Personal Info
Known Credits
230
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1948-11-03 (77 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Also Known For
에모토 아키라Акира Эмото柄本 明آکیرا اموتوAkira Emoto
Akira Emoto
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, ...
Acting
2025 --
The Boy and the Dog
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2025 --
Muromachi Burai
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2024 --
Maru
| Teacher
2024 --
Migawari Mission
| Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
2023 --
The Innocent Game
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2023 --
September 1923
| Teiji Igusa
2023 --
Goal of the Sky
|
2023 --
Ripples
| Taro Kadokura
2023 --
Hard Days
| Yutaka Senba
2023 --
Touken Ranbu 2
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2023 --
Do Unto Others
| Shosaku Shiba
2023 --
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
| regular customer
2023 --
Shylock's Children
| Hajime Sawazaki
2023 --
Egoist
| Yoshio Saito
2023 --
Umami
| Salaryman
2022 --
A Man
| Norio Komiura
2022 --
The Setting Sun
| Dr. Miyake
2022 --
No Place to Go
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2022 --
Wandering
| Agata
2022 --
海の見える理髪店
| 老店主
2022 --
Noise
| Shoji
2021 --
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
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2021 --
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
| Shop Owner
2021 --
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
|
2021 --
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
| Old Man
2021 --
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
| old man
2021 --
空蝉の森
| Police Inspector kariya shinichi
2021 --
The End of the Tiny World
| Kawabata
2020 --
Underdog: Part One
| Sakuro
2020 --
Wonderful Paradise
| Homeless
2020 --
Living in the Sky
| Concierge Kondo
2020 --
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
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2020 --
I Never Shot Anyone
| Takashi Renjo
2020 --
Stardust Over The Town
| Kumabe Rokuzo
2019 --
Show Me the Way to the Station
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2019 --
The Promised Land
| Goro Fujiki
2019 --
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
| Toichi
2019 --
It Feels So Good
| Kenji's Father (voice)
2019 --
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
| Urakusai
2019 --
Godot of the Emotos
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2019 --
Castle of Sand
| Chiyokichi
2019 --
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
| (voice)
2018 --
Oz Land
| Boss
2018 --
Recall
| Seiji Nomura
2018 --
Shoplifters
| Yoritsugu Kawado
2018 --
Color Me True
| Tadashi Honda
2018 --
Evil and The Mask
| Detective Aida
2017 --
Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
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2017 --
Mukoku
| Seppo Mitsumura
2017 --
Neko Ninja
| Kariyazaki
2017 --
Lu Over the Wall
| Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
2017 --
The Dog Bridegroom
| Kenkichi Okumura
2017 --
Random Lives
| Hanamura
2016 --
Survival Family
| Sasaki Shigeomi
2016 --
Shippu Rondo
| Masaomi Togo
2016 --
Sniper
| Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016 --
Black Widow Business
| Jun Sakurada
2016 --
A Grain of Wheat
| Honda
2016 --
Shin Godzilla
| Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
2016 --
The Mohican Comes Home
| Osamu Tamura
2016 --
A Living Promise
| Zenzo Takeda
2015 --
Journey to the Shore
| Mr. Hoshitani
2015 --
The Big Bee
| Murofushi
2015 --
The Pearls of the Stone Man
| Kumaji Ueda
2015 --
Vampire in Love
| Sojiro
2015 --
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
| Priest Soutatsu
2015 --
Living Rights
|
2014 --
A House on a Hill
| Yoshitarō Terashima
2014 --
0.5 mm
| Takeshi Sasaki
2014 --
Cold
| Jin Ichinose
2014 --
Time Trip App
| Ryuzo Yanagita
2014 --
Oh! Father
| Hayashi Tomita
2014 --
Wood Job!
| Toshiro Yamane
2014 --
A Woman from Ashio
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2014 --
Sleeping Forest
| Daisuke Ota
2013 --
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
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2013 --
Present for You
|
2013 --
Unforgiven
| Kingo Baba
2013 --
The War and a Woman
| client of woman
2013 --
Yellow Elephant
| Arechi
2013 --
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
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2012 --
Humanoid Monster, Bem
| Kao no nai otoko
2012 --
One Day in January
|
2012 --
The Life of Budori Gusuko
| Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
2012 --
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
| Seijiro Nose
2012 --
A Sower of Seeds
| Shuzo Morikawa
2012 --
Ace Attorney
| Saibancho (Judge)
2011 --
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
| Yoneuchi
2011 --
Life Back Then
| Masashi Inoue
2011 --
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
| Dr. Akunomiya
2011 --
Shikei Kijun
| Kyusaku Tsushima
2011 --
In His Chart
| Doctor
2011 --
Ninja Kids!!!
