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Akira Emoto
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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 7t…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Akira Emoto's Filmography
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Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
as Self
あなたの息子ひき出します！
Kyoto Hippocrates
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
One Last Throw
as Kawato Kozo
Rental Family
as Kikuo Hasegawa
The Final Piece
as Motoji Kanesaki
The Way of The Prison Guard
The Boy and the Dog
as Yaichi Katano
Samurai Fury
The God of Curling
as Susumu Komiyama
Maru
as Teacher
Rotting
Don't Lose Your Head!
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
The Innocent Game
September 1923
as Teiji Igusa
Goal of the Sky
Ripples
as Taro Kadokura
Hard Days
as Yutaka Senba
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
as Fujiwara no Michinaga
Do Unto Others
as Shosaku Shiba
Yudo
as regular customer
Shylock's Children
as Hajime Sawazaki
Egoist
as Yoshio Saito
Umami
as Salaryman
A Man
as Norio Komiura
The Setting Sun
as Dr. Miyake
No Place to Go
as Bomber
The Wandering Moon
as Agata
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
as 老店主
Noise
as Shoji
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as Shop Owner
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as old man
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as Old Man
Utsusemi no mori
as Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
The Master Plan
as Kawabata
Underdog: Part One
as Sakuro
Underdog: Part Two
as Sakuro
Wonderful Paradise
as Homeless
Living in the Sky
as Concierge Kondo
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
I Never Shot Anyone
as Takashi Renjo
Stardust over the Town
as Kumabe Rokuzo
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
The Promised Land
as Goro Fujiki
Show Me the Way to the Station
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as Toichi
It Feels So Good
as Kenji's Father (voice)
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
as Urakusai
Godot of the Emotos
Castle of Sand
as Chiyokichi
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
Oz Land
as Boss
Recall
as Seiji Nomura
Shoplifters
as Yoritsugu Kawado
Color Me True
as Tadashi Honda
Evil and The Mask
as Detective Aida
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
Mukoku
as Seppo Mitsumura
Neko Ninja
as Kariyazaki
Lu Over the Wall
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
The Dog Bridegroom
as Kenkichi Okumura
Survival Family
as Sasaki Shigeomi
Random Lives
as Hanamura
Shippu Rondo
as Masaomi Togo
Sniper
as Tatsuyuki Miyata
Black Widow Business
as Jun Sakurada
A Grain of Wheat
as Honda
Shin Godzilla
as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
The Mohican Comes Home
as Osamu Tamura
A Living Promise
as Zenzo Takeda
Journey to the Shore
as Hoshitani
The Big Bee
as Murofushi
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Kumaji Ueda
Vampire in Love
as Sojiro
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
as Priest Soutatsu
Living Rights
Present for You
A House on a Hill
as Yoshitarō Terashima
0.5 mm
as Takeshi Sasaki
Cold
as Jin Ichinose
Time Trip App
as Ryuzo Yanagita
Oh! Father
as Hayashi Tomita
Wood Job!
as Toshiro Yamane
Sleeping Forest
as Daisuke Ota
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
The Partner
as Ōkuma Shigenobu
Unforgiven
as Kingo Baba
Ask This of Rikyu
The War and a Woman
as client of woman
Yellow Elephant
as Arechi
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
as Lawyer
Humanoid Monster, Bem
as Kao no nai otoko
One Day in January
The Life of Budori Gusuko
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
as Seijiro Nose
A Sower of Seeds
as Shuzo Morikawa
Ace Attorney
as Saibancho (Judge)
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as Yoneuchi
Life Back Then
as Masashi Inoue
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
as Dr. Akunomiya
Shikei Kijun
as Kyusaku Tsushima
In His Chart
as Doctor
Ninja Kids!!!
