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Personal Info

Birth date

1948-11-03 (76 Years)

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Chūō, Tokyo, Japan

Also known as

에모토 아키라
Акира Эмото
柄本 明
آکیرا اموتو
Akira 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, 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

Acting

2026The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat as Unknown

2025One Last Throw as Unknown

2025Rental Family as Kikuo Hasegawa

2025The Final Piece as Motoji Kanesaki

2025Kyoto Hippocrates as Unknown

2025The Way of The Prison Guard as Unknown

2025The Boy and the Dog as Yaichi Katano

2025Samurai Fury as Unknown

2024The God of Curling as Susumu Komiyama

2024Maru as Teacher

2024Shinjuku Field Hospital (11 Episodes) as Keisuke Takamine

2024JK to Roppozensho (8 Episodes) as 桜木倫太郎

2024Migawari Mission as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu

2023The Innocent Game as Unknown

2023満天のゴール (2 Episodes) as トクじい

2023September 1923 as Teiji Igusa

2023Goal of the Sky as Unknown

2023Ripples as Taro Kadokura

2023Hard Days as Yutaka Senba

2023Touken Ranbu 2 as Fujiwara no Michinaga

2023Do Unto Others as Shosaku Shiba

2023Yudo: The Way of the Bath as regular customer

2023Shylock's Children as Hajime Sawazaki

2023Egoist as Yoshio Saito

2023Umami as Salaryman

2023Get Ready! (1 Episode) as Hiroshi Bojo

2022A Man as Norio Komiura

2022The Setting Sun as Dr. Miyake

2022Japanese Style (9 Episodes) as Hifuji Umekoshi

2022No Place to Go as Unknown

2022Goodbye My Dear (1 Episode) as Hiroshi Yamawaki

2022The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors (10 Episodes) as Yotaro Befunokami

2022混声の森 (2 Episodes) as Unknown

2022Lost Man Found (10 Episodes) as Himself

2022Wandering as Agata

2022Barber Shop with a View of the Sea as 老店主

2022Teen Regime (5 Episodes) as Washida Tsuguaki

2022Ten Count to the Future (9 Episodes) as Kenzo Ashiya

2022Noise as Shoji

2021Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun as Unknown

2021Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai as Shop Owner

2021Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (6 Episodes) as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)

2021祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻― as Unknown

2021The Great Yokai War: Guardians as old man, Old Man

2021空蝉の森 as Police Inspector kariya shinichi

2021The End of the Tiny World as Kawabata

2021Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later (3 Episodes) as Kawabata

2021てにあまる (1 Episode) as Unknown

2020Underdog: Part One as Sakuro

2020Underdog: Part Two as Sakuro

2020Wonderful Paradise as Homeless

2020Living in the Sky as Concierge Kondo

2020Nosari: Impermanent Eternity as Unknown

2020I Never Shot Anyone as Takashi Renjo

2020Stardust Over The Town as Kumabe Rokuzo

2019Finding Light at the Darkness Festival as Unknown

2019The Promised Land as Goro Fujiki

2019Show Me the Way to the Station as Unknown

2019They Say Nothing Stays the Same as Toichi

2019Banjo no Himawari (4 Episodes) as Unknown

2019It Feels So Good as Kenji's Father (voice)

2019Iwane: Sword of Serenity as Urakusai

2019Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation (6 Episodes) as 铃本茂树

2019Godot of the Emotos as Unknown

2019In Hand (1 Episode) as Unknown

2019Castle of Sand as Chiyokichi

2019BON-UTA, A Song from Home as (voice)

2018Oz Land as Boss

2018Good Doctor (10 Episodes) as Akira Shiga

2018Recall as Seiji Nomura

2018Shoplifters as Yoritsugu Kawado

2018Color Me True as Tadashi Honda

2018Evil and The Mask as Detective Aida

2018Segodon (2 Episodes) as Ryu Samin

2017Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~ as Unknown

2017Home Sweet Tokyo (1 Episode) as [Ramen Shop Owner]

2017Mukoku as Seppo Mitsumura

2017Neko Ninja as Kariyazaki

2017Lu Over the Wall as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

2017The Dog Bridegroom as Kenkichi Okumura

2017Frankenstein's Love (10 Episodes) as Tsurumaru

2017Random Lives as Hanamura

2017A Life (10 Episodes) as Danjo Toranosuke

2017Silver and Gold (4 Episodes) as Hitoshi Kuramae

2016Survival Family as Sasaki Shigeomi

2016Shippu Rondo as Masaomi Togo

2016Sniper as Tatsuyuki Miyata

2016Black Widow Business as Jun Sakurada

2016A Grain of Wheat as Honda

2016Shin Godzilla as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

2016The Mohican Comes Home as Osamu Tamura

2016Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (9 Episodes) as Sfar

2016Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru (2 Episodes) as Unknown

