Highest rated as cast or director
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.
Acted in 304
2020s
- 2026
あなたの息子ひき出します！
Movie
Kyoto Hippocrates
Movie
Convenience Store Kyodai
Umeda Shohei · 10 episodes
Innocent Witness
Hiroki Oyagi · 1 episode
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
Movie
- 2025
The Way of The Prison Guard
Movie
- 2024
The God of Curling
Susumu Komiyama
Rotting
Movie
- 2023
満天のゴール
トクじい · 2 episodes
September 1923
Teiji Igusa
Goal of the Sky
Movie
Ripples
Taro Kadokura
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
Fujiwara no Michinaga
- 2022
The Setting Sun
Dr. Miyake
Goodbye My Dear
Hiroshi Yamawaki · 1 episode
混声の森
TV
The Wandering Moon
Agata
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
老店主
Teen Regime
Washida Tsuguaki · 5 episodes
Noise
Shoji
- 2021
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Movie
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ) · 6 episodes
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
Movie
Utsusemi no mori
Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
Kawabata · 3 episodes
てにあまる
TV
- 2020
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Movie
I Never Shot Anyone
Takashi Renjo
2010s
- 2019
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
Movie
Show Me the Way to the Station
Movie
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi
Banjo no Himawari
TV
Castle of Sand
Chiyokichi
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
- 2018
Oz Land
Boss
Color Me True
Tadashi Honda
- 2017
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
Movie
Home Sweet Tokyo
[Ramen Shop Owner] · 1 episode
Random Lives
Hanamura
Silver and Gold
Hitoshi Kuramae · 4 episodes
- 2016
Shippu Rondo
Masaomi Togo
Sniper
Tatsuyuki Miyata
A Grain of Wheat
Honda
The Mohican Comes Home
Osamu Tamura
Arashi no Namida
TV
Love That Makes You Cry
Masahiko Hayashida · 10 episodes
- 2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Kumaji Ueda
Vampire in Love
Sojiro
Living Rights
Movie
Present for You
Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV
- 2014
A House on a Hill
Yoshitarō Terashima
Cold
Jin Ichinose
Time Trip App
Ryuzo Yanagita
Oh! Father
Hayashi Tomita
The Long Goodbye
Heizo Harada · 5 episodes
Sleeping Forest
Daisuke Ota
- 2013
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Movie
The Partner
Ōkuma Shigenobu
The War and a Woman
client of woman
Yellow Elephant
Arechi
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Lawyer
- 2012
One Day in January
Movie
Platinum Town
TV
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Seijiro Nose
- 2011
Humanoid Monster Bem
Nameless Man · 10 episodes
In His Chart
Doctor
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
wet guy
- 2010
Cast Me If You Can
Homeless guy
The Lightning Tree
Kakunoshi Enokido
Mori no Asagao
Keizukuri Hukahori · 10 episodes
Sakurada Gate Incident
Magojiro Kaneko
Ekeb of Dekye
Soichi Yanagimachi
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
TV
Hutch the Honeybee
Movie
A Crowd of Three
Movie
Haru's Journey
Michio Nakai
After the Flowers
Soan Nagai
Golden Slumber
Hodogaya Yasushi
2000s
- 2009
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Shotaro
Rain Fall
Tatsu Ishikura
John Rabe
Matsui Iwane
- 2008
Teacher and Three Children
Yoshio Ichikawa
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
Movie
Your Friend
Movie
The Taste of Fish
Shojiro Sanada
All Around Us
kunimasa Yasuda
The Chasing World
Doctor
- 2007
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Haeo
Three for the Road
Movie
The Go Master
Kensaku Segoe
愛の流刑地
北冈耕造 · 2 episodes
- 2006
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
TV
Love and Glory
Hideyoshi Toyotomi · 49 episodes
- 2005
Scrap Heaven
Detective Yabuta
Haru and Natsu
Kotaro Nakayama · 5 episodes
Love Is Five Seven Five
Grandfather
The Lakeside Murder Case
Tomoharu Fujima
- 2004
Moon & Cherry
Sakamoto
Drugstore Girl
Koji Nabeshima
Winning Pass
Movie
The Hunter and the Hunted
Neko
- 2003
Hana
Hiroshi Torigoe
Doppelgänger
Murakami
Love & War of a Samurai
TV
Farewell, Kuro
Shuzo Hanazono
Samurai Resurrection
Nobutsuna Matsudaira
- 2002
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
TV
Barber's Sorrow
Sakaguchi
- 2001
Prince Shotoku
Anahobe no miko · 2 episodes
Turn
Matsubara
Waterboys
Mama
Gassan
Movie
- 2000
As the River Flows
Movie
1990s
- 1999
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Matashichi
Round About Midnight
Totsuka
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
TV
Genroku Ryoran
Genshiro · 49 episodes
- 1998
Dr. Akagi
Dr. Fuu Akagi
- 1997
Body and Soul
Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
- 1996
- 1995
The Wind Detective - From Tokyo!
Zenzo Tajima · 20 episodes
Maborosi
Yoshihiro
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
Tokugawa Munenao · 48 episodes
- 1994
- 1993
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
Movie
Private Lessons II
Oba
- 1992
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Movie
Manhattan Kiss
Movie
- 1991
The Last Frankenstein
Prof. Sarusawa
Goodbye Mama
Movie
Taiheiki
Moronao Kô-no · 49 episodes
- 1990
Betrayal Tomorrow
Movie
Maria's Stomach
Movie
Roar of the Crowd
Movie
ホットドッグ
大田原輝 · 1 episode
Universal Laws
Movie
1980s
- 1989
Beijing Watermelon
Mr. Teramoto
Battle Heater
Riichi Hama
Harimao
Army Major
- 1988
The Yen Family
Shinichi Amemiya
- 1987
The Great Department Store Robbery
Movie
- 1986
- 1985
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Hirofumi Maruyama
- 1984
Make-Up
Kikuo Tsutano
- 1983
Legend of the Cat Monster
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980
Disciples of Hippocrates
Movie
1970s
- 1979
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Kantarô Iwata
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
Movie
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Daigorô Hatayama
No release date
あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－
TV
Directed 1
1990s
- 1993
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Director
Appearances5
2020s
- 2026
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
Self
- 2022
2000s
- 2004
Takada Wataru Teki
Self
1990s
- 1993
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Narrator (voice)