People
Akira Emoto
- Name: Akira Emoto
- Birthday: 1948-11-03
- Also known as: 에모토 아키라,Акира Эмото,柄本 明
- Place of birth: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
- Popularity: 7.507
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Muromachi Burai | 2025-01-17 |
| Maru | 2024-10-18 |
| Migawari Mission as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu | 2024-02-09 |
| The Innocent Game | 2023-11-10 |
| September 1923 as Teiji Igusa | 2023-09-01 |
| Goal of the Sky | 2023-07-15 |
| Ripples as Taro Kadokura | 2023-05-26 |
| Hard Days as Yutaka Senba | 2023-05-19 |
| Touken Ranbu 2 | 2023-03-31 |
| Do Unto Others as Shosaku Shiba | 2023-03-24 |
| Yudo: The Way of the Bath as regular customer | 2023-02-23 |
| Shylock's Children as Hajime Sawazaki | 2023-02-17 |
| Egoist as Yoshio Saito | 2023-02-10 |
| Umami as Salaryman | 2023-02-09 |
| A Man as Norio Komiura | 2022-11-18 |
| The Setting Sun as Dr. Miyake | 2022-11-04 |
| No Place to Go | 2022-10-08 |
| Wandering as Agata | 2022-05-13 |
| 海の見える理髪店 as 老店主 | 2022-05-09 |
| Noise as Shoji | 2022-01-27 |
| Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun | 2021-11-17 |
| Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai as Shop Owner | 2021-10-15 |
| 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻― | 2021-08-20 |
| The Great Yokai War: Guardians as old man | 2021-07-01 |
| The End of the Tiny World as Kawabata | 2021-01-29 |
| Underdog: Part One as Sakuro | 2020-11-27 |
| Wonderful Paradise as Homeless | 2020-11-20 |
| Living in the Sky as Concierge Kondo | 2020-10-23 |
| Nosari: Impermanent Eternity | 2020-07-11 |
| I Never Shot Anyone as Takashi Renjo | 2020-07-03 |
| Stardust Over The Town as Kumabe Rokuzo | 2020-03-06 |
| Show Me the Way to the Station | 2019-10-18 |
| The Promised Land as Goro Fujiki | 2019-10-18 |
| They Say Nothing Stays the Same as Toichi | 2019-09-13 |
| It Feels So Good as Kenji's Father (voice) | 2019-08-23 |
| Iwane: Sword of Serenity as Urakusai | 2019-05-17 |
| Godot of the Emotos | 2019-04-20 |
| Castle of Sand as Chiyokichi | 2019-03-28 |
| BON-UTA, A Song from Home as (voice) | 2019-02-15 |
| Oz Land as Boss | 2018-10-26 |
| Recall as Seiji Nomura | 2018-06-15 |
| Shoplifters as Yoritsugu Kawado | 2018-06-02 |
| Color Me True as Tadashi Honda | 2018-02-10 |
| Evil and The Mask as Detective Aida | 2018-01-13 |
| Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~ | 2017-12-31 |
| Mukoku as Seppo Mitsumura | 2017-06-03 |
| Neko Ninja as Kariyazaki | 2017-05-20 |
| Lu Over the Wall as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice) | 2017-05-19 |
| The Dog Bridegroom as Kenkichi Okumura | 2017-05-13 |
| Random Lives as Hanamura | 2017-01-28 |
| Survival Family as Sasaki Shigeomi | 2016-12-12 |
| Shippu Rondo as Masaomi Togo | 2016-11-26 |
| Sniper as Tatsuyuki Miyata | 2016-10-02 |
| Black Widow Business as Jun Sakurada | 2016-08-27 |
| A Grain of Wheat as Honda | 2016-08-26 |
| Shin Godzilla as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary | 2016-07-29 |
| The Mohican Comes Home as Osamu Tamura | 2016-04-09 |
| A Living Promise as Zenzo Takeda | 2016-01-09 |
| Journey to the Shore as Mr. Hoshitani | 2015-09-30 |
| The Big Bee as Murofushi | 2015-09-12 |
| The Pearls of the Stone Man as Kumaji Ueda | 2015-06-20 |
| Vampire in Love as Sojiro | 2015-04-17 |
| GARO -Gold Storm- Sho as Priest Soutatsu | 2015-03-28 |
| Living Rights | 2015-03-07 |
| A House on a Hill as Yoshitarō Terashima | 2014-12-06 |
| 0.5 mm as Takeshi Sasaki | 2014-11-08 |
| Cold as Jin Ichinose | 2014-09-27 |
| Time Trip App as Ryuzo Yanagita | 2014-07-26 |
| Oh! Father as Hayashi Tomita | 2014-05-24 |
| Wood Job! as Toshiro Yamane | 2014-05-10 |
| A Woman from Ashio | 2014-01-18 |
| Sleeping Forest as Daisuke Ota | 2014-01-02 |
| Fly, Dakota, Fly! | 2013-10-05 |