2016Love That Makes You Cry (10 Episodes) as Masahiko Hayashida

2016A Living Promise as Zenzo Takeda

2015Journey to the Shore as Hoshitani

2015The Big Bee as Murofushi

2015The Pearls of the Stone Man as Kumaji Ueda

2015Vampire in Love as Sojiro

2015GARO -Gold Storm- Sho as Priest Soutatsu

2015Living Rights as Unknown

2015新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜 (1 Episode) as Unknown

2014A House on a Hill as Yoshitarō Terashima

20140.5 mm as Takeshi Sasaki

2014Cold as Jin Ichinose

2014Time Trip App as Ryuzo Yanagita

2014Oh! Father as Hayashi Tomita

2014Wood Job! as Toshiro Yamane

2014The Long Goodbye (5 Episodes) as Heizo Harada

2014A Woman from Ashio as Unknown

2014Sleeping Forest as Daisuke Ota

2013Olympic Ransom (2 Episodes) as Unknown

2013Fly, Dakota, Fly! as Unknown

2013Present for You as Unknown

2013The Partner as Ōkuma Shigenobu

2013Unforgiven as Kingo Baba

2013Hanzawa Naoki (10 Episodes) as Keiji Minobe

2013The War and a Woman as client of woman

2013Kumokiri Nizaemon (3 Episodes) as Unknown

2013Yellow Elephant as Arechi

2013Black Kite (10 Episodes) as Kaiun

2013Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark as Unknown

2012Humanoid Monster, Bem as Kao no nai otoko

2012One Day in January as Unknown

2012疑惑 (1 Episode) as Unknown

2012Platinum Town (5 Episodes) as Unknown

2012The Life of Budori Gusuko as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)

2012Casting Blossoms to the Sky as Seijiro Nose

2012Folktales from Japan (346 Episodes) as Unknown

2012A Sower of Seeds as Shuzo Morikawa

2012Ace Attorney as Saibancho (Judge)

2011Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Yoneuchi

2011Life Back Then as Masashi Inoue

2011Humanoid Monster Bem (10 Episodes) as Nameless Man

2011Karate-Robo Zaborgar as Dr. Akunomiya

2011HUNTER - Women After Reward Money (10 Episodes) as Shogo Ooiwa

2011Shikei Kijun as Kyusaku Tsushima

2011In His Chart as Doctor

2011Ninja Kids!!! as Unknown

2011A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip as wet guy

2010Postcard as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law

2010Cast Me If You Can as Homeless guy

2010The Lightning Tree as Kakunoshi Enokido

2010Mori no Asagao (10 Episodes) as Keizukuri Hukahori

2010Sakurada Gate Incident as Magojiro Kaneko

2010Elevator to the Gallows as Soichi Yanagimachi

2010Heaven's Story as Souichi

2010Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka (2 Episodes) as Unknown

2010Villain as Yoshio Ishibashi

2010Hutch the Honeybee as Unknown

2010A Crowd of Three as Unknown

2010A Lone Scalpel as Matsuo Okawa

2010Haru's Journey as Michio Nakai

2010Absolute Zero (11 Episodes) as Sosuke Kagami

2010After the Flowers as Soan Nagai

2010Golden Slumber as Hodogaya Yasushi

2009Yona Yona Penguin as Jii (voice)

