Acting credits
299
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Akira Emoto
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.7
Moderate attention
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Movies: 239Series: 61Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 13283
IMDb ID: nm0256628
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1948
Age: 77
Place of birth: Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2026
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.72
Wikidata: Q873921
Also known as
柄本 明 • エモトアキラ • エモト アキラ
Other jobs
Director (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Akira Emoto.
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026 Movie
One Last Throw
as Kawato Kozo
2025 Movie
7.9
Rental Family
as Kikuo Hasegawa
2025 Movie
9.4
The Final Piece
as Motoji Kanesaki
2025 Movie
8.0
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025 Movie
7.0
The Boy and the Dog
as Yaichi Katano
2025 Movie
8.4
Samurai Fury
2025 Movie
The God of Curling
as Susumu Komiyama
2024 Movie
6.0
Maru
as Teacher
2024 Movie
Rotting
2024 Movie
6.5
Don't Lose Your Head!
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
2024 Movie
5.3
The Innocent Game
2023 Movie
6.5
September 1923
as Teiji Igusa
2023 Movie
Goal of the Sky
2023 Movie
6.4
Ripples
as Taro Kadokura
2023 Movie
6.6
Hard Days
as Yutaka Senba
2023 Movie
5.0
Touken Ranbu 2
as Fujiwara no Michinaga
2023 Movie
7.6
Do Unto Others
as Shosaku Shiba
2023 Movie
6.8
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
as regular customer
2023 Movie
7.6
Shylock's Children
as Hajime Sawazaki
2023 Movie
7.1
Egoist
as Yoshio Saito
2023 Movie
5.7
Umami
as Salaryman
2023 Movie
7.0
A Man
as Norio Komiura
2022 Movie
6.0
The Setting Sun
as Dr. Miyake
2022 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Akira Emoto.
Scandal Eve
3 eps
2025 Series
8.0
Shinjuku Field Hospital
as Keisuke Takamine • 11 eps
2024 Series
JK to Roppozensho
as 桜木倫太郎 • 8 eps
2024 Series
満天のゴール
as トクじい • 2 eps
2023 Series
7.8
Get Ready!
as Hiroshi Bojo • 1 eps
2023 Series
6.0
Japanese Style
as Hifuji Umekoshi • 9 eps
2022 Series
7.0
Goodbye My Dear
as Hiroshi Yamawaki • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.0
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
as Yotaro Befunokami • 10 eps
2022 Series
混声の森
2 eps
2022 Series
7.9
Lost Man Found
as Himself • 10 eps
2022 Series
7.5
Teen Regime
as Washida Tsuguaki • 5 eps
2022 Series
7.6
Ten Count to the Future
as Kenzo Ashiya • 9 eps
2022 Series
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ) • 6 eps
2021 Series
9.0
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
as Kawabata • 3 eps
2021 Series
てにあまる
1 eps
2021 Series
8.0
Banjo no Himawari
4 eps
2019 Series
8.0
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
as 铃本茂树 • 6 eps
2019 Series
8.0
In Hand
1 eps
2019 Series
8.1
Good Doctor
as Akira Shiga • 10 eps
2018 Series
8.3
Segodon
as Ryu Samin • 2 eps
2018 Series
Home Sweet Tokyo
as [Ramen Shop Owner] • 1 eps
2017 Series
7.0
Frankenstein's Love
as Tsurumaru • 10 eps
2017 Series
7.0
A Life
as Danjo Toranosuke • 10 eps
2017 Series
6.7
Silver and Gold
as Hitoshi Kuramae • 4 eps
2017 Series