credits of
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 8th, 2026 | Kyoto Hippocrates | TBD | TBD | |
January 9th, 2026 | The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat | TBD | TBD | |
November 28th, 2025 | One Last Throw | Kawato Kozo | 7 | |
November 20th, 2025 | Rental Family | Kikuo Hasegawa | 7.7 | |
October 31st, 2025 | The Final Piece | Motoji Kanesaki | 9.4 | |
June 21st, 2025 | The Way of The Prison Guard | TBD | 8 | |
March 20th, 2025 | The Boy and the Dog | Yaichi Katano | 7.1 | |
January 17th, 2025 | Samurai Fury | TBD | 8 | |
November 8th, 2024 | The God of Curling | Susumu Komiyama | TBD | |
October 18th, 2024 | Maru | Teacher | 6 | |
April 29th, 2024 | Rotting | TBD | TBD | |
February 9th, 2024 | Don't Lose Your Head! | Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu | 6.5 | |
November 10th, 2023 | The Innocent Game | TBD | 5.3 | |
September 1st, 2023 | September 1923 | Teiji Igusa | 6.5 | |
July 15th, 2023 | Goal of the Sky | TBD | TBD | |
May 26th, 2023 | Ripples | Taro Kadokura | 6.4 | |
May 19th, 2023 | Hard Days | Yutaka Senba | 6.6 | |
March 31st, 2023 | Touken Ranbu 2 | Fujiwara no Michinaga | 5 | |
March 24th, 2023 | Do Unto Others | Shosaku Shiba | 7.6 | |
February 23rd, 2023 | Yudo: The Way of the Bath | regular customer | 7.1 | |
February 17th, 2023 | Shylock's Children | Hajime Sawazaki | 7.6 | |
February 10th, 2023 | Egoist | Yoshio Saito | 7.1 | |
February 9th, 2023 | Umami | Salaryman | 5.7 | |
November 18th, 2022 | A Man | Norio Komiura | 7.1 | |
November 4th, 2022 | The Setting Sun | Dr. Miyake | 6 | |
October 8th, 2022 | No Place to Go | Bomber | 6 | |
May 13th, 2022 | Wandering | Agata | 6.5 | |
May 9th, 2022 | Barber Shop with a View of the Sea | 老店主 | TBD | |
January 27th, 2022 | Noise | Shoji | 5.9 | |
November 17th, 2021 | Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun | TBD | TBD | |
October 15th, 2021 | Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai | Shop Owner | 6.7 | |
August 20th, 2021 | 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻― | TBD | TBD | |
July 1st, 2021 | The Great Yokai War: Guardians | old man | 6.2 | |
July 1st, 2021 | The Great Yokai War: Guardians | Old Man | 6.2 | |
February 5th, 2021 | Utsusemi no mori | Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi | TBD | |
January 29th, 2021 | The Master Plan | Kawabata | 7.8 | |
November 27th, 2020 | Underdog: Part One | Sakuro | 7.2 | |
November 27th, 2020 | Underdog: Part Two | Sakuro | 7 | |
November 20th, 2020 | Wonderful Paradise | Homeless | 6.7 | |
October 23rd, 2020 | Living in the Sky | Concierge Kondo | 7.7 | |
July 11th, 2020 | Nosari: Impermanent Eternity | TBD | 2.5 | |
July 3rd, 2020 | I Never Shot Anyone | Takashi Renjo | 7 | |
March 6th, 2020 | Stardust over the Town | Kumabe Rokuzo | 6 | |
October 25th, 2019 | Finding Light at the Darkness Festival | TBD | TBD | |
October 18th, 2019 | The Promised Land | Goro Fujiki | 6 | |
October 18th, 2019 | Show Me the Way to the Station | TBD | 6.5 | |
September 13th, 2019 | They Say Nothing Stays the Same | Toichi | 6.8 | |
August 23rd, 2019 | It Feels So Good | Kenji's Father (voice) | 6.7 | |
