Akira Emoto
Acting
Born November 3, 1948
From Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as 柄本 明, エモトアキラ, エモト アキラ
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 Toky...
Filmography
Kyoto Hippocrates
20268.0
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
20263.0
One Last Throw
Kawato Kozo
20257.0
Rental Family
Kikuo Hasegawa
20257.7
The Final Piece
Motoji Kanesaki
20259.4
The Way of The Prison Guard
20258.0
The Boy and the Dog
Yaichi Katano
20257.1
Samurai Fury
20258.0
The God of Curling
Susumu Komiyama
2024
Maru
Teacher
20246.0
Rotting
2024
Don't Lose Your Head!
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
20246.5
The Innocent Game
20235.3
September 1923
Teiji Igusa
20236.5
Goal of the Sky
2023
Ripples
Taro Kadokura
20236.5
Hard Days
Yutaka Senba
20236.6
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
Fujiwara no Michinaga
20235.0
Do Unto Others
Shosaku Shiba
20237.5
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
regular customer
20237.1
Shylock's Children
Hajime Sawazaki
20237.4
Egoist
Yoshio Saito
20237.0
Umami
Salaryman
20235.8
A Man
Norio Komiura
20227.1
The Setting Sun
Dr. Miyake
20226.0
No Place to Go
Bomber
20226.0
The Wandering Moon
Agata
20226.6
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
老店主
2022
Noise
Shoji
20225.9
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Shop Owner
20216.7
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
old man
20216.2
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Old Man
20216.2
Utsusemi no mori
Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
2021
The Master Plan
Kawabata
20217.7
Underdog: Part One
Sakuro
20207.2
Underdog: Part Two
Sakuro
20207.0
Wonderful Paradise
Homeless
20206.7
Living in the Sky
Concierge Kondo
20207.7
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
20202.5
I Never Shot Anyone
Takashi Renjo
20207.0
Stardust over the Town
Kumabe Rokuzo
20206.0
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
The Promised Land
Goro Fujiki
20196.0
Show Me the Way to the Station
20196.5
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi
20196.8
It Feels So Good
Kenji's Father (voice)
20196.6
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Urakusai
20197.8
Godot of the Emotos
2019
Castle of Sand
Chiyokichi
20198.7
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
20197.2
Oz Land
Boss
20187.4
Recall
Seiji Nomura
20186.8
Shoplifters
Yoritsugu Kawado
20187.8
Color Me True
Tadashi Honda
20187.5
Evil and The Mask
Detective Aida
20187.2
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
201710.0
Mukoku
Seppo Mitsumura
20176.8
Neko Ninja
Kariyazaki
20174.5
Lu Over the Wall
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
20177.0
The Dog Bridegroom
Kenkichi Okumura
2017
Survival Family
Sasaki Shigeomi
20177.3
Random Lives
Hanamura
2017
Shippu Rondo
Masaomi Togo
20166.0
Sniper
Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016
Black Widow Business
Jun Sakurada
20168.5
A Grain of Wheat
Honda
2016
Shin Godzilla
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
20167.2
The Mohican Comes Home
Osamu Tamura
20165.8
A Living Promise
Zenzo Takeda
2016
Journey to the Shore
Hoshitani
20156.6
The Big Bee
Murofushi
20155.7
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Kumaji Ueda
20158.3
Vampire in Love
Sojiro
20156.9
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
Priest Soutatsu
20157.4
Living Rights
2015
Present for You
2015
A House on a Hill
Yoshitarō Terashima
2014
0.5 mm
Takeshi Sasaki
20147.4
Cold
Jin Ichinose
2014
Time Trip App
Ryuzo Yanagita
20146.0
Oh! Father
Hayashi Tomita
20145.5
Wood Job!
Toshiro Yamane
20147.4
Sleeping Forest
Daisuke Ota
20147.1
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
The Partner
Ōkuma Shigenobu
2013
Unforgiven
Kingo Baba
20137.0
Ask This of Rikyu
20137.3
The War and a Woman
client of woman
20134.2
Yellow Elephant
Arechi
20136.2
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Lawyer
2013
Humanoid Monster, Bem
Kao no nai otoko
20126.2
One Day in January
20128.0
The Life of Budori Gusuko
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
20126.6
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Seijiro Nose
20126.9
A Sower of Seeds
Shuzo Morikawa
2012
Ace Attorney
Saibancho (Judge)
20126.1
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Yoneuchi
20116.3
Life Back Then
Masashi Inoue
20114.4
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Dr. Akunomiya
20115.9
Shikei Kijun
Kyusaku Tsushima
2011
In His Chart
Doctor
20114.9
Ninja Kids!!!
