Akira Emoto

Akira Emoto

Birthday: 1948-11-03

Place of birth: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan

Also known as: 에모토 아키라, Акира Эмото, 柄本 明, آکیرا اموتو, Akira Emoto

imdb_id: nm0256628

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.

Played in movies:

Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~

Score: 10.0

The Whispered City

Score: 9.0

A Woman from Ashio

Score: 9.0

Castle of Sand

Score: 8.7

Samurai Fury

Score: 8.7

A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip

Score: 8.5

Black Widow Business

Score: 8.5

The Pearls of the Stone Man

Score: 8.3

The Way of The Prison Guard

Score: 8.0

Mottomo Abunai Deka

Score: 8.0

Location

Score: 8.0

Harimao

Score: 8.0

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Score: 8.0

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Score: 8.0

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Score: 8.0

Shoplifters

Score: 7.9

The End of the Tiny World

Score: 7.8

Do Unto Others

Score: 7.8

Memories of Matsuko

Score: 7.8

Living in the Sky

Score: 7.7

Iwane: Sword of Serenity

Score: 7.7

The Boy and the Dog

Score: 7.6

Shylock's Children

Score: 7.6

Egoist

Score: 7.5

Love Is Five Seven Five

Score: 7.5

Free and Easy 8

Score: 7.5

Cast Me If You Can

Score: 7.5

Maborosi

Score: 7.4

Oz Land

Score: 7.4

Color Me True

Score: 7.4

GARO -Gold Storm- Sho

Score: 7.4

All Around Us

Score: 7.4

0.5 mm

Score: 7.4

Wood Job!

Score: 7.4

The Friends

Score: 7.4

Shall We Dance?

Score: 7.3

After the Flowers

Score: 7.3

Survival Family

Score: 7.3

Sakurada Gate Incident

Score: 7.3

Shin Godzilla

Score: 7.2

Evil and The Mask

Score: 7.2

Battle Heater

Score: 7.2

Nagisa

Score: 7.2

Scrap Heaven

Score: 7.2

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

Score: 7.2

Golden Slumber

Score: 7.2

Zatoichi

Score: 7.2

Prodigy

Score: 7.1

Sleeping Forest

Score: 7.1

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Score: 7.1

John Rabe

Score: 7.1

Lovers Lost

Score: 7.1

Underdog: Part One

Score: 7.1

Vampire in Love

Score: 7.1

A Man

Score: 7.0

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Score: 7.0

I Never Shot Anyone

Score: 7.0

Teacher's suitcase

Score: 7.0

Lu Over the Wall

Score: 7.0

Doppelganger

Score: 7.0

Life Can Be So Wonderful

Score: 7.0

Owl

Score: 7.0

The Taste of Fish

Score: 7.0

Unforgiven

Score: 7.0

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Score: 6.9

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Score: 6.9

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again

Score: 6.9

The Eel

Score: 6.9

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Score: 6.8

Recall

Score: 6.8

Round About Midnight

Score: 6.8

Fancy Dance

Score: 6.8

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

Score: 6.8

Farewell, Kuro

Score: 6.8

April Bride

Score: 6.8

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Score: 6.8

ICHI

Score: 6.8

Turn

Score: 6.8

Amagi Pass

Score: 6.7

Wonderful Paradise

Score: 6.7

Suspicion

Score: 6.7

Revolver

Score: 6.7

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

Score: 6.7

River of First Love

Score: 6.7

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Score: 6.7

The Life of Budori Gusuko

Score: 6.7

Underdog: Part Two

Score: 6.7

It Feels So Good

Score: 6.6

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Score: 6.6

Waterboys

Score: 6.6

Heaven's Story

Score: 6.6

Dr. Akagi

Score: 6.6

Villain

Score: 6.6

Hard Days

Score: 6.6

September 1923

Score: 6.6

Journey to the Shore

Score: 6.5

Show Me the Way to the Station

Score: 6.5

Elevator to the Gallows

Score: 6.5

Don't Lose Your Head!

