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.

Фільмографія

• Convenience Store Kyodai — Umeda Shohei
• 2026Kyoto Hippocrates
• 2026The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
• 無垢なる証人 — Hiroki Oyagi
• 2025One Last Throw — Kawato Kozo
• 2025Samurai Fury
• Scandal Eve — Shigeru Kodama
• 2025The Boy and the Dog — Yaichi Katano
• 2025The Final Piece — Motoji Kanesaki
• 2025The Way of The Prison Guard
• 2025Сім'я напрокат — Kikuo Hasegawa
• 2024Don't Lose Your Head! — Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
• JK to Roppozensho — 桜木倫太郎
• 2024Maru — Teacher
• Shinjuku Field Hospital — Keisuke Takamine
• 2024The God of Curling — Susumu Komiyama
• 2023Do Unto Others — Shosaku Shiba
• 2023Egoist — Yoshio Saito
• Get Ready! — Hiroshi Bojo
• 2023Goal of the Sky
• 2023Hard Days — Yutaka Senba
• 2023Ripples — Taro Kadokura
• 2023September 1923 — Teiji Igusa
• 2023Shylock's Children — Hajime Sawazaki
• 2023The Innocent Game
• 2023Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn- — Fujiwara no Michinaga
• 2023Yudo — regular customer
• 2023Умамі — Salaryman
• 満天のゴール — トクじい
• 2022A Man — Norio Komiura
• 2022Barber Shop with a View of the Sea — 老店主
• Goodbye My Dear — Hiroshi Yamawaki
• Japanese Style — Hifuji Umekoshi
• 2022No Place to Go — Bomber
• 2022Noise — Shoji
• Teen Regime — Washida Tsuguaki
• Ten Count to the Future — Kenzo Ashiya
• The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors — Yotaro Befunokami
• 2022The Setting Sun — Dr. Miyake
• 2022The Wandering Moon — Agata
• 混声の森
• 2021Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai — Shop Owner
• Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses — Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
• 2021Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
• Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later — Kawabata
• 2021The Great Yokai War: Guardians — old man, Old Man
• 2021The Master Plan — Kawabata
• 2021Utsusemi no mori — Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
• てにあまる
• 2021祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
• 2020I Never Shot Anyone — Takashi Renjo
• 2020Living in the Sky — Concierge Kondo
• 2020Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
• 2020Stardust over the Town — Kumabe Rokuzo
• 2020Underdog: Part One — Sakuro
• 2020Underdog: Part Two — Sakuro
• 2020Wonderful Paradise — Homeless
• 2019BON-UTA, A Song from Home — (voice)
• Banjo no Himawari
• 2019Castle of Sand — Chiyokichi
• 2019Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
• 2019Godot of the Emotos
• In Hand
• 2019It Feels So Good — Kenji's Father (voice)
• 2019Iwane: Sword of Serenity — Urakusai
• 2019Show Me the Way to the Station
• 2019The Promised Land — Goro Fujiki
• 2019They Say Nothing Stays the Same — Toichi
• Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation — 铃本茂树
• 2018Color Me True — Tadashi Honda
• 2018Evil and The Mask — Detective Aida
• Good Doctor — Akira Shiga
• 2018Oz Land — Boss
• 2018Recall — Seiji Nomura
• Segodon — Ryu Samin
• 2018Крамничні злодюжки — Yoritsugu Kawado
• A Life: A Love — Danjo Toranosuke
• Frankenstein's Love — Tsurumaru
• Home Sweet Tokyo — [Ramen Shop Owner]
• 2017Lu Over the Wall — Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
• 2017Mukoku — Seppo Mitsumura
• 2017Neko Ninja — Kariyazaki
• 2017Random Lives — Hanamura
• Silver and Gold — Hitoshi Kuramae
• 2017Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
• 2017Survival Family — Sasaki Shigeomi
• 2017The Dog Bridegroom — Kenkichi Okumura
• 2016A Grain of Wheat — Honda
• 2016A Living Promise — Zenzo Takeda
• Arashi no Namida
• 2016Black Widow Business — Jun Sakurada
• Love That Makes You Cry — Masahiko Hayashida
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit — Sfar
• 2016Shin Gojira — Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
• 2016Shippu Rondo — Masaomi Togo
• 2016Sniper — Tatsuyuki Miyata
• 2016The Mohican Comes Home — Osamu Tamura
• 2015GARO: Gold Storm Flight — Priest Soutatsu
• 2015Journey to the Shore — Hoshitani
• 2015Living Rights
• 2015Present for You
• 2015The Big Bee — Murofushi
• 2015The Pearls of the Stone Man — Kumaji Ueda
• The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
• 2015Vampire in Love — Sojiro
• 新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
• 20140.5 mm — Takeshi Sasaki
• 2014A House on a Hill — Yoshitarō Terashima
• A Woman from Ashio
• 2014Cold — Jin Ichinose
• 2014Oh! Father — Hayashi Tomita
• 2014Sleeping Forest — Daisuke Ota
• The Long Goodbye — Heizo Harada
• 2014Time Trip App — Ryuzo Yanagita
• 2014Wood Job! — Toshiro Yamane
• 2013Ask This of Rikyu
• 2013Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark — Lawyer
• Black Kite — Kaiun
• 2013Fly, Dakota, Fly!
