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.
244 movies · 67 shows
Kyoto Hippocrates
2026·8.0
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026·3.0
One Last Throw
2025·7.0
Rental Family
2025·7.7
The Final Piece
2025·9.4
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025·8.0
The Boy and the Dog
2025·7.1
Samurai Fury
2025·8.0
The God of Curling
2024·0.0
Maru
2024·6.0
Rotting
2024·0.0
Don't Lose Your Head!
2024·6.5
The Innocent Game
2023·5.3
September 1923
2023·6.5
Goal of the Sky
2023·0.0
Ripples
2023·6.5
Hard Days
2023·6.6
Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-
2023·5.0
Do Unto Others
2023·7.5
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023·7.1
Shylock's Children
2023·7.4
Egoist
2023·7.0
Umami
2023·5.8
A Man
2022·7.1
The Setting Sun
2022·6.0
No Place to Go
2022·6.0
The Wandering Moon
2022·6.6
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
2022·0.0
Noise
2022·5.9
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021·0.0
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021·6.7
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021·0.0
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021·6.2
Utsusemi no mori
2021·0.0
The Master Plan
2021·7.7
Underdog: Part One
2020·7.2
Underdog: Part Two
2020·7.0
Wonderful Paradise
2020·6.7
Living in the Sky
2020·7.7
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020·2.5
I Never Shot Anyone
2020·7.0
Stardust over the Town
2020·6.0
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019·0.0
The Promised Land
2019·6.0
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019·6.5
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019·6.8
It Feels So Good
2019·6.6
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019·7.8
Godot of the Emotos
2019·0.0
Castle of Sand
2019·8.7
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019·7.2
Oz Land
2018·7.4
Recall
2018·6.8
Shoplifters
2018·7.8
Color Me True
2018·7.5
Evil and The Mask
2018·7.2
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017·10.0
Mukoku
2017·6.8
Neko Ninja
2017·4.5
Lu Over the Wall
2017·7.0
The Dog Bridegroom
2017·0.0
Survival Family
2017·7.3
Random Lives
2017·0.0
Shippu Rondo
2016·6.0
Sniper
2016·0.0
Black Widow Business
2016·8.5
A Grain of Wheat
2016·0.0
Shin Godzilla
2016·7.2
The Mohican Comes Home
2016·5.8
A Living Promise
2016·0.0
Journey to the Shore
2015·6.6
The Big Bee
2015·5.7
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015·8.3
Vampire in Love
2015·6.9
GARO: Gold Storm Flight
2015·7.4
Living Rights
2015·0.0
Present for You
2015·0.0
A House on a Hill
2014·0.0
0.5 mm
2014·7.4
Cold
2014·0.0
Time Trip App
2014·6.0
Oh! Father
2014·5.5
Wood Job!
2014·7.4
Sleeping Forest
2014·7.1
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013·0.0
The Partner
2013·0.0
Unforgiven
2013·7.0
Ask This of Rikyu
2013·7.3
The War and a Woman
2013·4.2
Yellow Elephant
2013·6.2
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013·0.0
Humanoid Monster, Bem
2012·6.2
One Day in January
2012·8.0
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012·6.6
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012·6.9
A Sower of Seeds
2012·0.0
Ace Attorney
2012·6.1
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011·6.3
Life Back Then
2011·4.4
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
2011·5.9
Shikei Kijun
2011·0.0
In His Chart
2011·4.9
Ninja Kids!!!
