Akira Emoto

Akira Emoto
Akira Emoto
Born	3 November 1948 (age 76); Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974–present
Spouse	Kazue Tsunogae (m. 1981; died 2018)
Children	Tasuku Emoto ; Tokio Emoto
Relatives	Sakura Ando (daughter-in-law)

Akira Emoto (柄本明, Emoto Akira, born 3 November 1948) is a Japanese actor.^[1]

Career

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.^[2]

Personal life

His wife is the actress Kazue Tsunogae, and he is the father of the actors Tasuku Emoto and Tokio Emoto.^[3]

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1980	Disciples of Hippocrates	Katō
1981	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Kuroki
1982	Dotonbori River	Ishizuka
	Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san	Kondō
	Suspicion	Shigekazu Akitani
1983	Amagi Goe
1984	Kesho	Kikuo Tsutano
1984	Location	Konno
1985	Capone Cries a Lot	Ushiemon
	Ikite mitai mō ichido: Shinjuku Basu Hōka Jiken	Hirofumi Maruyama
	Nidaime wa Christian	Detective Kumashiro
1986	Final Take	Director Saeki
1987	Bedtime Eyes	Ooguro
1987	The Heartbreak Yakuza	Shoji Kato
1988	Angel Guts: Red Vertigo	Yakuza
	Kimurake no Hitobito	Shinichi Amemiya
	The Silk Road
1989	Tora-San Goes to Vienna	Heiba Sakaguchi
1990	Uchū no hōsoku	Nagayama
1991	Bakumatsu Junjoden	Katsura Kogorō
1992	Sumo Do, Sumo Don't	Professor Tokichi Anayama
1993	Ahiru no Uta ga Kikoete kuru yo	Ryosuke Kaji
1994	Natsu no niwa	Nagatomo
1994	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	Major Akira Yuki
1995	Maborosi	Yoshihiro
1996	Shall We Dance?	Toru Miwa
1996	Tsuribaka Nisshi 8	Yukawa
1997	The Eel	Tamotsu Takasaki
1998	Dr. Akagi	Dr. Fuu Akagi	Lead role
1999	Kaizokuban Bootleg Film	Tatsuo
2000	Another Heaven
2000	The City of Lost Souls	Kuwata
2001	Turn	Matsubara
	Waterboys	Mama-san
	Onmyoji	Fujiwara no Motokata
2002	KT	Hiroshi Uchiyama
2002	11'09"01 September 11		segment "Japan"
2003	Owl
2003	Makai Tensho
	Zatōichi	Tavern Owner Pops
	Drugstore Girl	Nabeshima
2004	Zebraman	Kani-Otoko
2004	Lakeside Murder Case	Tomoharu Fujima
2005	Tetsujin 28: The Movie
	The Great Yokai War	Screaming Farmer
	Scrap Heaven	Detective Yabuta
2006	Japan Sinks	Prof. Fukuhara
	Memories of Matsuko	Kozo Kawajiri
	The Go Master	Kensaku Segoe	Chinese film
2007	Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Doctor
2007	Mōryō no Hako	Koshiro Mimasaka
2008	All Around Us
	Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime	Shojiro Sanada
	Ishiuchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko: Hana wa chiredomo	Yoshio Ichikawa
	Ikigami	Counselor
	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	Itsuro Usui
	Ichi	Takeshi Hyoue
	Happy Flight	Etsuko's father
	The Chasing World	Doctor
2009	Rain Fall	Tatsu Ishikura
	John Rabe	General Iwane Matsui	German-Chinese-French film
	April Bride	Teishi Nagashima
2010	Villain
	Raiou	Kakunoshi Enokido
	Postcard	Ykichi Morikawa
	Haru's Journey
	The Lone Scalpel
2011	Antoki no Inochi
	Isoroku	Mitsumasa Yonai
	Karate-Robo Zaborgar	Dr. Akunomiya
	In His Chart
2012	Gyakuten Saiban	The Judge
2013	Unforgiven	Kingo Baba
2014	0.5 mm
2015	The Big Bee
2015	Journey to the Shore
2016	Shippu Rondo
	Shin Godzilla	The Chief Cabinet Secretary
	Black Widow Business
2017	Survival Family	Shigeomi Sasaki
	Nariyuki na Tamashii
	Mukoku	Seppō Mitsumura
	Lu Over the Wall	Kai's grandfather (voice)
2018	Evil and the Mask	Detective Aida
	Recall	Nomura
	Color Me True	Tadashi Honda
	Shoplifters
	Oz Land	Miyagawa
2019	The Promised Land	Gorō Fujiki
	Iwane: Sword of Serenity
	Show Me the Way to the Station
	They Say Nothing Stays the Same		Lead role
2020	Nōten Paradise
	Family Bond
	Stardust Over the Town
	I Never Shot Anyone
	The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File			^[4]
	Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
	Living in the Sky
	Independence of Japan	Jōji Matsumoto		^[5]
	Underdog			^[6]
2021	The Master Plan			^[7]
	Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai	Marujū Tenshu		^[8]
	Utsusemi no Mori
	The Great Yokai War: Guardians	Old man		^[9]
	Inori			^[10]
2022	A Man	Norio Omiura		^[11]
	Noise	Shōkichi Yokota		^[12]
	Wandering			^[13]
	No Place to Go	Homeless		^[14]
	The Setting Sun	Dr. Miyake		^[15]
2023	Yudo: The Way of the Bath	Hermit		^[16]
	Umami	The Salaryman	Japanese-French film
	Shylock's Children	Hajime Sawazaki		^[17]
	Egoist	Yoshio Saito		^[18]
	Do Unto Others			^[19]
	September 1923			^[20]
	Ripples	Tarō Kadokura		^[21]
	Hard Days			^[22]
	Ai no Komuragaeri	Hiroshi Saionji		^[23]
	The Innocent Game	Nagura		^[24]
2024	Don't Lose Your Head!	Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu		^[25]
	Samurai Detective Onihei: Blood for Blood			^[26]
	Maru			^[27]
	God of Curling			^[28]
2025	Muromachi Outsiders	Master Karasaki		^[29]
TBA	Rental Family			^[30]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1991	Taiheiki	Kō no Moronao	Taiga drama
1995	Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune	Tokugawa Munenao	Taiga drama
1999	Genroku Ryōran	Shindō Genshirō	Taiga drama
2006	Kōmyō ga Tsuji	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Taiga drama	^[31]
2009–11	Saka no Ue no Kumo	Nogi Maresuke
2012–17	Folktales from Japan	Narrator
2013	The Partner	Ōkuma Shigenobu	TV movie
2017	A Life	Toranosuke Danjō
	Frankenstein's Love	Toshifumi Tsurumaru
	Silver and Gold	Hitoshi Kuramae
2018	Segodon	Ryu Samin	Taiga drama
2018	Good Doctor	Akira Shiga
2019	Castle of Sand	Chiyokichi	TV movie
2020	Hanzawa Naoki	Keiji Minobe	Season 2
2021	Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses	Chōsuke	Miniseries	^[32]
2022	Teen Regime	Prime Minister Tsuguaki Washida	Miniseries	^[33]
2022	Lost Man Found	Himself		^[34]