May 17th, 2019 | Iwane: Sword of Serenity | Urakusai | 7.8 | |
April 20th, 2019 | Godot of the Emotos | TBD | TBD | |
March 28th, 2019 | Castle of Sand | Chiyokichi | 8.7 | |
February 15th, 2019 | BON-UTA, A Song from Home | (voice) | 7.2 | |
October 26th, 2018 | Oz Land | Boss | 7.4 | |
June 15th, 2018 | Recall | Seiji Nomura | 6.8 | |
June 2nd, 2018 | Shoplifters | Yoritsugu Kawado | 7.8 | |
February 10th, 2018 | Color Me True | Tadashi Honda | 7.4 | |
January 13th, 2018 | Evil and The Mask | Detective Aida | 7.2 | |
December 31st, 2017 | Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~ | TBD | 10 | |
June 3rd, 2017 | Mukoku | Seppo Mitsumura | 6.8 | |
May 20th, 2017 | Neko Ninja | Kariyazaki | 4.5 | |
May 19th, 2017 | Lu Over the Wall | Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice) | 7 | |
May 13th, 2017 | The Dog Bridegroom | Kenkichi Okumura | TBD | |
February 11th, 2017 | Survival Family | Sasaki Shigeomi | 7.3 | |
January 28th, 2017 | Random Lives | Hanamura | TBD | |
November 26th, 2016 | Shippu Rondo | Masaomi Togo | 6.2 | |
October 2nd, 2016 | Sniper | Tatsuyuki Miyata | TBD | |
August 27th, 2016 | Black Widow Business | Jun Sakurada | 8.5 | |
August 26th, 2016 | A Grain of Wheat | Honda | TBD | |
July 29th, 2016 | Shin Godzilla | Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary | 7.2 | |
April 9th, 2016 | The Mohican Comes Home | Osamu Tamura | 5.9 | |
January 9th, 2016 | A Living Promise | Zenzo Takeda | TBD | |
September 30th, 2015 | Journey to the Shore | Hoshitani | 6.5 | |
September 12th, 2015 | The Big Bee | Murofushi | 5.7 | |
June 20th, 2015 | The Pearls of the Stone Man | Kumaji Ueda | 8.3 | |
April 17th, 2015 | Vampire in Love | Sojiro | 6.9 | |
March 28th, 2015 | GARO -Gold Storm- Sho | Priest Soutatsu | 7.4 | |
March 7th, 2015 | Living Rights | TBD | TBD | |
February 7th, 2015 | Present for You | TBD | TBD | |
December 6th, 2014 | A House on a Hill | Yoshitarō Terashima | TBD | |
November 8th, 2014 | 0.5 mm | Takeshi Sasaki | 7.4 | |
September 27th, 2014 | Cold | Jin Ichinose | TBD | |
July 26th, 2014 | Time Trip App | Ryuzo Yanagita | 6 | |
May 24th, 2014 | Oh! Father | Hayashi Tomita | 5.5 | |
May 10th, 2014 | Wood Job! | Toshiro Yamane | 7.4 | |
January 2nd, 2014 | Sleeping Forest | Daisuke Ota | 7.2 | |
October 5th, 2013 | Fly, Dakota, Fly! | TBD | TBD | |
September 29th, 2013 | The Partner | Ōkuma Shigenobu | TBD | |
September 13th, 2013 | Unforgiven | Kingo Baba | 7 | |
September 1st, 2013 | Ask This of Rikyu | TBD | 7.3 | |
April 27th, 2013 | The War and a Woman | client of woman | 4.2 | |
February 2nd, 2013 | Yellow Elephant | Arechi | 6 | |
January 1st, 2013 | Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark | Lawyer | TBD | |
December 15th, 2012 | Humanoid Monster, Bem | Kao no nai otoko | 6.2 | |
November 17th, 2012 | One Day in January | TBD | 8 | |
July 7th, 2012 | The Life of Budori Gusuko | Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice) | 6.5 | |
May 12th, 2012 | Casting Blossoms to the Sky | Seijiro Nose | 6.9 | |
March 3rd, 2012 | A Sower of Seeds | Shuzo Morikawa | TBD | |
February 11th, 2012 | Ace Attorney | Saibancho (Judge) | 6.1 | |
