
20025.5
Turn
20016.8
The City of Lost Souls
20006.2
The Whispered City
20009.0
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
19995.9
Will to Live
19996.3
Dr. Akagi
19986.6
Abduction
19970.0
The Eel
19977.0
The Rainbow Seeker
19960.0
Maborosi
19957.4
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
19946.8
The Friends
19947.2
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
19930.0
Private Lessons II
19932.5
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
19922.0
Manhattan Kiss
19920.0
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
19926.6
The Last Frankenstein
19916.0
Betrayal tomorrow
19900.0
Roar of the Crowd
19900.0
Fancy Dance
19896.8
Beijing Watermelon
19896.3
The Silk Road
19886.5
The Great Department Store Robbery
19870.0
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
19851.0
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
19796.9
Rental Family
NaN0.0
The Boy and the Dog
20257.7
Muromachi Burai
20259.3
Maru
20246.0
Migawari Mission
20246.5
Do Unto Others
20237.8
A Man
20227.0
No Place to Go
20226.0
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
20216.6
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
20216.3
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
20216.3
空蝉の森
20210.0
The End of the Tiny World
20217.8
Underdog: Part One
20206.9
Underdog: Part Two
20206.0
Wonderful Paradise
20206.7
Living in the Sky
20207.3
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
20202.5
I Never Shot Anyone
20207.0
Stardust Over The Town
20206.0
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
20190.0
The Promised Land
20196.4
Show Me the Way to the Station
20196.7
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
20196.8
It Feels So Good
20196.5
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
20197.7
Godot of the Emotos
20190.0
Castle of Sand
20198.7
Oz Land
20187.2
Recall
20186.8
Shoplifters
20187.9
Color Me True
20187.6
Evil and The Mask
20187.2
Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
201710.0
Mukoku
20176.2
Neko Ninja
20173.0
Lu Over the Wall
20177.1
The Dog Bridegroom
20170.0
Random Lives
20170.0
Survival Family
20167.3
Shippu Rondo
20166.7
Sniper
20160.0
Black Widow Business
20168.5
A Grain of Wheat
20160.0
Shin Godzilla
20167.2
The Mohican Comes Home
20166.1
A Living Promise
20160.0
The Big Bee
20155.9
The Pearls of the Stone Man
20158.3
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
20157.4
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
20130.0
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
20126.6
A Sower of Seeds
20120.0
Shikei Kijun
20110.0
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
20118.5
Elevator to the Gallows
20106.5
Hutch the Honeybee
20106.5
Yona Yona Penguin
20095.3
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
20090.0
Happy Flight
20086.3
Teacher and Three Children
20086.0
Prodigy
20077.1
Three for the Road
20074.0
The Summer of Stickleback
20060.0
Love Is Five Seven Five
20057.5
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
20056.0
Takada Wataru Teki
20040.0
Drugstore Girl
20045.2
Zebraman
20046.3
Winning Pass
20040.0
The Hunter and the Hunted
20040.0
Hana
20030.0
Doppelganger
20037.0
Samurai Resurrection
20035.0
Teacher's suitcase
20037.0
11’09”01—September 11
20026.4
Waterboys
20016.6
Kaza-hana
20015.8
Nagisa
20007.2
Another Heaven
20006.1
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
19990.0
Round About Midnight
19996.8
Love Letter
19980.0
Body and Soul
19971.0
The Key
19974.9
Free and Easy 8
19967.5
Shall We Dance?
19967.3
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
19936.7
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
19917.0
Dance till Tomorrow
19910.0
Goodbye Mama
19910.0
Maria's Stomach
19900.0
Universal Laws
19900.0
Battle Heater
19897.2
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
19898.0
Harimao
19898.0
Mottomo Abunai Deka
19898.0
Revolver
19886.7
The Yen Family
19885.9
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
19886.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
19875.4
Bedtime Eyes
19873.3
A Tale of Young Elopement
19870.0
Congratulatory Speech
19850.0
The Second Is a Christian
19855.0
Capone Cries a Lot
19855.7
Location
19848.0
Make-Up
19840.0
Legend of the Cat Monster
19830.0
Double Bed
19835.5
Amagi Pass
19836.7
The Man from Shimizu
19820.0
Suspicion
19826.7
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
19828.0
Lovers Lost
19827.1
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
19816.9
Disciples of Hippocrates
19806.4
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
19790.0
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
19790.0