| Present for You | 2013-10-04 |
| Unforgiven as Kingo Baba | 2013-09-13 |
| The War and a Woman as client of woman | 2013-04-27 |
| Yellow Elephant as Arechi | 2013-02-02 |
| Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark | 2013-01-01 |
| Humanoid Monster, Bem as Kao no nai otoko | 2012-12-15 |
| One Day in January | 2012-11-17 |
| The Life of Budori Gusuko as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice) | 2012-07-07 |
| Casting Blossoms to the Sky as Seijiro Nose | 2012-05-12 |
| A Sower of Seeds as Shuzo Morikawa | 2012-03-03 |
| Ace Attorney as Saibancho (Judge) | 2012-02-11 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Yoneuchi | 2011-12-23 |
| Life Back Then as Masashi Inoue | 2011-11-19 |
| Karate-Robo Zaborgar as Dr. Akunomiya | 2011-10-15 |
| Shikei Kijun as Kyusaku Tsushima | 2011-09-25 |
| In His Chart as Doctor | 2011-08-27 |
| Ninja Kids!!! | 2011-07-23 |
| A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip as wet guy | 2011-05-14 |
| Postcard as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law | 2010-10-27 |
| Cast Me If You Can as Homeless guy | 2010-10-23 |
| The Lightning Tree as Kakunoshi Enokido | 2010-10-22 |
| Sakurada Gate Incident as Magojiro Kaneko | 2010-10-16 |
| Elevator to the Gallows | 2010-10-09 |
| Heaven's Story as Souichi | 2010-10-02 |
| Villain as Yoshio Ishibashi | 2010-09-11 |
| Hutch the Honeybee | 2010-07-28 |
| A Crowd of Three | 2010-06-12 |
| A Lone Scalpel as Matsuo Okawa | 2010-06-05 |
| Haru's Journey as Michio Nakai | 2010-05-22 |
| After the Flowers as Soan Nagai | 2010-03-13 |
| Golden Slumber as Hodogaya Yasushi | 2010-01-30 |
| Yona Yona Penguin as Jii (voice) | 2009-12-23 |
| Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha as Shotaro | 2009-08-22 |
| April Bride as Teishi Nagashima | 2009-05-09 |
| Rain Fall as Tatsu Ishikura | 2009-04-24 |
| John Rabe as Matsui Iwane | 2009-04-02 |
| Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky as Itsuro Usui | 2009-02-07 |
| Happy Flight as Saito | 2008-11-15 |
| ICHI | 2008-10-25 |
| Teacher and Three Children as Yoshio Ichikawa | 2008-09-27 |
| Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as Counselor | 2008-09-26 |
| The Cycling Genius Is Coming! | 2008-09-06 |
| The Taste of Fish as Shojiro Sanada | 2008-06-07 |
| All Around Us as kunimasa Yasuda | 2008-06-07 |
| The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Journalist | 2008-05-24 |
| The Chasing World as Doctor | 2008-02-22 |
| The Shadow Spirit as mimasaka koushirou | 2007-12-21 |
| Prodigy as Hisashi Kikuna | 2007-09-20 |
| Life Can Be So Wonderful as Haeo | 2007-09-15 |
| Three for the Road | 2007-07-11 |
| The Go Master as Kensaku Segoe | 2007-05-24 |
| Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic | 2007-04-14 |
| Starfish Hotel as Mr. Trickster | 2007-02-03 |
| The Happiness | 2006-11-23 |
| The Summer of Stickleback | 2006-10-14 |
| Japan Sinks | 2006-07-15 |
| It's Only Talk | 2006-06-10 |
| Memories of Matsuko as Tsunehiro Kawajiri | 2006-05-27 |
| Scrap Heaven as Detective Yabuta | 2005-10-08 |
| The Suspect: Muroi Shinji as Seigo Tsuda | 2005-08-27 |
| The Great Yokai War | 2005-08-06 |
| For the coming day | 2005-05-06 |
| Love Is Five Seven Five as Grandfather | 2005-03-26 |
| Tetsujin 28: The Movie as Yunosuke Otsuka | 2005-03-19 |
| Moon and Cherry as Sakamoto | 2004-12-25 |
| The Motive as Yoshifumi Katakura | 2004-12-18 |
| River of First Love as Hidejiro Tasaki | 2004-11-13 |
| Drugstore Girl as Koji Nabeshima | 2004-02-07 |
| Zebraman | 2004-01-30 |
| Winning Pass | 2004-01-24 |
| The Lakeside Murder Case as Tomoharu Fujima | 2004-01-22 |
| The Hunter and the Hunted as Neko | 2004-01-17 |
| Hana as Hiroshi Torigoe | 2003-11-01 |
| Doppelganger as Murakami | 2003-09-27 |
| Worst by Chance as Shigeharu Kaneshiro | 2003-09-13 |