December 23rd, 2011 | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Yoneuchi | 6.5 | |
November 19th, 2011 | Life Back Then | Masashi Inoue | 4.4 | |
October 15th, 2011 | Karate-Robo Zaborgar | Dr. Akunomiya | 5.9 | |
September 25th, 2011 | Shikei Kijun | Kyusaku Tsushima | TBD | |
August 27th, 2011 | In His Chart | Doctor | 4.9 | |
July 23rd, 2011 | Ninja Kids!!! | TBD | 5.9 | |
May 14th, 2011 | A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip | wet guy | 8.5 | |
October 27th, 2010 | Postcard | Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law | 5.8 | |
October 23rd, 2010 | Cast Me If You Can | Homeless guy | 7.5 | |
October 22nd, 2010 | The Lightning Tree | Kakunoshi Enokido | 7 | |
October 16th, 2010 | Sakurada Gate Incident | Magojiro Kaneko | 7.4 | |
October 9th, 2010 | Ekeb of Dekye | Soichi Yanagimachi | 6.6 | |
October 2nd, 2010 | Heaven's Story | Souichi | 6.6 | |
September 11th, 2010 | Villain | Yoshio Ishibashi | 6.8 | |
July 28th, 2010 | Hutch the Honeybee | TBD | 5 | |
June 12th, 2010 | A Crowd of Three | TBD | 4.9 | |
June 5th, 2010 | A Lone Scalpel | Matsuo Okawa | 6.5 | |
May 22nd, 2010 | Haru's Journey | Michio Nakai | 6.5 | |
March 13th, 2010 | After the Flowers | Soan Nagai | 7.3 | |
January 30th, 2010 | Golden Slumber | Hodogaya Yasushi | 7.1 | |
December 23rd, 2009 | Yona Yona Penguin | Jii (voice) | 5.3 | |
August 22nd, 2009 | Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha | Shotaro | TBD | |
May 9th, 2009 | April Bride | Teishi Nagashima | 6.8 | |
April 24th, 2009 | Rain Fall | Tatsu Ishikura | 4.7 | |
April 2nd, 2009 | John Rabe | Matsui Iwane | 7.1 | |
February 7th, 2009 | Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky | Itsuro Usui | 8.8 | |
November 15th, 2008 | Happy Flight | Saito | 6.4 | |
October 25th, 2008 | ICHI | TBD | 6.7 | |
September 27th, 2008 | Teacher and Three Children | Yoshio Ichikawa | 6 | |
September 26th, 2008 | Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit | Counselor | 6.6 | |
September 6th, 2008 | The Cycling Genius Is Coming! | TBD | TBD | |
July 26th, 2008 | Your Friend | TBD | 5.1 | |
June 7th, 2008 | The Taste of Fish | Shojiro Sanada | 7 | |
June 7th, 2008 | All Around Us | kunimasa Yasuda | 7.4 | |
May 24th, 2008 | The Most Beautiful Night In The World | Journalist | 5.6 | |
February 22nd, 2008 | The Chasing World | Doctor | 5.7 | |
December 21st, 2007 | The Shadow Spirit | mimasaka koushirou | 5.3 | |
September 20th, 2007 | Prodigy | Hisashi Kikuna | 7.1 | |
September 15th, 2007 | Life Can Be So Wonderful | Haeo | 7 | |
July 11th, 2007 | Three for the Road | TBD | 3 | |
May 24th, 2007 | The Go Master | Kensaku Segoe | 6.5 | |
April 14th, 2007 | Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad | Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic | 6.9 | |
February 3rd, 2007 | Starfish Hotel | Mr. Trickster | 6.2 | |
November 23rd, 2006 | The Happiness | TBD | TBD | |
October 14th, 2006 | The Summer of Stickleback | TBD | TBD | |
July 15th, 2006 | Japan Sinks | Professor Fukuhara | 5.7 | |
June 10th, 2006 | It's Only Talk | TBD | 6.3 | |
May 27th, 2006 | Memories of Matsuko | Tsunehiro Kawajiri | 7.8 | |