• Hanzawa Naoki — Keiji Minobe
• Kumokiri Nizaemon
• Olympic Ransom
• 2013The Partner — Ōkuma Shigenobu
• 2013The War and a Woman — client of woman
• 2013Unforgiven — Kingo Baba
• 2013Yellow Elephant — Arechi
• 2012A Sower of Seeds — Shuzo Morikawa
• 2012Ace Attorney — Saibancho (Judge)
• 2012Casting Blossoms to the Sky — Seijiro Nose
• Folktales from Japan
• 2012Humanoid Monster, Bem — Kao no nai otoko
• 2012One Day in January
• Platinum Town
• 2012The Life of Budori Gusuko — Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
• 疑惑
• 2011A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip — wet guy
• HUNTER - Women After Reward Money — Shogo Ooiwa
• Humanoid Monster Bem — Nameless Man
• 2011In His Chart — Doctor
• 2011Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet — Yoneuchi
• 2011Karate-Robo Zaborgar — Dr. Akunomiya
• 2011Life Back Then — Masashi Inoue
• 2011Ninja Kids!!!
• 2011Shikei Kijun — Kyusaku Tsushima
• 2010A Crowd of Three
• 2010A Lone Scalpel — Matsuo Okawa
• Absolute Zero — Sosuke Kagami
• 2010After the Flowers — Soan Nagai
• 2010Cast Me If You Can — Homeless guy
• 2010Ekeb of Dekye — Soichi Yanagimachi
• 2010Golden Slumber — Hodogaya Yasushi
• 2010Haru's Journey — Michio Nakai
• 2010Heaven's Story — Souichi
• 2010Hutch the Honeybee
• Mori no Asagao — Keizukuri Hukahori
• Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
• 2010Postcard — Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
• 2010Sakurada Gate Incident — Magojiro Kaneko
• 2010The Lightning Tree — Kakunoshi Enokido
• 2010Villain — Yoshio Ishibashi
• 2009April Bride — Teishi Nagashima
• 2009Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky — Itsuro Usui
• 2009Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha — Shotaro
• Clouds Over the Hill — 乃木知幸介
• 2009John Rabe — Matsui Iwane
• 2009Rain Fall — Tatsu Ishikura
• 2009Yona Yona Penguin — Jii (voice)
• 2008All Around Us — kunimasa Yasuda
• 2008Happy Flight — Saito
• 2008ICHI
• 2008Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit — Counselor
• 2008Teacher and Three Children — Yoshio Ichikawa
• 2008The Chasing World — Doctor
• 2008The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
• 2008The Most Beautiful Night In The World — Journalist
• 2008The Taste of Fish — Shojiro Sanada
• Ties of Shooting Stars — Togami Masayuki
• 2008Your Friend
• 2007Life Can Be So Wonderful — Haeo
• 2007Prodigy — Hisashi Kikuna
• 2007Starfish Hotel — Mr. Trickster
• 2007The Go Master — Kensaku Segoe
• 2007The Shadow Spirit — mimasaka koushirou
• 2007Three for the Road
• 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad — Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
• 愛の流刑地 — 北冈耕造
• 2006It's Only Talk
• 2006Japan Sinks — Professor Fukuhara
• Love and Glory — Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• 2006Memories of Matsuko — Tsunehiro Kawajiri
• 2006The Happiness
• 2006The Summer of Stickleback
• Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
• 2005For the coming day
• Haru and Natsu — Kotaro Nakayama
• 2005Love Is Five Seven Five — Grandfather
• 2005Scrap Heaven — Detective Yabuta
• 2005Tetsujin 28: The Movie — Yunosuke Otsuka
• 2005The Lakeside Murder Case — Tomoharu Fujima
• 2005The Suspect: Muroi Shinji — Seigo Tsuda
• 2005Велика війна гоблінів
• 2004Chicken Is Barefoot
• 2004Drugstore Girl — Koji Nabeshima
• 2004Moon & Cherry — Sakamoto
• 2004River of First Love — Hidejiro Tasaki
• 2004The Hunter and the Hunted — Neko
• 2004The Motive — Yoshifumi Katakura
• 2004Winning Pass
• 2004Zebraman — Kitahara the Crab Man
• 竜馬がゆく
• 2003Doppelgänger — Murakami
• 2003Farewell, Kuro — Shuzo Hanazono
• 2003Hana — Hiroshi Torigoe
• Love & War of a Samurai
• 2003Owl
• 2003Samurai Resurrection — Nobutsuna Matsudaira
