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 The Boy and the Dog
2025
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Details Muromachi Burai
2025
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Details Migawari Mission
2024
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
Details The Innocent Game
2023
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Details September 1923
2023
Teiji Igusa
Details Goal of the Sky
2023
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Details Touken Ranbu 2
2023
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Details Do Unto Others
2023
Shosaku Shiba
Details Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
regular customer
Details Shylock's Children
2023
Hajime Sawazaki
Details The Setting Sun
2022
Dr. Miyake
Details No Place to Go
2022
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Details Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Character TBA
Details Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
Shop Owner
Details 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
Character TBA
Details The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
old man
Details The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
Old Man
Details 空蝉の森
2021
Police Inspector kariya shinichi
Details The End of the Tiny World
2021
Kawabata
Details Underdog: Part One
2020
Sakuro
Details Wonderful Paradise
2020
Homeless
Details Living in the Sky
2020
Concierge Kondo
Details Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
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Details I Never Shot Anyone
2020
Takashi Renjo
Details Stardust Over The Town
2020
Kumabe Rokuzo
Details The Promised Land
2019
Goro Fujiki
Details Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
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Details They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
Toichi
Details It Feels So Good
2019
Kenji's Father (voice)
Details Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019
Urakusai
Details Godot of the Emotos
2019
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Details Castle of Sand
2019
Chiyokichi
Details BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
(voice)
Details Shoplifters
2018
Yoritsugu Kawado
Details Color Me True
2018
Tadashi Honda
Details Evil and The Mask
2018
Detective Aida
Details Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
2017
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Details Lu Over the Wall
2017
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
Details The Dog Bridegroom
2017
Kenkichi Okumura
Details Survival Family
2016
Sasaki Shigeomi
Details Shippu Rondo
2016
Masaomi Togo
Details Black Widow Business
2016
Jun Sakurada
Details Shin Godzilla
2016
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
Details The Mohican Comes Home
2016
Osamu Tamura
Details A Living Promise
2016
Zenzo Takeda
Details Journey to the Shore
2015
Mr. Hoshitani
Details The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Kumaji Ueda
Details GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
2015
Priest Soutatsu
Details Living Rights
2015
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Details A House on a Hill
2014
Yoshitarō Terashima
Details Time Trip App
2014
Ryuzo Yanagita
Details Oh! Father
2014
Hayashi Tomita
Details Wood Job!
2014
Toshiro Yamane
Details A Woman from Ashio
2014
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Details Sleeping Forest
2014
Daisuke Ota
Details Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
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Details Present for You
2013
Character TBA
Details The War and a Woman
2013
client of woman
Details Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013
Character TBA
Details Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012
Kao no nai otoko
Details One Day in January
2012
Character TBA
Details The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
Details Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
Seijiro Nose
Details A Sower of Seeds
2012
Shuzo Morikawa
Details Ace Attorney
2012
Saibancho (Judge)
Details Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011
Yoneuchi
Details Life Back Then
2011
Masashi Inoue
Details Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011
Dr. Akunomiya
Details Shikei Kijun
2011
Kyusaku Tsushima
Details Ninja Kids!!!