October 8th, 2005 | Scrap Heaven | Detective Yabuta | 7.6 | |
August 27th, 2005 | The Suspect: Muroi Shinji | Seigo Tsuda | 6.4 | |
August 6th, 2005 | The Great Yokai War | TBD | 6.3 | |
May 6th, 2005 | For the coming day | TBD | TBD | |
March 26th, 2005 | Love Is Five Seven Five | Grandfather | 7.5 | |
March 19th, 2005 | Tetsujin 28: The Movie | Yunosuke Otsuka | 6.3 | |
January 22nd, 2005 | The Lakeside Murder Case | Tomoharu Fujima | 6.5 | |
December 25th, 2004 | Moon & Cherry | Sakamoto | 6.1 | |
December 18th, 2004 | The Motive | Yoshifumi Katakura | 6.9 | |
November 13th, 2004 | River of First Love | Hidejiro Tasaki | 6.8 | |
November 13th, 2004 | Chicken Is Barefoot | TBD | 7.2 | |
April 3rd, 2004 | Takada Wataru Teki | Self | TBD | |
February 7th, 2004 | Drugstore Girl | Koji Nabeshima | 5.2 | |
January 30th, 2004 | Zebraman | Kitahara the Crab Man | 6.3 | |
January 24th, 2004 | Winning Pass | TBD | TBD | |
January 17th, 2004 | The Hunter and the Hunted | Neko | 10 | |
November 1st, 2003 | Hana | Hiroshi Torigoe | TBD | |
September 27th, 2003 | Doppelgänger | Murakami | 7 | |
September 13th, 2003 | Worst by Chance | Shigeharu Kaneshiro | 9 | |
September 6th, 2003 | Zatoichi | Pub Owner | 7.2 | |
July 1st, 2003 | Farewell, Kuro | Shuzo Hanazono | 7.2 | |
April 26th, 2003 | Samurai Resurrection | Nobutsuna Matsudaira | 4.9 | |
March 11th, 2003 | Teacher's suitcase | Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna | 7 | |
February 7th, 2003 | Owl | TBD | 6.4 | |
November 9th, 2002 | Barber's Sorrow | TBD | 8 | |
September 4th, 2002 | September 11 | Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan") | 6.4 | |
May 3rd, 2002 | KT | Hiroshi Uchiyama | 6.7 | |
October 13th, 2001 | Turn | Matsubara | 6.8 | |
September 15th, 2001 | Waterboys | Mama | 6.6 | |
January 27th, 2001 | Kaza-hana | Hot Spring Inn Owner | 5.6 | |
September 15th, 2000 | The City of Lost Souls | Kuwata | 6.2 | |
July 7th, 2000 | The Whispered City | Toyohashi, sculptor | 9 | |
June 10th, 2000 | Nagisa | Priest Shinto | 7.2 | |
April 29th, 2000 | Another Heaven | Doctor Akagi | 6 | |
April 29th, 2000 | As the River Flows | TBD | 9 | |
December 1st, 1999 | Kaizokuban Bootleg Film | Tatsuo | 6.1 | |
November 7th, 1999 | The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe | Matashichi | 9 | |
November 6th, 1999 | Round About Midnight | Totsuka | 7 | |
January 15th, 1999 | Will to Live | Doctor | 6.4 | |
May 23rd, 1998 | Love Letter | TBD | 8 | |
May 17th, 1998 | Dr. Akagi | Dr. Fuu Akagi | 6.4 | |
October 18th, 1997 | Body and Soul | TBD | 3 | |
October 18th, 1997 | The Key | Soichiro Anzai | 5 | |
June 7th, 1997 | Abduction | Chief Superintendent Tachibana | 8.5 | |
May 12th, 1997 | The Eel | Tamotsu Takasaki | 6.9 | |
December 28th, 1996 | The Rainbow Seeker | TBD | 7 | |
August 10th, 1996 | Free and Easy 8 | Yukawa | 7.3 | |
January 27th, 1996 | Shall We Dance? | Detective Miwa | 7.5 | |
October 1st, 1995 | Maborosi | Yoshihiro | 7.4 | |
December 10th, 1994 | Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla | Major Akira Yuki | 6.8 | |
March 12th, 1994 | The Friends | Nagatomo | 7.2 | |
September 11th, 1993 | I Can Hear the Duck Singing | TBD | 9 | |