2009Clouds Over the Hill (9 Episodes) as 乃木知幸介

2009Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha as Shotaro

2009April Bride as Teishi Nagashima

2009Rain Fall as Tatsu Ishikura

2009John Rabe as Matsui Iwane

2009Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky as Itsuro Usui

2008Happy Flight as Saito

2008ICHI as Unknown

2008Ties of Shooting Stars (10 Episodes) as Togami Masayuki

2008Teacher and Three Children as Yoshio Ichikawa

2008Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as Counselor

2008The Cycling Genius Is Coming! as Unknown

2008The Taste of Fish as Shojiro Sanada

2008All Around Us as kunimasa Yasuda

2008The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Journalist

2008The Chasing World as Doctor

2007The Shadow Spirit as mimasaka koushirou

2007Prodigy as Hisashi Kikuna

2007Life Can Be So Wonderful as Haeo

2007Three for the Road as Unknown

2007The Go Master as Kensaku Segoe

2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic

2007愛の流刑地 (2 Episodes) as 北冈耕造

2007Starfish Hotel as Mr. Trickster

2006The Happiness as Unknown

2006The Summer of Stickleback as Unknown

2006Japan Sinks as Professor Fukuhara

2006It's Only Talk as Unknown

2006Memories of Matsuko as Tsunehiro Kawajiri

2006Tokumei! Keiji Dongame (15 Episodes) as Unknown

2006Love and Glory (49 Episodes) as Hideyoshi Toyotomi

2005Scrap Heaven as Detective Yabuta

2005Haru and Natsu (5 Episodes) as Kotaro Nakayama

2005The Suspect: Muroi Shinji as Seigo Tsuda

2005The Great Yokai War as Unknown

2005For the coming day as Unknown

2005Love Is Five Seven Five as Grandfather

2005Tetsujin 28: The Movie as Yunosuke Otsuka

2004Moon and Cherry as Sakamoto

2004The Motive as Yoshifumi Katakura

2004River of First Love as Hidejiro Tasaki

2004Takada Wataru Teki as Self

2004Drugstore Girl as Koji Nabeshima

2004Zebraman as Kitahara the Crab Man

2004Winning Pass as Unknown

2004The Lakeside Murder Case as Tomoharu Fujima

2004The Hunter and the Hunted as Neko

2004竜馬がゆく (4 Episodes) as Unknown

2003Hana as Hiroshi Torigoe

2003Doppelganger as Murakami

2003Worst by Chance as Shigeharu Kaneshiro

2003Zatoichi as Pub Owner

2003Love & War of a Samurai (7 Episodes) as Unknown

2003Farewell, Kuro as Shuzo Hanazono

2003Water Boys (11 Episodes) as Mama (of a bar)

2003Samurai Resurrection as Nobutsuna Matsudaira

2003Teacher's suitcase as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna

2003Owl as Unknown

2002Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko (4 Episodes) as Unknown

2002Barber's Sorrow as Unknown

2002AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (9 Episodes) as Hyoue Yarikura

200211 Minutes, 9 Seconds, 1 Image as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

2002The Private Detective Mike (1 Episode) as Unknown

2002KT as Hiroshi Uchiyama

2001Prince Shotoku (2 Episodes) as Anahobe no miko

2001Turn as Matsubara

2001Waterboys as Mama

2001Kaza-hana as Hot Spring Inn Owner

2000The City of Lost Souls as Kuwata

2000The Whispered City as Artist

2000Nagisa as Priest

2000Another Heaven as Doctor Akagi

1999Kaizokuban Bootleg Film as Tatsuo

1999The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe as Matashichi

1999Round About Midnight as Totsuka

1999Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai (11 Episodes) as Unknown

1999Will to Live as Doctor

1999Genroku Ryoran (49 Episodes) as Genshiro

1998Yanchakure (150 Episodes) as 水嶋钦一

1998Love Letter as Unknown

1998Dr. Akagi as Dr. Fuu Akagi

1997Body and Soul as Unknown

1997The Key as Soichiro Anzai

1997Abduction as Unknown

1997The Eel as Tamotsu Takasaki

1996The Rainbow Seeker as Unknown

1996Free and Easy 8 as Yukawa

1996Shall We Dance? as Detective Miwa

1995Maborosi as Yoshihiro

1995Eighth Shogun Yoshimune (48 Episodes) as Tokugawa Munenao

1994Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla as Major Akira Yuki

1994The Friends as Nagatomo

1993I Can Hear the Duck Singing as Unknown

1993When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang as Narrator (voice)

1993Private Lessons II as Oba

1993Family Court Judge (12 Episodes) as Shibuya Naomasa

1992Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 as Unknown

1992Manhattan Kiss as Unknown

1992Sumo Do, Sumo Don't as Professor Tokichi Anayama

1991A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era as Kogoro Katsura

1991Dance till Tomorrow as Unknown

1991The Last Frankenstein as Prof. Sarusawa

1991Goodbye Mama as Unknown

1991Taiheiki (49 Episodes) as Moronao Kô-no

1990Betrayal tomorrow as Unknown

1990Maria's Stomach as Unknown

1990Roar of the Crowd as Unknown

1990ホットドッグ (1 Episode) as 大田原輝

1990Universal Laws as Unknown

1989Fancy Dance as Masoho's boss

1989Beijing Watermelon as Mr. Teramoto

1989Battle Heater as Riichi Hama

1989Tora-san Goes to Vienna as Hyoma Sakaguchi

1989Harimao as Army Major

1989Mottomo Abunai Deka as Maeo

1988Revolver as Keisuke Mineya

1988あそびにおいでョ! (1 Episode) as Unknown

1988The Silk Road as Unknown

1988The Yen Family as Shinichi Amemiya

1988Angel Guts: Red Vertigo as Yakuza

1987The Great Department Store Robbery as Unknown

1987The Heartbreak Yakuza as Unknown

1987Bedtime Eyes as Unknown

1987A Tale of Young Elopement as Matsuda

1985Congratulatory Speech as Yasuhei Higashida

1985The Second Is a Christian as Kumashiro

1985I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident as Hirofumi Maruyama

1985Capone Cries a Lot as Ushiemon

1984水曜ドラマスペシャル (1 Episode) as Unknown

1984Location as Konno

1984Make-Up as Kikuo Tsutano

1983Legend of the Cat Monster as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura

1983Double Bed as Tôru Yamazaki

1983Amagi Pass as Unknown

1982The Man from Shimizu as Unknown

1982Suspicion as Shigekazu Akitani

1982Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as Kondo

1982Lovers Lost as Ishizuka

1981Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Detective Kuroki

1980Disciples of Hippocrates as Unknown

1979Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman as Kantarô Iwata

1979Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie as Unknown

1979Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again as Daigorô Hatayama

Directing

1993Sky Cannot Be This Blue ... Director