2011·5.9
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
2011·8.5
Postcard
2010·5.8
Cast Me If You Can
2010·7.5
The Lightning Tree
2010·7.0
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010·7.4
Ekeb of Dekye
2010·6.6
Heaven's Story
2010·6.6
Villain
2010·6.8
Hutch the Honeybee
2010·5.0
A Crowd of Three
2010·4.9
A Lone Scalpel
2010·6.5
Haru's Journey
2010·6.5
After the Flowers
2010·7.3
Golden Slumber
2010·7.1
Yona Yona Penguin
2009·5.3
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2009·0.0
April Bride
2009·6.8
Rain Fall
2009·4.7
John Rabe
2009·7.0
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009·8.8
Happy Flight
2008·6.4
ICHI
2008·6.7
Teacher and Three Children
2008·6.0
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
2008·6.6
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008·0.0
Your Friend
2008·5.1
The Taste of Fish
2008·7.0
All Around Us
2008·7.4
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
2008·5.6
The Chasing World
2008·5.7
The Shadow Spirit
2007·5.3
Prodigy
2007·7.4
Life Can Be So Wonderful
2007·7.0
Three for the Road
2007·3.0
The Go Master
2007·6.5
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007·6.9
Starfish Hotel
2007·6.2
The Happiness
2006·0.0
The Summer of Stickleback
2006·0.0
Japan Sinks
2006·5.7
It's Only Talk
2006·6.3
Memories of Matsuko
2006·7.8
Scrap Heaven
2005·7.6
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005·6.4
The Great Yokai War
2005·6.3
For the coming day
2005·0.0
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005·7.5
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005·6.3
The Lakeside Murder Case
2005·6.5
Moon & Cherry
2004·6.0
The Motive
2004·6.9
River of First Love
2004·6.8
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004·7.2
Takada Wataru Teki
2004·0.0
Drugstore Girl
2004·5.2
Zebraman
2004·6.3
Winning Pass
2004·0.0
The Hunter and the Hunted
2004·10.0
Hana
2003·0.0
Doppelgänger
2003·7.0
Worst by Chance
2003·9.0
Zatoichi
2003·7.2
Farewell, Kuro
2003·7.2
Samurai Resurrection
2003·4.9
Teacher's suitcase
2003·7.0
Owl
2003·6.4
Barber's Sorrow
2002·8.0
September 11
2002·6.4
KT
2002·6.7
Turn
2001·6.8
Waterboys
2001·6.6
Kaza-hana
2001·5.6
The City of Lost Souls
2000·6.2
The Whispered City
2000·9.0
Nagisa
2000·7.0
Another Heaven
2000·6.0
As the River Flows
2000·9.0
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
1999·6.1
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999·9.0
Round About Midnight
1999·7.0
Will to Live
1999·6.4
Love Letter
1998·8.0
Dr. Akagi
1998·6.4
Body and Soul
1997·3.0
The Key
1997·5.0
Abduction
1997·8.5
The Eel
1997·6.9
The Rainbow Seeker
1996·7.0
Free and Easy 8
1996·7.3
Shall We Dance?
1996·7.5
Maborosi
1995·7.5
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994·6.7
The Friends
1994·7.1
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993·9.0
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993·6.7
Private Lessons II
1993·3.5
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992·6.0
Manhattan Kiss
1992·0.0
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992·6.8
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991·7.5
Dance till Tomorrow
1991·10.0
The Last Frankenstein
1991·5.8
Goodbye Mama
1991·9.0
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990·0.0
Maria's Stomach
1990·10.0
Roar of the Crowd
1990·10.0
Universal Laws
1990·9.0
Fancy Dance
1989·6.9
Beijing Watermelon
1989·6.6
Battle Heater
1989·7.5
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989·8.7
Harimao
1989·8.0
Mottomo Abunai Deka
1989·8.5
あじさい色のレディ
1988·0.0
Revolver
1988·7.3
The Silk Road
1988·6.5
The Yen Family
1988·6.2
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988·5.9
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987·9.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987·5.0
Bedtime Eyes
1987·4.7
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987·9.0
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986·6.6
Congratulatory Speech
1985·7.0
The Second Is a Christian
1985·6.0
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1985·3.7
Capone Cries a Lot
1985·6.0
Location
1984·8.5
Make-Up
1984·10.0
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983·5.0
Double Bed
1983·5.1
Amagi Pass
1983·6.5
The Man from Shimizu
1982·0.0
Suspicion
1982·7.0
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982·8.0
Lovers Lost
1982·6.5
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981·7.1
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980·6.8
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979·8.0
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979·0.0
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979·6.1