2011
Character TBA
Details A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011
wet guy
Details Postcard
2010
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
Details Cast Me If You Can
2010
Homeless guy
Details The Lightning Tree
2010
Kakunoshi Enokido
Details Sakurada Gate Incident
2010
Magojiro Kaneko
Details Elevator to the Gallows
2010
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Details Villain
2010
Yoshio Ishibashi
Details Hutch the Honeybee
2010
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Details A Crowd of Three
2010
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Details A Lone Scalpel
2010
Matsuo Okawa
Details Haru's Journey
2010
Michio Nakai
Details After the Flowers
2010
Soan Nagai
Details Golden Slumber
2010
Hodogaya Yasushi
Details Yona Yona Penguin
2009
Jii (voice)
Details Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009
Shotaro
Details April Bride
2009
Teishi Nagashima
Details Rain Fall
2009
Tatsu Ishikura
Details Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009
Itsuro Usui
Details Teacher and Three Children
2008
Yoshio Ichikawa
Details Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008
Counselor
Details The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
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Details The Taste of Fish
2008
Shojiro Sanada
Details All Around Us
2008
kunimasa Yasuda
Details The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008
Journalist
Details The Chasing World
2008
Doctor
Details The Shadow Spirit
2007
mimasaka koushirou
Details Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007
Haeo
Details Three for the Road
2007
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Details The Go Master
2007
Kensaku Segoe
Details Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
Details Starfish Hotel
2007
Mr. Trickster
Details The Happiness
2006
Character TBA
Details The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Character TBA
Details Japan Sinks
2006
Character TBA
Details It's Only Talk
2006
Character TBA
Details Memories of Matsuko
2006
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
Details Scrap Heaven
2005
Detective Yabuta
Details The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
Seigo Tsuda
Details The Great Yokai War
2005
Character TBA
Details For the coming day
2005
Character TBA
Details Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
Grandfather
Details Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
Yunosuke Otsuka
Details Moon and Cherry
2004
Sakamoto
Details The Motive
2004
Yoshifumi Katakura
Details River of First Love
2004
Hidejiro Tasaki
Details Drugstore Girl
2004
Koji Nabeshima
Details Zebraman
2004
Kitahara the Crab Man
Details Winning Pass
2004
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Details The Lakeside Murder Case
2004
Tomoharu Fujima
Details The Hunter and the Hunted
2004
Neko
Details Worst by Chance
2003
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Details Farewell, Kuro
2003
Shuzo Hanazono
Details Samurai Resurrection
2003
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Details Teacher's suitcase
2003
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
Details Barber's Sorrow
2002
Character TBA
Details 11’09”01—September 11
2002
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Details Kaza-hana
2001
Hot Spring Inn Owner
Details The City of Lost Souls
2000
Kuwata
Details The Whispered City
2000
Artist
Details Another Heaven
2000
Doctor Akagi
Details Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999
Tatsuo
Details The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
Matashichi
Details Round About Midnight
1999
Totsuka
Details Legend of the Cat Monster
1998
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Details Love Letter
1998
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Details Body and Soul
1997
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Details The Eel
1997
Tamotsu Takasaki
Details The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Character TBA
Details Shall We Dance?
1996
Detective Miwa
Details Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
Major Akira Yuki
Details I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
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Details When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
(voice)
Details Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Character TBA
Details Manhattan Kiss
1992
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Details Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992
Professor Tokichi Anayama
Details A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
Kogoro Katsura
Details Dance till Tomorrow
1991
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Details The Last Frankenstein
1991
Prof. Sarusawa
Details Goodbye Mama
1991
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Details Betrayal tomorrow
1990
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Details Maria's Stomach
1990
Character TBA
Details Roar of the Crowd
1990
Character TBA
Details Universal Laws
1990
Character TBA
Details Fancy Dance
1989
Masoho's boss
Details Beijing Watermelon
1989
Mr. Teramoto
Details Battle Heater
1989
Riichi Hama
Details Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Hyoma Sakaguchi
Details Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989
Maeo
Details The Silk Road
1988
Character TBA
Details The Yen Family
1988
Shinichi Amemiya
Details Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988
Yakuza
Details The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
Character TBA
Details The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Character TBA
Details Bedtime Eyes
1987
Character TBA
Details A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Matsuda
Details Congratulatory Speech
1985
Yasuhei Higashida
Details The Second Is a Christian
1985
Kumashiro
Details I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985
Hirofumi Maruyama
Details Capone Cries a Lot
1985
Ushiemon
Details Double Bed
1983
Tôru Yamazaki
Details The Man from Shimizu
1982
Character TBA
Details Suspicion
1982
Shigekazu Akitani
Details Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Kondo
Details Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
Detective Kuroki
Details Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Character TBA
Details Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979
Kantarô Iwata
Details Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Character TBA
Details Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
Daigorô Hatayama
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