Akira Emoto

Acting · Born 1948-11-03 in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan

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 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.

Filmography

• Zatoichi as Pub Owner
• Rental Family as Kikuo Hasegawa
• Shin Godzilla as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
• Shoplifters as Yoritsugu Kawado
• Umami as Salaryman
• Hard Days as Yutaka Senba
• The Eel as Tamotsu Takasaki
• A Crowd of Three
• Noise as Shoji
• The Life of Budori Gusuko as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

TV

• Genroku Ryoran as Genshiro
• Banjo no Himawari
• Water Boys as Mama (of a bar)
• Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later as Kawabata
• Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
• Love and Glory as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
• Segodon as Ryu Samin
• The Private Detective Mike
• The Long Goodbye as Heizo Harada