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.

Cast

The Great Department Store Robbery

Tamotsu Takasaki

A Crowd of Three

The Life of Budori Gusuko

Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

The Great Yokai War

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

The City of Lost Souls

Yoshio Ishibashi

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

Sakurada Gate Incident

Magojiro Kaneko

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

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

Worst by Chance

Shigeharu Kaneshiro

Betrayal Tomorrow

One Day in January

Hodogaya Yasushi

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Major Akira Yuki

The Chasing World

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Professor Tokichi Anayama

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

Hirofumi Maruyama

Teishi Nagashima

Saibancho (Judge)

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

Goal of the Sky

For the coming day

The Setting Sun

Yoshifumi Katakura

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

Cast Me If You Can

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

The Lightning Tree

Kakunoshi Enokido

A Woman from Ashio

Yellow Elephant

祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

Fujiwara no Michinaga

Barber Shop with a View of the Sea

The War and a Woman

client of woman

The Innocent Game

Private Lessons II

The Taste of Fish

The Shadow Spirit

mimasaka koushirou

Hiroshi Uchiyama

The Most Beautiful Night In The World

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

Daigorô Hatayama

Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law

The Lakeside Murder Case

Tomoharu Fujima

Barber's Sorrow

Shylock's Children

Hajime Sawazaki

The Last Frankenstein

The Whispered City

kunimasa Yasuda

Present for You

Memories of Matsuko

Tsunehiro Kawajiri

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

regular customer

River of First Love

Hidejiro Tasaki

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic

After the Flowers

Beijing Watermelon

Life Can Be So Wonderful

The Rainbow Seeker

Moon and Cherry

Professor Fukuhara

The Cycling Genius Is Coming!

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

Humanoid Monster, Bem

Kao no nai otoko

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

I Can Hear the Duck Singing

Roar of the Crowd

Detective Yabuta

Journey to the Shore

Vampire in Love

A House on a Hill

Yoshitarō Terashima

Sleeping Forest

The Man from Shimizu

Round About Midnight

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho

Priest Soutatsu

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

Capone Cries a Lot

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Detective Kuroki

The Mohican Comes Home

The Summer of Stickleback

Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

Maria's Stomach

The Second Is a Christian

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

Narrator (voice)

Don't Lose Your Head!

Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu

Black Widow Business

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Hyoma Sakaguchi

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Hiroshi Torigoe

Shinichi Amemiya

The Pearls of the Stone Man

Soichi Yanagimachi

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

Dance till Tomorrow

Hot Spring Inn Owner

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

Lu Over the Wall

Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

Seppo Mitsumura

A Living Promise

Shigekazu Akitani

Teacher and Three Children

Yoshio Ichikawa

The Hunter and the Hunted

A Grain of Wheat

Mottomo Abunai Deka

Free and Easy 8

Evil and The Mask

Kyusaku Tsushima

Yoritsugu Kawado

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Hutch the Honeybee

Love Is Five Seven Five

Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Iwane: Sword of Serenity

A Tale of Young Elopement

Tatsuyuki Miyata

Survival Family

Sasaki Shigeomi

Yona Yona Penguin

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

A Sower of Seeds

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

The Promised Land

Three for the Road

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Show Me the Way to the Station

Disciples of Hippocrates

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

Shall We Dance?

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity

Congratulatory Speech

Yasuhei Higashida

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Legend of the Cat Monster

Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura

Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha

Living in the Sky

Concierge Kondo

Godot of the Emotos

Underdog: Part One

Stardust Over The Town

Kitahara the Crab Man

Teacher's suitcase

Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

old man, Old Man

Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~

It Feels So Good

Kenji's Father (voice)

The Dog Bridegroom

Kenkichi Okumura

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

Yunosuke Otsuka

The End of the Tiny World

I Never Shot Anyone

Wonderful Paradise

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

The Boy and the Dog

Police Inspector kariya shinichi

Samurai Resurrection

Nobutsuna Matsudaira

Takada Wataru Teki

Finding Light at the Darkness Festival

Underdog: Part Two

The Way of The Prison Guard

The God of Curling

Susumu Komiyama

Kyoto Hippocrates

The Final Piece

Motoji Kanesaki

Ōkuma Shigenobu

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

Crew

Sky Cannot Be This Blue