Score: 6.5

A Lone Scalpel

Score: 6.5

It's Only Talk

Score: 6.5

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Score: 6.5

Haru's Journey

Score: 6.5

The Silk Road

Score: 6.5

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

Score: 6.5

The Promised Land

Score: 6.5

Disciples of Hippocrates

Score: 6.4

11 Minutes, 9 Seconds, 1 Image

Score: 6.4

Ripples

Score: 6.4

The Lakeside Murder Case

Score: 6.4

The Lightning Tree

Score: 6.4

The Motive

Score: 6.4

Zebraman

Score: 6.3

Happy Flight

Score: 6.3

Beijing Watermelon

Score: 6.3

The Go Master

Score: 6.3

Will to Live

Score: 6.3

Wandering

Score: 6.3

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

Score: 6.3

The Great Yokai War

Score: 6.3

Shippu Rondo

Score: 6.3

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Score: 6.2

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Score: 6.2

Mukoku

Score: 6.2

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

Score: 6.2

Humanoid Monster, Bem

Score: 6.2

Starfish Hotel

Score: 6.2

The City of Lost Souls

Score: 6.2

Another Heaven

Score: 6.1

The Mohican Comes Home

Score: 6.1

The Most Beautiful Night In The World

Score: 6.1

Ace Attorney

Score: 6.1

Tetsujin 28: The Movie

Score: 6.0

Stardust Over The Town

Score: 6.0

Teacher and Three Children

Score: 6.0

Maru

Score: 6.0

No Place to Go

Score: 6.0

Time Trip App

Score: 6.0

Moon and Cherry

Score: 6.0

The Last Frankenstein

Score: 6.0

Yellow Elephant

Score: 6.0

The Setting Sun

Score: 6.0

The Yen Family

Score: 5.9

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

Score: 5.9

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

Score: 5.9

Noise

Score: 5.9

Kaza-hana

Score: 5.8

Ninja Kids!!!

