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.
2002 • TV
2012 • TV
2010 • TV
2013 • TV
1985 • Movie
2013 • Movie
as Hirofumi Maruyama
as Lawyer
as Tatsu Ishikura
as Pub Owner
as Doctor
as Hodogaya Yasushi
as Ishizuka
as Tamotsu Takasaki
as Yoshio Ishibashi
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
as Counselor
as Saibancho (Judge)
as Teishi Nagashima
as Yoshifumi Katakura
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Director
as Hyoue Yarikura
9 episodes
346 episodes
as Sosuke Kagami
11 episodes
3 episodes
as Ryu Samin
2 episodes
1 episodes
as Sfar
9 episodes
as Togami Masayuki
10 episodes
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
49 episodes
as Genshiro
49 episodes
as Keisuke Takamine
11 episodes
as Hiroshi Bojo
1 episodes
as Akira Shiga
10 episodes
as Himself
10 episodes
as Masahiko Hayashida
10 episodes
as 水嶋钦一
150 episodes
as Kenzo Ashiya
9 episodes
as Mama (of a bar)
11 episodes
as Hitoshi Kuramae
4 episodes
as Heizo Harada
5 episodes