September 1st, 1993 | When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang | Narrator (voice) | 6.7 | |
March 6th, 1993 | Private Lessons II | Oba | 3.5 | |
December 19th, 1992 | Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 | TBD | 6 | |
June 13th, 1992 | Manhattan Kiss | TBD | TBD | |
January 15th, 1992 | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't | Professor Tokichi Anayama | 6.8 | |
July 6th, 1991 | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Kogoro Katsura | 7.5 | |
June 22nd, 1991 | Dance till Tomorrow | TBD | 10 | |
April 20th, 1991 | The Last Frankenstein | Prof. Sarusawa | 5.8 | |
April 20th, 1991 | Goodbye Mama | TBD | 9 | |
September 14th, 1990 | Betrayal Tomorrow | TBD | TBD | |
July 21st, 1990 | Maria's Stomach | TBD | 10 | |
June 9th, 1990 | Roar of the Crowd | TBD | 10 | |
January 27th, 1990 | Universal Laws | TBD | 9 | |
December 23rd, 1989 | Fancy Dance | Masoho's boss | 6.9 | |
November 18th, 1989 | Beijing Watermelon | Mr. Teramoto | 6.6 | |
November 3rd, 1989 | Battle Heater | Riichi Hama | 7.5 | |
August 5th, 1989 | Tora-san Goes to Vienna | Hyoma Sakaguchi | 8.7 | |
June 3rd, 1989 | Harimao | Army Major | 8 | |
April 22nd, 1989 | Mottomo Abunai Deka | Maeo | 8.5 | |
October 22nd, 1988 | Revolver | Keisuke Mineya | 7.3 | |
June 25th, 1988 | The Silk Road | TBD | 6.5 | |
May 14th, 1988 | The Yen Family | Shinichi Amemiya | 6.2 | |
May 7th, 1988 | Angel Guts: Red Vertigo | Yakuza | 6.1 | |
December 26th, 1987 | The Great Department Store Robbery | TBD | 9 | |
September 12th, 1987 | The Heartbreak Yakuza | TBD | 5 | |
April 25th, 1987 | Bedtime Eyes | TBD | 4.7 | |
February 7th, 1987 | A Tale of Young Elopement | Matsuda | 9 | |
August 2nd, 1986 | Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies | TBD | 6.6 | |
December 28th, 1985 | Congratulatory Speech | Yasuhei Higashida | 7 | |
September 14th, 1985 | The Second Is a Christian | Kumashiro | 6 | |
March 2nd, 1985 | I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident | Hirofumi Maruyama | 3.7 | |
February 16th, 1985 | Capone Cries a Lot | Ushiemon | 6 | |
September 22nd, 1984 | Location | Konno | 8.5 | |
May 2nd, 1984 | Make-Up | Kikuo Tsutano | 10 | |
August 30th, 1983 | Legend of the Cat Monster | Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura | 5 | |
August 5th, 1983 | Double Bed | Tôru Yamazaki | 5.1 | |
February 19th, 1983 | Amagi Pass | TBD | 6.4 | |
December 28th, 1982 | The Man from Shimizu | TBD | TBD | |
September 11th, 1982 | Suspicion | Shigekazu Akitani | 7 | |
August 7th, 1982 | Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san | Kondo | 8 | |
June 12th, 1982 | Lovers Lost | Ishizuka | 6.4 | |
December 19th, 1981 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun | Detective Kuroki | 7.1 | |
November 21st, 1980 | Disciples of Hippocrates | TBD | 6.8 | |
October 6th, 1979 | Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman | Kantarô Iwata | 8 | |
June 23rd, 1979 | Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie | TBD | TBD | |
March 31st, 1979 | Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again | Daigorô Hatayama | 6.1 |