|
2011 --
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
| wet guy
2010 --
Postcard
| Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
2010 --
Cast Me If You Can
| Homeless guy
2010 --
The Lightning Tree
| Kakunoshi Enokido
2010 --
Sakurada Gate Incident
| Magojiro Kaneko
2010 --
Elevator to the Gallows
|
2010 --
Heaven's Story
| Souichi
2010 --
Villain
| Yoshio Ishibashi
2010 --
Hutch the Honeybee
|
2010 --
A Crowd of Three
|
2010 --
A Lone Scalpel
| Matsuo Okawa
2010 --
Haru's Journey
| Michio Nakai
2010 --
After the Flowers
| Soan Nagai
2010 --
Golden Slumber
| Hodogaya Yasushi
2009 --
Yona Yona Penguin
| Jii (voice)
2009 --
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
| Shotaro
2009 --
April Bride
| Teishi Nagashima
2009 --
Rain Fall
| Tatsu Ishikura
2009 --
John Rabe
| Matsui Iwane
2009 --
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
| Itsuro Usui
2008 --
Happy Flight
| Saito
2008 --
ICHI
|
2008 --
Teacher and Three Children
| Yoshio Ichikawa
2008 --
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
| Counselor
2008 --
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
|
2008 --
All Around Us
| kunimasa Yasuda
2008 --
The Taste of Fish
| Shojiro Sanada
2008 --
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
| Journalist
2008 --
The Chasing World
| Doctor
2007 --
The Shadow Spirit
| mimasaka koushirou
2007 --
Prodigy
| Hisashi Kikuna
2007 --
Life Can Be So Wonderful
| Haeo
2007 --
Three for the Road
|
2007 --
The Go Master
| Kensaku Segoe
2007 --
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
| Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
2007 --
Starfish Hotel
| Mr. Trickster
2006 --
The Happiness
|
2006 --
The Summer of Stickleback
|
2006 --
Japan Sinks
|
2006 --
It's Only Talk
|
2006 --
Memories of Matsuko
| Tsunehiro Kawajiri
2005 --
Scrap Heaven
| Detective Yabuta
2005 --
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
| Seigo Tsuda
2005 --
The Great Yokai War
|
2005 --
For the coming day
|
2005 --
Love Is Five Seven Five
| Grandfather
2005 --
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
| Yunosuke Otsuka
2004 --
Moon and Cherry
| Sakamoto
2004 --
The Motive
| Yoshifumi Katakura
2004 --
River of First Love
| Hidejiro Tasaki
2004 --
Takada Wataru Teki
| Self
2004 --
Drugstore Girl
| Koji Nabeshima
2004 --
Zebraman
| Kitahara the Crab Man
2004 --
Winning Pass
|
2004 --
The Lakeside Murder Case
| Tomoharu Fujima
2004 --
The Hunter and the Hunted
| Neko
2003 --
Hana
| Hiroshi Torigoe
2003 --
Doppelganger
| Murakami
2003 --
Worst by Chance
| Shigeharu Kaneshiro
2003 --
Zatoichi
| Pub Owner
2003 --
Farewell, Kuro
| Shuzo Hanazono
2003 --
Samurai Resurrection
| Nobutsuna Matsudaira
2003 --
Teacher's suitcase
| Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
2003 --
Owl
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2002 --
Barber's Sorrow
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2002 --
11’09”01—September 11
| Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
2002 --
KT
| Hiroshi Uchiyama
2001 --
Turn
| Matsubara
2001 --
Waterboys
| Mama
2001 --
Kaza-hana
| Hot Spring Inn Owner
2000 --
The City of Lost Souls
| Kuwata
2000 --
The Whispered City
| Artist
2000 --
Nagisa
| Priest
2000 --
Another Heaven
| Doctor Akagi
1999 --
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
| Tatsuo
1999 --
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
| Matashichi
1999 --
Round About Midnight
| Totsuka
1999 --
Will to Live
| Doctor
1998 --
Love Letter
|
1998 --
Dr. Akagi
| Dr. Fuu Akagi
1997 --
The Key
| Soichiro Anzai
1997 --
Body and Soul
|
1997 --
Abduction
|
1997 --
The Eel
| Tamotsu Takasaki
1996 --
The Rainbow Seeker
|
1996 --
Free and Easy 8
| Yukawa
1996 --
Shall We Dance?
| Detective Miwa
1995 --
Maborosi
| Yoshihiro
1994 --
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
| Major Akira Yuki
1994 --
The Friends
| Nagatomo
1993 --
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
|
1993 --
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
| (voice)
1993 --
Private Lessons II
| Oba
1992 --
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
|
1992 --
Manhattan Kiss
|
1992 --
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
| Professor Tokichi Anayama
1991 --
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
| Kogoro Katsura
1991 --
Dance till Tomorrow
|
1991 --
Goodbye Mama
|
1991 --
The Last Frankenstein
| Prof. Sarusawa
1990 --
Betrayal tomorrow
|
1990 --
Maria's Stomach
|
1990 --
Roar of the Crowd
|
1990 --
Universal Laws
|
1989 --
Fancy Dance
| Masoho's boss
1989 --
Beijing Watermelon
| Mr. Teramoto
1989 --
Battle Heater
| Riichi Hama
1989 --
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
| Hyoma Sakaguchi
1989 --
Harimao
| Army Major
1989 --
Mottomo Abunai Deka
| Maeo
1988 --
Revolver
| Keisuke Mineya
1988 --
The Silk Road
|
1988 --
The Yen Family
| Shinichi Amemiya
1988 --
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
| Yakuza
1987 --
The Great Department Store Robbery
|
1987 --
The Heartbreak Yakuza
|
1987 --
Bedtime Eyes
|
1987 --
A Tale of Young Elopement
| Matsuda
1985 --
Congratulatory Speech
| Yasuhei Higashida
1985 --
The Second Is a Christian
| Kumashiro
1985 --
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
| Hirofumi Maruyama
1985 --
Capone Cries a Lot
| Ushiemon
1984 --
Location
| Konno
1984 --
Make-Up
| Kikuo Tsutano
1983 --
Legend of the Cat Monster
| Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
1983 --
Double Bed
| Tôru Yamazaki
1983 --
Amagi Pass
|
1982 --
The Man from Shimizu
|
1982 --
Suspicion
| Shigekazu Akitani
1982 --
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
| Kondo
1982 --
Lovers Lost
| Ishizuka
1981 --
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
| Detective Kuroki
1980 --
Disciples of Hippocrates
|
1979 --
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
| Kantarô Iwata
1979 --
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
|
1979 --
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
| Daigorô Hatayama