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.
Movies starring Akira Emoto (234)
Kikuo Hasegawa
Yaichi Katano
Teacher
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
Yutaka Senba
Shosaku Shiba
Regular Customer
Hajime Sawazaki
Yoshio Saito
Dr. Miyake
Shop Owner
Kawabata
Homeless
Takashi Renjo
Kumabe Rokuzo
Kenji's Father (Voice)
Boss
Seiji Nomura
Detective Aida
Seppo Mitsumura
Kenkichi Okumura
Masaomi Togo
Tatsuyuki Miyata
Jun Sakurada
Osamu Tamura
Zenzo Takeda
Murofushi
Kumaji Ueda
Sojiro
Takeshi Sasaki
Jin Ichinose
Ryuzo Yanagita
Hayashi Tomita
Daisuke Ota
Shuzo Morikawa
Soan Nagai
Jii (Voice)
Teishi Nagashima
Saito
Counselor
Koji Nabeshima
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Hiroshi Uchiyama
Matsubara
Priest Shinto
Doctor
Sekiya/Reiko's Lover-Aya's Ex
Soichiro Anzai
Chief Superintendent Tachibana
Yukawa
Kogoro Katsura
Masoho's Boss
Mr. Teramoto
Hyoma Sakaguchi
Army Major
Keisuke Mineya
Hirofumi Maruyama
Ushiemon
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Shigekazu Akitani
Daigorô Hatayama
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