| Zatoichi as Pub Owner | 2003-09-06 |
| Farewell, Kuro as Shuzo Hanazono | 2003-07-01 |
| Teacher's suitcase as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna | 2003-03-11 |
| Owl | 2003-02-07 |
| Barber's Sorrow | 2002-11-09 |
| 11’09”01—September 11 as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan") | 2002-09-04 |
| KT as Hiroshi Uchiyama | 2002-05-03 |
| Turn as Matsubara | 2001-10-13 |
| Waterboys as Mama | 2001-09-15 |
| The City of Lost Souls as Kuwata | 2000-09-15 |
| Kaza-hana as Hot Spring Inn Owner | 2000-09-14 |
| The Whispered City as Artist | 2000-07-07 |
| Nagisa | 2000-06-10 |
| Another Heaven as Doctor Akagi | 2000-04-29 |
| Kaizokuban Bootleg Film as Tatsuo | 1999-12-01 |
| The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe as Matashichi | 1999-11-07 |
| Round About Midnight as Totsuka | 1999-11-06 |
| Will to Live as Doctor | 1999-01-15 |
| Legend of the Cat Monster as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura | 1998-08-16 |
| Love Letter | 1998-05-23 |
| Dr. Akagi as Dr. Fuu Akagi | 1998-05-17 |
| The Key as Soichiro Anzai | 1997-10-18 |
| Body and Soul | 1997-10-18 |
| Abduction | 1997-06-07 |
| The Eel as Tamotsu Takasaki | 1997-05-12 |
| The Rainbow Seeker | 1996-12-28 |
| Free and Easy 8 as Yukawa | 1996-08-10 |
| Shall We Dance? as Detective Miwa | 1996-01-27 |
| Maborosi as Yoshihiro | 1995-10-01 |
| Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla as Major Akira Yuki | 1994-12-10 |
| The Friends as Nagatomo | 1994-04-09 |
| I Can Hear the Duck Singing | 1993-09-11 |
| When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang as (voice) | 1993-09-01 |
| Private Lessons II as Oba | 1993-03-06 |
| Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 | 1992-12-19 |
| Manhattan Kiss | 1992-06-13 |
| Sumo Do, Sumo Don't as Professor Tokichi Anayama | 1992-01-15 |
| A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era as Kogoro Katsura | 1991-07-06 |
| Dance till Tomorrow | 1991-06-22 |
| Goodbye Mama | 1991-04-20 |
| The Last Frankenstein as Prof. Sarusawa | 1991-04-20 |
| Betrayal tomorrow | 1990-09-14 |
| Maria's Stomach | 1990-07-21 |
| Roar of the Crowd | 1990-06-09 |
| Universal Laws | 1990-01-27 |
| Fancy Dance as Masoho's boss | 1989-12-23 |
| Beijing Watermelon as Mr. Teramoto | 1989-11-18 |
| Battle Heater as Riichi Hama | 1989-11-03 |
| Tora-san Goes to Vienna as Hyoma Sakaguchi | 1989-08-05 |
| Harimao as Army Major | 1989-06-03 |
| Mottomo Abunai Deka as Maeo | 1989-04-22 |
| Revolver as Keisuke Mineya | 1988-10-22 |
| The Silk Road | 1988-06-25 |
| The Yen Family as Shinichi Amemiya | 1988-05-14 |
| Angel Guts: Red Vertigo as Yakuza | 1988-05-07 |
| The Great Department Store Robbery | 1987-12-26 |
| Bedtime Eyes | 1987-04-25 |
| A Tale of Young Elopement as Matsuda | 1987-02-07 |
| The Heartbreak Yakuza | 1987-01-01 |
| Congratulatory Speech as Yasuhei Higashida | 1985-12-28 |
| The Second Is a Christian as Kumashiro | 1985-09-14 |
| I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident as Hirofumi Maruyama | 1985-03-02 |
| Capone Cries a Lot as Ushiemon | 1985-02-16 |
| Location as Konno | 1984-09-22 |
| Make-Up as Kikuo Tsutano | 1984-05-02 |
| Double Bed as Tôru Yamazaki | 1983-08-05 |
| The Man from Shimizu | 1982-12-28 |
| Suspicion as Shigekazu Akitani | 1982-09-11 |
| Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as Kondo | 1982-08-07 |
| Lovers Lost as Ishizuka | 1982-06-12 |
| Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Detective Kuroki | 1981-12-19 |
| Disciples of Hippocrates | 1980-11-21 |
| Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman as Kantarô Iwata | 1979-10-06 |
| Shimoochiai Yakitori Movie | 1979-06-23 |
| Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again as Daigorô Hatayama | 1979-03-31 |
