Akira Emoto
Akira Emoto is an actor, born 1948. Their work on CrossBinge spans TV and films, including AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo, with ratings and cross-media recommendations.
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…
Films (154)
- Zatoichi (2003)
- Rental Family (2025)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)
- It Feels So Good (2019)
- Shoplifters (2018)
- Worst by Chance (2003)
- Memories of Matsuko (2006)
- Samurai Fury (2025)
- The Eel (1997)
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
- Lu Over the Wall (2017)
- Survival Family (2017)
- Shall We Dance? (1996)
- Bedtime Eyes (1987)
- Wood Job! (2014)
- The Great Yokai War (2005)
- Maborosi (1995)
- John Rabe (2009)
- Owl (2003)
- Happy Flight (2008)
- Zebraman (2004)
- Villain (2010)
- Amagi Pass (1983)
- Yudo: The Way of the Bath (2023)
- Waterboys (2001)
- Capone Cries a Lot (1985)
- Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
- A Man (2022)
- Sleeping Forest (2014)
- Hard Days (2023)
TV (37)
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
- Hanzawa Naoki (2013)
- Absolute Zero (2010)
- Clouds Over the Hill (2009)
- Ten Count to the Future (2022)
- Lost Man Found (2022)
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2016)
- Olympic Ransom (2013)
- Good Doctor (2018)
- Water Boys (2003)
- 竜馬がゆく (2004)
- Ties of Shooting Stars (2008)
- Get Ready! (2023)
- The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors (2022)
- Love That Makes You Cry (2016)
- Love and Glory (2006)
- Genroku Ryoran (1999)
- Black Kite (2013)
- Shinjuku Field Hospital (2024)
- A Life (2017)
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk (2015)
- Folktales from Japan (2012)
- The Long Goodbye (2014)
- 水曜ドラマスペシャル (1984)
- In Hand (2019)
- Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (2021)
- JK to Roppozensho (2024)
- HUNTER - Women After Reward Money (2011)
- Haru and Natsu (2005)
- Humanoid Monster Bem (2011)