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.
9 TV shows
TV Shows
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
tv asahi
Segodon
NHK BS1
Absolute Zero
Fuji TV
Hanzawa Naoki
TBS
Love and Glory
NHK
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
NHK G
The Private Detective Mike
Nippon TV
Clouds Over the Hill
NHK BS1
Ten Count to the Future
tv asahi
Other Credits
Genroku Ryoran, Banjo no Himawari, Water Boys, Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later, Tokumei! Keiji Dongame, Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai, Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses, The Long Goodbye, Home Sweet Tokyo, Ties of Shooting Stars, Haru and Natsu, てにあまる, HUNTER - Women After Reward Money, Olympic Ransom, Love That Makes You Cry, A Life, Frankenstein's Love, Family Court Judge, 満天のゴール, In Hand, 水曜ドラマスペシャル, Silver and Gold, Good Doctor, Teen Regime, Folktales from Japan, 混声の森, Kumokiri Nizaemon, Yanchakure, Humanoid Monster Bem, Black Kite, The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors, Goodbye My Dear, Japanese Style, Lost Man Found, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Prince Shotoku, 新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜, Platinum Town, Mori no Asagao, Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation, 竜馬がゆく, Get Ready!, JK to Roppozensho, Shinjuku Field Hospital, Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka, Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko, Taiheiki, Eighth Shogun Yoshimune, Arashi no Namida, Love & War of a Samurai, あそびにおいでョ!, 疑惑, ホットドッグ, 愛の流刑地, A Woman from Ashio, Scandal Eve, Convenience Store Kyodai, 無垢なる証人, Song of the Samurai