Score: 5.8

The Big Bee

Score: 5.7

Capone Cries a Lot

Score: 5.7

Umami

Score: 5.7

The Chasing World

Score: 5.6

Japan Sinks

Score: 5.5

Oh! Father

Score: 5.5

KT

Score: 5.5

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Score: 5.4

Double Bed

Score: 5.4

Postcard

Score: 5.4

Yona Yona Penguin

Score: 5.3

The Shadow Spirit

Score: 5.3

The Innocent Game

Score: 5.3

Drugstore Girl

Score: 5.2

Samurai Resurrection

Score: 5.0

The Second Is a Christian

Score: 5.0

Touken Ranbu 2

Score: 5.0

The Key

Score: 4.9

In His Chart

Score: 4.9

A Crowd of Three

Score: 4.9

Life Back Then

Score: 4.8

Hutch the Honeybee

Score: 4.7

Rain Fall

Score: 4.6

Neko Ninja

Score: 4.5

The War and a Woman

Score: 4.2

Three for the Road

Score: 4.0

Bedtime Eyes

Score: 3.3

Private Lessons II

Score: 2.7

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity

Score: 2.5

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2

Score: 2.0

Body and Soul

Score: 1.0

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

Score: 1.0

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

Score: 0.0

One Last Throw

Score: 0.0

The Partner

Score: 0.0

The Final Piece

Score: 0.0

Kyoto Hippocrates

Score: 0.0

The God of Curling

Score: 0.0

Finding Light at the Darkness Festival

Score: 0.0

Takada Wataru Teki

Score: 0.0

空蝉の森

Score: 0.0

The Dog Bridegroom

Score: 0.0

Godot of the Emotos

Score: 0.0

Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha

Score: 0.0

Legend of the Cat Monster

Score: 0.0

Congratulatory Speech

Score: 0.0

Make-Up

Score: 0.0

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie

Score: 0.0

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

Score: 0.0

Universal Laws

Score: 0.0

Winning Pass

Score: 0.0

A Sower of Seeds

Score: 0.0

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

Score: 0.0

Sniper

Score: 0.0

A Tale of Young Elopement

Score: 0.0

Goodbye Mama

Score: 0.0

Shikei Kijun

Score: 0.0

A Grain of Wheat

Score: 0.0

The Hunter and the Hunted

Score: 0.0

Random Lives

Score: 0.0

A Living Promise

Score: 0.0

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

Score: 0.0

Dance till Tomorrow

Score: 0.0

Hana

Score: 0.0

Maria's Stomach

Score: 0.0

The Summer of Stickleback

Score: 0.0

Love Letter

Score: 0.0

The Man from Shimizu

Score: 0.0

A House on a Hill

Score: 0.0

Rental Family

Score: 0.0

Roar of the Crowd

Score: 0.0

I Can Hear the Duck Singing

Score: 0.0

The Cycling Genius Is Coming!

Score: 0.0

The Rainbow Seeker

Score: 0.0

Cold

Score: 0.0

Abduction

Score: 0.0

Present for You

Score: 0.0

The Happiness

Score: 0.0

Barber's Sorrow

Score: 0.0

Barber Shop with a View of the Sea

Score: 0.0

祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

Score: 0.0

For the coming day

Score: 0.0

Goal of the Sky

Score: 0.0

Manhattan Kiss

Score: 0.0

One Day in January

Score: 0.0

Betrayal tomorrow

Score: 0.0

Worst by Chance

Score: 0.0

Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun

Score: 0.0

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Score: 0.0

Living Rights

Score: 0.0

The Great Department Store Robbery

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Mori no Asagao

Score: 10.0

Folktales from Japan

Score: 9.0

Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later

Score: 9.0

Kumokiri Nizaemon

Score: 8.5

Black Kite

Score: 8.4

The Private Detective Mike

Score: 8.4

Segodon

Score: 8.3

Hanzawa Naoki

Score: 8.2

Clouds Over the Hill

Score: 8.1

Good Doctor

Score: 8.1

Love That Makes You Cry

Score: 8.1

Shinjuku Field Hospital

Score: 8.0

Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation

Score: 8.0

Absolute Zero

Score: 8.0

In Hand

Score: 8.0

HUNTER - Women After Reward Money

Score: 8.0

Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai

Score: 8.0

Banjo no Himawari

Score: 8.0

Lost Man Found

Score: 7.9

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Score: 7.9

Get Ready!

Score: 7.8

Haru and Natsu

Score: 7.8

Genroku Ryoran

Score: 7.8

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Score: 7.6

Ten Count to the Future

Score: 7.6

Teen Regime

Score: 7.5

Ties of Shooting Stars

Score: 7.5

Water Boys

Score: 7.2

Goodbye My Dear

Score: 7.0

Humanoid Monster Bem

Score: 7.0

Frankenstein's Love

Score: 7.0

A Life

Score: 7.0

Love and Glory

Score: 7.0

Silver and Gold

Score: 6.7

The Long Goodbye

Score: 6.6

Prince Shotoku

Score: 6.0

Japanese Style

Score: 6.0

The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors

Score: 6.0

Tokumei! Keiji Dongame

Score: 6.0

愛の流刑地

Score: 0.0

ホットドッグ

Score: 0.0

疑惑

Score: 0.0

あそびにおいでョ!

Score: 0.0

Love & War of a Samurai

Score: 0.0

Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru

Score: 0.0

Eighth Shogun Yoshimune

Score: 0.0

Taiheiki

Score: 0.0

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Score: 0.0

Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka

Score: 0.0

JK to Roppozensho

Score: 0.0

竜馬がゆく

Score: 0.0

Platinum Town

Score: 0.0

新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜

Score: 0.0

Yanchakure

Score: 0.0

混声の森

Score: 0.0

水曜ドラマスペシャル

Score: 0.0

満天のゴール

Score: 0.0

Family Court Judge

Score: 0.0

Olympic Ransom

Score: 0.0

てにあまる

Score: 0.0

Home Sweet Tokyo

Score: 0.0

Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses

Score: 0.0