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
as wet guy
Postcard
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
Cast Me If You Can
as Homeless guy
The Lightning Tree
as Kakunoshi Enokido
Sakurada Gate Incident
as Magojiro Kaneko
Ekeb of Dekye
as Soichi Yanagimachi
Heaven's Story
as Souichi
Villain
as Yoshio Ishibashi
Hutch the Honeybee
A Crowd of Three
A Lone Scalpel
as Matsuo Okawa
Haru's Journey
as Michio Nakai
After the Flowers
as Soan Nagai
Golden Slumber
as Hodogaya Yasushi
Yona Yona Penguin
as Jii (voice)
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
as Shotaro
April Bride
as Teishi Nagashima
Rain Fall
as Tatsu Ishikura
John Rabe
as Matsui Iwane
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as Itsuro Usui
Happy Flight
as Saito
ICHI
Teacher and Three Children
as Yoshio Ichikawa
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
as Counselor
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
Your Friend
All Around Us
as kunimasa Yasuda
The Taste of Fish
as Shojiro Sanada
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
as Journalist
The Chasing World
as Doctor
The Shadow Spirit
as mimasaka koushirou
Prodigy
as Hisashi Kikuna
Life Can Be So Wonderful
as Haeo
Three for the Road
The Go Master
as Kensaku Segoe
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
Starfish Hotel
as Mr. Trickster
The Happiness
No Poster
The Summer of Stickleback
Japan Sinks
as Professor Fukuhara
It's Only Talk
Memories of Matsuko
as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
Scrap Heaven
as Detective Yabuta
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
as Seigo Tsuda
The Great Yokai War
No Poster
For the coming day
Love Is Five Seven Five
as Grandfather
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
as Yunosuke Otsuka
The Lakeside Murder Case
as Tomoharu Fujima
Moon & Cherry
as Sakamoto
The Motive
as Yoshifumi Katakura
Chicken Is Barefoot
River of First Love
as Hidejiro Tasaki
Takada Wataru Teki
as Self
Drugstore Girl
as Koji Nabeshima
Zebraman
as Kitahara the Crab Man
Winning Pass
The Hunter and the Hunted
as Neko
Hana
as Hiroshi Torigoe
Doppelgänger
as Murakami
Worst by Chance
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Zatoichi
as Pub Owner
Farewell, Kuro
as Shuzo Hanazono
Samurai Resurrection
as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Teacher's suitcase
as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
Owl
Barber's Sorrow
as Sakaguchi
September 11
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
KT
as Hiroshi Uchiyama
Turn
as Matsubara
Waterboys
as Mama
Kaza-hana
as Hot Spring Inn Owner
The City of Lost Souls
as Kuwata
The Whispered City
as Toyohashi, sculptor
Nagisa
as Priest Shinto
As the River Flows
Another Heaven
as Doctor Akagi
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
as Tatsuo
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
as Matashichi
Round About Midnight
as Totsuka
Will to Live
as Doctor
Love Letter
Dr. Akagi
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
The Key
as Soichiro Anzai
Body and Soul
as Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
Abduction
as Chief Superintendent Tachibana
The Eel
as Tamotsu Takasaki
The Rainbow Seeker
Free and Easy 8
as Yukawa
Shall We Dance?
as Detective Miwa
Maborosi
as Yoshihiro
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
as Major Akira Yuki
The Friends
as Nagatomo
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
as Narrator (voice)
Private Lessons II
as Oba
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Manhattan Kiss
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Kogoro Katsura
Dance till Tomorrow
Goodbye Mama
The Last Frankenstein
as Prof. Sarusawa
Betrayal Tomorrow
Maria's Stomach
Roar of the Crowd
Universal Laws
Fancy Dance
as Masoho's boss
Beijing Watermelon
as Mr. Teramoto
Battle Heater
as Riichi Hama
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as 坂口兵马
Harimao
as Army Major
Mottomo Abunai Deka
as Maeo
No Poster
あじさい色のレディ
Revolver
as Keisuke Mineya
The Silk Road
The Yen Family
as Shinichi Amemiya
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
as Yakuza
The Great Department Store Robbery
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Bedtime Eyes
A Tale of Young Elopement
as Matsuda
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Congratulatory Speech
as Yasuhei Higashida
The Second Is a Christian
as Kumashiro
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as Hirofumi Maruyama
Capone Cries a Lot
as Ushiemon
Location
as Konno
Make-Up
as Kikuo Tsutano
Legend of the Cat Monster
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Double Bed
as Tôru Yamazaki
Amagi Pass
The Man from Shimizu
Suspicion
as Shigekazu Akitani
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as 近藤
Lovers Lost
as Ishizuka
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Detective Kuroki
Disciples of Hippocrates
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
as Kantarô Iwata
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
as Daigorô Hatayama