• 2003Teacher's suitcase — Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
• Water Boys — Mama (of a bar)
• 2003Worst by Chance — Shigeharu Kaneshiro
• 2003Затоічі — Pub Owner
• AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo — Hyoue Yarikura
• 2002Barber's Sorrow — Sakaguchi
• 2002KT — Hiroshi Uchiyama
• Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
• 2002September 11 — Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
• The Private Detective Mike
• 2001Kaza-hana — Hot Spring Inn Owner
• Prince Shotoku — Anahobe no miko
• 2001Turn — Matsubara
• 2001Waterboys — Mama
• 2000Another Heaven — Doctor Akagi
• 2000As the River Flows
• 2000Nagisa — Priest Shinto
• 2000The City of Lost Souls — Kuwata
• 2000The Whispered City — Toyohashi, sculptor
• Genroku Ryoran — Genshiro
• 1999Kaizokuban Bootleg Film — Tatsuo
• Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
• 1999Round About Midnight — Totsuka
• 1999The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe — Matashichi
• 1999Will to Live — Doctor
• 1998Dr. Akagi — Dr. Fuu Akagi
• 1998Love Letter
• Yanchakure — 水嶋钦一
• 1997Abduction — Chief Superintendent Tachibana
• 1997Body and Soul — Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
• 1997The Eel — Tamotsu Takasaki
• 1997The Key — Soichiro Anzai
• 1996Free and Easy 8 — Yukawa
• 1996Shall We Dance? — Detective Miwa
• 1996The Rainbow Seeker
• Eighth Shogun Yoshimune — Tokugawa Munenao
• 1995Maborosi — Yoshihiro
• 1994Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla — Major Akira Yuki
• 1994The Friends — Nagatomo
• Family Court Judge — Shibuya Naomasa
• 1993I Can Hear the Duck Singing
• 1993Private Lessons II — Oba
• 1993Sky Cannot Be This Blue — Director
• 1993When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang — Narrator (voice)
• 1992Manhattan Kiss
• 1992Sumo Do, Sumo Don't — Professor Tokichi Anayama
• 1992Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
• 1991A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era — Kogoro Katsura
• 1991Dance till Tomorrow
• 1991Goodbye Mama
• Taiheiki — Moronao Kô-no
• 1991The Last Frankenstein — Prof. Sarusawa
• 1990Betrayal Tomorrow
• 1990Maria's Stomach
• 1990Roar of the Crowd
• 1990Universal Laws
• ホットドッグ — 大田原輝
• 1989Battle Heater — Riichi Hama
• 1989Beijing Watermelon — Mr. Teramoto
• 1989Fancy Dance — Masoho's boss
• 1989Harimao — Army Major
• 1989Mottomo Abunai Deka — Maeo
• 1989Tora-san Goes to Vienna — 坂口兵马
• 1988Angel Guts: Red Vertigo — Yakuza
• 1988Revolver — Keisuke Mineya
• 1988The Silk Road
• 1988The Yen Family — Shinichi Amemiya
• 1988あじさい色のレディ
• あそびにおいでョ!
• 1987A Tale of Young Elopement — Matsuda
• 1987Bedtime Eyes
• 1987The Great Department Store Robbery
• 1987The Heartbreak Yakuza
• 1986Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
• 1985Capone Cries a Lot — Ushiemon
• 1985Congratulatory Speech — Yasuhei Higashida
• 1985I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident — Hirofumi Maruyama
• 1985The Second Is a Christian — Kumashiro
• 1984Location — Konno
• 1984Make-Up — Kikuo Tsutano
• 水曜ドラマスペシャル
• 1983Amagi Pass
• 1983Double Bed — Tôru Yamazaki
• 1983Legend of the Cat Monster — Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
• 1982Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san — 近藤
• 1982Lovers Lost — Ishizuka
• 1982Suspicion — Shigekazu Akitani
• 1982The Man from Shimizu
• 1981Sailor Suit and Machine Gun — Detective Kuroki
• 1980Disciples of Hippocrates
• 1979Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again — Daigorô Hatayama
• 1979Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman — Kantarô Iwata
• 1979Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (3)

• 2026Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder - — Self
• Lost Man Found — Himself
• 2004Takada Wataru Teki — Self