20115.9
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
wet guy
20118.5
Postcard
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
20105.8
Cast Me If You Can
Homeless guy
20107.5
The Lightning Tree
Kakunoshi Enokido
20107.0
Sakurada Gate Incident
Magojiro Kaneko
20107.4
Ekeb of Dekye
Soichi Yanagimachi
20106.6
Heaven's Story
Souichi
20106.6
Villain
Yoshio Ishibashi
20106.8
Hutch the Honeybee
20105.0
A Crowd of Three
20104.9
A Lone Scalpel
Matsuo Okawa
20106.5
Haru's Journey
Michio Nakai
20106.5
After the Flowers
Soan Nagai
20107.3
Golden Slumber
Hodogaya Yasushi
20107.1
Yona Yona Penguin
Jii (voice)
20095.3
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Shotaro
2009
April Bride
Teishi Nagashima
20096.8
Rain Fall
Tatsu Ishikura
20094.7
John Rabe
Matsui Iwane
20097.0
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Itsuro Usui
20098.8
Happy Flight
Saito
20086.4
ICHI
20086.7
Teacher and Three Children
Yoshio Ichikawa
20086.0
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Counselor
20086.6
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
Your Friend
20085.1
The Taste of Fish
Shojiro Sanada
20087.0
All Around Us
kunimasa Yasuda
20087.4
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Journalist
20085.6
The Chasing World
Doctor
20085.7
The Shadow Spirit
mimasaka koushirou
20075.3
Prodigy
Hisashi Kikuna
20077.4
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Haeo
20077.0
Three for the Road
20073.0
The Go Master
Kensaku Segoe
20076.5
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
20076.9
Starfish Hotel
Mr. Trickster
20076.2
The Happiness
2006
—
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Japan Sinks
Professor Fukuhara
20065.7
It's Only Talk
20066.3
Memories of Matsuko
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
20067.8
Scrap Heaven
Detective Yabuta
20057.6
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Seigo Tsuda
20056.4
The Great Yokai War
20056.3
—
For the coming day
2005
Love Is Five Seven Five
Grandfather
20057.5
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Yunosuke Otsuka
20056.3
The Lakeside Murder Case
Tomoharu Fujima
20056.5
Moon & Cherry
Sakamoto
20046.0
The Motive
Yoshifumi Katakura
20046.9
River of First Love
Hidejiro Tasaki
20046.8
Chicken Is Barefoot
20047.2
Takada Wataru Teki
Self
2004
Drugstore Girl
Koji Nabeshima
20045.2
Zebraman
Kitahara the Crab Man
20046.3
Winning Pass
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
Neko
200410.0
Hana
Hiroshi Torigoe
2003
Doppelgänger
Murakami
20037.0
Worst by Chance
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
20039.0
Zatoichi
Pub Owner
20037.2
Farewell, Kuro
Shuzo Hanazono
20037.2
Samurai Resurrection
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
20034.9
Teacher's suitcase
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
20037.0
Owl
20036.4
Barber's Sorrow
20028.0
September 11
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
20026.4
KT
Hiroshi Uchiyama
20026.7
Turn
Matsubara
20016.8
Waterboys
Mama
20016.6
Kaza-hana
Hot Spring Inn Owner
20015.6
The City of Lost Souls
Kuwata
20006.2
The Whispered City
Toyohashi, sculptor
20009.0
Nagisa
Priest Shinto
20007.0
Another Heaven
Doctor Akagi
20006.0
As the River Flows
20009.0
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Tatsuo
19996.1
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Matashichi
19999.0
Round About Midnight
Totsuka
19997.0
Will to Live
Doctor
19996.4
Love Letter
19988.0
Dr. Akagi
Dr. Fuu Akagi
19986.4
Body and Soul
Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
19973.0
The Key
Soichiro Anzai
19975.0
Abduction
Chief Superintendent Tachibana
19978.5
The Eel
Tamotsu Takasaki
19976.9
The Rainbow Seeker
19967.0
Free and Easy 8
Yukawa
19967.3
Shall We Dance?
Detective Miwa
19967.5
Maborosi
Yoshihiro
19957.5
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Major Akira Yuki
19946.7
The Friends
Nagatomo
19947.1
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
19939.0
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Narrator (voice)
19936.7
Private Lessons II
Oba
19933.5
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
19926.0
Manhattan Kiss
1992
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Professor Tokichi Anayama
19926.8
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Kogoro Katsura
19917.5
Dance till Tomorrow
199110.0
The Last Frankenstein
Prof. Sarusawa
19915.8
Goodbye Mama
19919.0
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
Maria's Stomach
199010.0
Roar of the Crowd
199010.0
Universal Laws
19909.0
Fancy Dance
Masoho's boss
19896.9
Beijing Watermelon
Mr. Teramoto
19896.6
Battle Heater
Riichi Hama
19897.5
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Hyoma Sakaguchi
19898.7
Harimao
Army Major
19898.0
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Maeo
19898.5
—
あじさい色のレディ
1988
Revolver
Keisuke Mineya
19887.3
The Silk Road
19886.5
The Yen Family
Shinichi Amemiya
19886.2
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Yakuza
19885.9
The Great Department Store Robbery
19879.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
19875.0
Bedtime Eyes
19874.7
A Tale of Young Elopement
Matsuda
19879.0
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
19866.6
Congratulatory Speech
Yasuhei Higashida
19857.0
The Second Is a Christian
Kumashiro
19856.0
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Hirofumi Maruyama
19853.7
Capone Cries a Lot
Ushiemon
19856.0
Location
Konno
19848.5
Make-Up
Kikuo Tsutano
198410.0
Legend of the Cat Monster
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
19835.0
Double Bed
Tôru Yamazaki
19835.1
Amagi Pass
19836.5
The Man from Shimizu
1982
Suspicion
Shigekazu Akitani
19827.0
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Kondo
19828.0
Lovers Lost
Ishizuka
19826.5
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Detective Kuroki
19817.1
Disciples of Hippocrates
19806.8
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Kantarô Iwata
19798.0
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Daigorô Hatayama
19796.1