Japanese dub

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2024	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman	The owner		^[35]

Honours

Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011)
Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2019)

References

^ "Akira Emoto". www.bollywoodlife.com. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
^ "柄本時生は入来茉里と結婚。俳優一家・柄本家の"血筋が強すぎる"伝説". MSN. Microsoft News. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^ "ドクター・デスの遺産 BLACK FILE". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
^ "浅野忠信＆宮沢りえが白洲次郎、正子夫妻小林薫が吉田茂に「日本独立」12月18日公開". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
^ "『アンダードッグ』石崎ひゅーいの主題歌入り本予告、水川あさみ＆瀧内公美らも登場". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
^ "岩田剛典と新田真剣佑の仲睦まじい様子やシリアスな表情『名も無き世界のエンドロール』特報公開". Real Sound. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
^ "燃えよ剣". eiga.com. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
^ "北村一輝＆松嶋菜々子＆柄本明『妖怪大戦争』人間キャスト発表". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
^ "祈り幻に長崎を想う刻(とき)". eiga.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
^ "妻夫木聡×安藤サクラ×窪田正孝ら共演、芥川賞作家・平野啓一郎の「ある男」実写映画化". Oricon. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ "ノイズ". eiga.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ "趣里＆三浦貴大＆柄本明ら出演『流浪の月』第4弾キャスト解禁". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^ "夜明けまでバス停で". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
^ "鳩のごとく蛇のごとく斜陽". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
^ "生田斗真主演、映画『湯道』"銭湯"に吉田鋼太郎、夏木マリ、柄本明ら大集合". Oricon. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ "阿部サダヲが映画「シャイロックの子供たち」で主演、共演に上戸彩や玉森裕太". Natalie. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^ "エゴイスト". eiga.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
^ "ロストケア". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
^ "福田村事件". eiga.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ "波紋". eiga.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
^ "最後まで行く". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
^ "愛のこむらがえり". eiga.com. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
^ "法廷遊戯". eiga.com. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ "身代わり忠臣蔵". eiga.com. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
^ ""新たな鬼平" 第一弾「鬼平犯科帳本所・桜屋敷」が遂に完成！松本幸四郎、市川染五郎、松平健が登場！". Kyodo News PR Wire. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
^ "まる". eiga.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
^ "本田望結主演、世界大会を目指す女子高生たちの奮闘と友情を描く『カーリングの神様』11・8公開". Oricon. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
^ "映画『室町無頼』2025年1月公開へ "蓮田兵衛"大泉洋、長尾謙杜ら率いて立ち上がる【あらすじ&役どころあり】". Oricon. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (18 March 2024). "'Shōgun's Takehiro Hira And Akira Emoto Join Brendan Fraser's 'Rental Family' At Searchlight". Deadline. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
^ "「大河ドラマ」の歴代"秀吉"". NHK. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ "オダギリジョー脚本・演出のドラマ「オリバーな犬」NHKで放送、主演は池松壮亮". Natalie. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "神尾楓珠主演のNHKドラマ『17才の帝国』追加キャストに柄本明、松本まりから". Oricon. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ "仲野太賀主演『拾われた男』、井川遥、松尾諭、柄本明ら全員"本人役"で出演". Crank-in!. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "「めくらやなぎと眠る女」日本語版に磯村勇斗・玄理ら12名の俳優が参加、演出は深田晃司". Natalie. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

