Birthday
1948/11/03 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Also know as
에모토 아키라, Акира Эмото, 柄本 明, آکیرا اموتو
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, ...Read more
(2003) Zatoichi
as Pub Owner
(2023) Umami
as Salaryman
(2023) Hard Days
as Yutaka Senba
(1987) The Great Department Store Robbery
as ---
(1997) The Eel
as Tamotsu Takasaki
(2010) A Crowd of Three
as ---
(2022) Noise
as Shoji
(2012) The Life of Budori Gusuko
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
(2001) Turn
as Matsubara
(2005) The Great Yokai War
as ---
(2013) Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
as ---
(2015) Living Rights
as ---
(2009) Rain Fall
as Tatsu Ishikura
(2000) The City of Lost Souls
as Kuwata
(2008) ICHI
as ---
(2010) Villain
as Yoshio Ishibashi
(1999) Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
as Tatsuo
(2010) Sakurada Gate Incident
as Magojiro Kaneko
(2021) Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
as ---
(2005) The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
as Seigo Tsuda
(2003) Worst by Chance
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
(1990) Betrayal tomorrow
as ---
(2012) One Day in January
as ---
(2010) Golden Slumber
as Hodogaya Yasushi
(1994) Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
as Major Akira Yuki
(1998) Dr. Akagi
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
(1995) Maborosi
as Yoshihiro
(2008) The Chasing World
as Doctor
(2008) Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
as Counselor
(1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
(1988) The Silk Road
as ---
(1985) I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as Hirofumi Maruyama
(2007) Starfish Hotel
as Mr. Trickster
(2011) In His Chart
as Doctor
(1992) Manhattan Kiss
as ---
(2009) April Bride
as Teishi Nagashima
(2012) Ace Attorney
as Saibancho (Judge)
(2011) Karate-Robo Zaborgar
as Dr. Akunomiya
(2023) Goal of the Sky
as ---
(2010) Haru's Journey
as Michio Nakai
(2005) For the coming day
as ---
(2013) Unforgiven
as Kingo Baba
(2022) The Setting Sun
as Dr. Miyake
(2004) The Motive
as Yoshifumi Katakura
(1994) The Friends
as Nagatomo
(2023) September 1923
as Teiji Igusa
(2011) Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as Yoneuchi
(1982) Lovers Lost
as Ishizuka
(2022) Wandering
as Agata
(2010) Cast Me If You Can
as Homeless guy
(2019) BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
(2010) The Lightning Tree
as Kakunoshi Enokido
(2014) A Woman from Ashio
as ---
(2013) Yellow Elephant
as Arechi
(2021) 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
as ---
(2023) Touken Ranbu 2
as ---
(2022) 海の見える理髪店
as 老店主
(2023) The Innocent Game
as ---
(2013) The War and a Woman
as client of woman
(1993) Private Lessons II
as Oba
(2008) The Taste of Fish
as Shojiro Sanada
(2007) The Shadow Spirit
as mimasaka koushirou
(2003) Owl
as ---
(2002) KT
as Hiroshi Uchiyama
(2008) The Most Beautiful Night In The World
as Journalist
(1999) Will to Live
as Doctor
(2014) Wood Job!
as Toshiro Yamane
(2014) 0.5 mm
as Takeshi Sasaki
(2009) John Rabe
as Matsui Iwane
(1979) Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
as Daigorô Hatayama
(2011) Life Back Then
as Masashi Inoue
(2014) Oh! Father
as Hayashi Tomita
(2010) Postcard
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
(2003) Farewell, Kuro
as Shuzo Hanazono
(2004) The Lakeside Murder Case
as Tomoharu Fujima
(2002) Barber's Sorrow
as ---
(2023) Shylock's Children
as Hajime Sawazaki
(1991) The Last Frankenstein
as Prof. Sarusawa
(2000) The Whispered City
as Artist
(2006) The Happiness
as ---
(2008) All Around Us
as kunimasa Yasuda
(2011) Ninja Kids!!!