External links

Akira Emoto at IMDb
Akira Emoto at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[1] "Akira Emoto". www.bollywoodlife.com. Retrieved 2 October 2023.

[2] 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.

[3] "柄本時生は入来茉里と結婚。俳優一家・柄本家の"血筋が強すぎる"伝説". MSN. Microsoft News. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

[4] "ドクター・デスの遺産 BLACK FILE". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 December 2020.

[5] "浅野忠信＆宮沢りえが白洲次郎、正子夫妻小林薫が吉田茂に「日本独立」12月18日公開". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.

[6] "『アンダードッグ』石崎ひゅーいの主題歌入り本予告、水川あさみ＆瀧内公美らも登場". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

[7] "岩田剛典と新田真剣佑の仲睦まじい様子やシリアスな表情『名も無き世界のエンドロール』特報公開". Real Sound. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

[8] "燃えよ剣". eiga.com. Retrieved 14 December 2020.

[9] "北村一輝＆松嶋菜々子＆柄本明『妖怪大戦争』人間キャスト発表". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 25 March 2021.

[10] "祈り幻に長崎を想う刻(とき)". eiga.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

[11] "妻夫木聡×安藤サクラ×窪田正孝ら共演、芥川賞作家・平野啓一郎の「ある男」実写映画化". Oricon. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

[12] "ノイズ". eiga.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

[13] "趣里＆三浦貴大＆柄本明ら出演『流浪の月』第4弾キャスト解禁". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[14] "夜明けまでバス停で". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 June 2022.

[15] "鳩のごとく蛇のごとく斜陽". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 August 2022.

[16] "生田斗真主演、映画『湯道』"銭湯"に吉田鋼太郎、夏木マリ、柄本明ら大集合". Oricon. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

[17] "阿部サダヲが映画「シャイロックの子供たち」で主演、共演に上戸彩や玉森裕太". Natalie. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

[18] "エゴイスト". eiga.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

[19] "ロストケア". eiga.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.

[20] "福田村事件". eiga.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.

[21] "波紋". eiga.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.

[22] "最後まで行く". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

[23] "愛のこむらがえり". eiga.com. Retrieved 11 February 2023.

[24] "法廷遊戯". eiga.com. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[25] "身代わり忠臣蔵". eiga.com. Retrieved 7 August 2023.

[26] ""新たな鬼平" 第一弾「鬼平犯科帳本所・桜屋敷」が遂に完成！松本幸四郎、市川染五郎、松平健が登場！". Kyodo News PR Wire. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

[27] "まる". eiga.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

[28] "本田望結主演、世界大会を目指す女子高生たちの奮闘と友情を描く『カーリングの神様』11・8公開". Oricon. Retrieved 22 July 2024.

[29] "映画『室町無頼』2025年1月公開へ "蓮田兵衛"大泉洋、長尾謙杜ら率いて立ち上がる【あらすじ&役どころあり】". Oricon. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[30] D'Alessandro, Anthony (18 March 2024). "'Shōgun's Takehiro Hira And Akira Emoto Join Brendan Fraser's 'Rental Family' At Searchlight". Deadline. Retrieved 18 March 2024.

[31] "「大河ドラマ」の歴代"秀吉"". NHK. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[32] "オダギリジョー脚本・演出のドラマ「オリバーな犬」NHKで放送、主演は池松壮亮". Natalie. Retrieved 16 June 2021.

[33] "神尾楓珠主演のNHKドラマ『17才の帝国』追加キャストに柄本明、松本まりから". Oricon. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[34] "仲野太賀主演『拾われた男』、井川遥、松尾諭、柄本明ら全員"本人役"で出演". Crank-in!. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[35] "「めくらやなぎと眠る女」日本語版に磯村勇斗・玄理ら12名の俳優が参加、演出は深田晃司". Natalie. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

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