as ---
(2013) Present for You
as ---
(2006) Memories of Matsuko
as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
(2023) Yudo: The Way of the Bath
as regular customer
(2004) River of First Love
as Hidejiro Tasaki
(2007) The Go Master
as Kensaku Segoe
(2010) After the Flowers
as Soan Nagai
(2007) Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
(1997) Abduction
as ---
(1989) Beijing Watermelon
as Mr. Teramoto
(2006) It's Only Talk
as ---
(2007) Life Can Be So Wonderful
as Haeo
(2014) Cold
as Jin Ichinose
(1996) The Rainbow Seeker
as ---
(2004) Moon and Cherry
as Sakamoto
(2006) Japan Sinks
as ---
(2008) The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
as ---
(1992) Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
as ---
(2014) Time Trip App
as Ryuzo Yanagita
(2012) Humanoid Monster, Bem
as Kao no nai otoko
(2009) Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as Itsuro Usui
(1993) I Can Hear the Duck Singing
as ---
(2010) A Lone Scalpel
as Matsuo Okawa
(1990) Roar of the Crowd
as ---
(2005) Scrap Heaven
as Detective Yabuta
(2010) Heaven's Story
as Souichi
(1989) Fancy Dance
as Masoho's boss
(2015) Journey to the Shore
as Mr. Hoshitani
(2015) Vampire in Love
as Sojiro
(2023) Egoist
as Yoshio Saito
Rental Family
as ---
(2023) Ripples
as Taro Kadokura
(2014) A House on a Hill
as Yoshitarō Terashima
(2014) Sleeping Forest
as Daisuke Ota
(1982) The Man from Shimizu
as ---
(1999) Round About Midnight
as Totsuka
(1998) Love Letter
as ---
(2023) Do Unto Others
as Shosaku Shiba
(2015) GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
as Priest Soutatsu
(1988) Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
as Yakuza
(1985) Capone Cries a Lot
as Ushiemon
(2022) No Place to Go
as ---
(2000) Nagisa
as Priest
(2025) Muromachi Burai
as ---
(2004) Drugstore Girl
as Koji Nabeshima
(1981) Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Detective Kuroki
(2016) The Mohican Comes Home
as Osamu Tamura
(2015) The Big Bee
as Murofushi
(2006) The Summer of Stickleback
as ---
(2016) Shin Godzilla
as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
(1990) Maria's Stomach
as ---
(1985) The Second Is a Christian
as Kumashiro
(1993) When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
as (voice)
(2024) Migawari Mission
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
(2003) Doppelganger
as Murakami
(2016) Black Widow Business
as Jun Sakurada
(1989) Battle Heater
as Riichi Hama
(1989) Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as Hyoma Sakaguchi
(1982) Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Kondo
(2003) Hana
as Hiroshi Torigoe
(1988) The Yen Family
as Shinichi Amemiya
(2015) The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Kumaji Ueda
(2010) Elevator to the Gallows
as ---
(2016) Shippu Rondo
as Masaomi Togo
(2011) A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
as wet guy
(1989) Harimao
as Army Major
(1991) Dance till Tomorrow
as ---
(2024) Maru
as ---
(2001) Kaza-hana
as Hot Spring Inn Owner
(2013) Fly, Dakota, Fly!
as ---
(2017) Lu Over the Wall
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
(1984) Location
as Konno
(2017) Mukoku
as Seppo Mitsumura
(2001) Waterboys
as Mama
(2016) A Living Promise
as Zenzo Takeda
(1988) Revolver
as Keisuke Mineya
(2017) Random Lives
as Hanamura
(1982) Suspicion
as Shigekazu Akitani
(1983) Double Bed
as Tôru Yamazaki
(2018) Color Me True
as Tadashi Honda
(2008) Teacher and Three Children
as Yoshio Ichikawa
(2004) The Hunter and the Hunted
as Neko
(2016) A Grain of Wheat
as Honda
(1989) Mottomo Abunai Deka
as Maeo
(1996) Free and Easy 8
as Yukawa
(2000) Another Heaven
as Doctor Akagi
(2018) Evil and The Mask
as Detective Aida
(2011) Shikei Kijun
as Kyusaku Tsushima
(2018) Shoplifters
as Yoritsugu Kawado
(2017) Neko Ninja
as Kariyazaki
(1987) The Heartbreak Yakuza
as ---
(2010) Hutch the Honeybee
as ---
(2018) Recall
as Seiji Nomura
(2005) Love Is Five Seven Five
as Grandfather
(1987) Bedtime Eyes
as ---
(2002) 11’09”01—September 11
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
(2019) Iwane: Sword of Serenity
as Urakusai
(1991) Goodbye Mama
as ---
(1987) A Tale of Young Elopement
as Matsuda
(2016) Sniper
as Tatsuyuki Miyata
(2016) Survival Family
as Sasaki Shigeomi
(2009) Yona Yona Penguin
as Jii (voice)
(1979) Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
as Kantarô Iwata
(2019) Castle of Sand
as Chiyokichi
(2012) A Sower of Seeds
as Shuzo Morikawa
(2018) Oz Land
as Boss
(2019) They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as Toichi
(2019) The Promised Land
as Goro Fujiki
(2004) Winning Pass
as ---
(1997) Body and Soul
as ---
(2007) Three for the Road
as ---
(2012) Casting Blossoms to the Sky
as Seijiro Nose
(2019) Show Me the Way to the Station
as ---
(1990) Universal Laws
as ---
(1997) The Key
as Soichiro Anzai
(1980) Disciples of Hippocrates
as ---
(1999) The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
as Matashichi
(1996) Shall We Dance?
as Detective Miwa
(1979) Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
as ---
(1984) Make-Up
as Kikuo Tsutano
(2020) Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
as ---
(1985) Congratulatory Speech
as Yasuhei Higashida
(2021) Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as Shop Owner
(1983) Legend of the Cat Monster
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
(2009) Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
as Shotaro
(2020) Living in the Sky
as Concierge Kondo
(2019) Godot of the Emotos
as ---
(2020) Underdog: Part One
as Sakuro
(2008) Happy Flight
as Saito
(2020) Stardust Over The Town
as Kumabe Rokuzo
(2004) Zebraman
as Kitahara the Crab Man
(2003) Teacher's suitcase
as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
(2021) The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as old man
(2017) Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
as ---
(2019) It Feels So Good
as Kenji's Father (voice)
(2017) The Dog Bridegroom
as Kenkichi Okumura
(2005) Tetsujin 28: The Movie
as Yunosuke Otsuka
(2021) The End of the Tiny World
as Kawabata
(2020) I Never Shot Anyone
as Takashi Renjo
(2020) Wonderful Paradise
as Homeless
(1991) A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Kogoro Katsura
(2022) A Man
as Norio Komiura
(2007) Prodigy
as Hisashi Kikuna
(2025) The Boy and the Dog
as ---
(2021) 空蝉の森
as Police Inspector kariya shinichi
(2021) The Great Yokai War: Guardians
as Old Man
(2003) Samurai Resurrection
as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
(1983) Amagi Pass
as ---
(1999) Genroku Ryoran
as Genshiro
(2019) Banjo no Himawari
as ---
(2003) Water Boys
as Mama (of a bar)
(2021) Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
as Kawabata
(2006) Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
as ---
(2006) Love and Glory
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
(1999) Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
as ---
(2018) Segodon
as Ryu Samin
(2021) Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
(2002) The Private Detective Mike
as ---
(2014) The Long Goodbye
as Heizo Harada
(2017) Home Sweet Tokyo
as [Ramen Shop Owner]
(2008) Ties of Shooting Stars
as Togami Masayuki
(2005) Haru and Natsu
as Kotaro Nakayama
(2021) てにあまる
as ---
(2011) HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
as Shogo Ooiwa
(2013) Olympic Ransom
as ---
(2016) Love That Makes You Cry
as Masahiko Hayashida
(2017) A Life
as Danjo Toranosuke
(2017) Frankenstein's Love
as Tsurumaru
(1993) Family Court Judge
as Shibuya Naomasa
(2023) 満天のゴール
as トクじい
(2022) Ten Count to the Future
as Kenzo Ashiya
(2019) In Hand
as ---
(1984) 水曜ドラマスペシャル
as ---
(2017) Silver and Gold
as Hitoshi Kuramae
(2010) Absolute Zero
as Sosuke Kagami
(2018) Good Doctor
as Akira Shiga
(2022) Teen Regime
as Washida Tsuguaki
(2022) The Honest Realtor
as Tetsuo Kishi
(2002) AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Hyoue Yarikura
(2012) Folktales from Japan
as ---
(2022) 混声の森
as ---
(2013) Kumokiri Nizaemon
as ---
(1998) Yanchakure
as 水嶋钦一
(2011) Humanoid Monster Bem
as Nameless Man
(2013) Black Kite
as Kaiun
(2022) The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
as Yotaro Befunokami
(2022) Goodbye My Dear
as Hiroshi Yamawaki
(2022) Japanese Style
as Hifuji Umekoshi
(2022) Lost Man Found
as Himself
(2016) Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
as Sfar
(2001) Prince Shotoku
as Anahobe no miko
(2015) 新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
as ---
(2012) Platinum Town
as ---
(2010) Mori no Asagao
as Keizukuri Hukahori
(2019) Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
as 铃本茂树
(2004) 竜馬がゆく
as ---
(2023) Get Ready!
as Hiroshi Bojo
(2024) JK to Roppozensho
as 桜木倫太郎
(2024) Shinjuku Field Hospital
as Keisuke Takamine
(2010) Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
as ---
(2002) Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
as ---
(2013) Hanzawa Naoki
as Keiji Minobe
(1991) Taiheiki
as Moronao Kô-no
(1995) Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
as Tokugawa Munenao
(2016) Arashi no Namida - Watakushitachi ni Asu wa Aru
as ---