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.
Movies
Zatoichi
Pub Owner
The Eel
Tamotsu Takasaki
Turn
Matsubara
Rain Fall
Tatsu Ishikura
The City of Lost Souls
Kuwata
Villain
Yoshio Ishibashi
Sakurada Gate Incident
Magojiro Kaneko
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Tatsuo
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Seigo Tsuda
Worst by Chance
Shigeharu Kaneshiro
Golden Slumber
Hodogaya Yasushi
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Major Akira Yuki
Dr. Akagi
Dr. Fuu Akagi
Maborosi
Yoshihiro
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Counselor
The Chasing World
Doctor
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Professor Tokichi Anayama
Starfish Hotel
Mr. Trickster
April Bride
Teishi Nagashima
Ace Attorney
Saibancho (Judge)
In His Chart
Doctor
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Dr. Akunomiya
Haru's Journey
Michio Nakai
Unforgiven
Kingo Baba
The Motive
Yoshifumi Katakura
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Yoneuchi
The Friends
Nagatomo
Lovers Lost
Ishizuka
The Lightning Tree
Kakunoshi Enokido
Cast Me If You Can
Homeless guy
Yellow Elephant
Arechi
The War and a Woman
client of woman
Private Lessons II
Oba
The Shadow Spirit
mimasaka koushirou
The Taste of Fish
Shojiro Sanada
Owl
KT
Hiroshi Uchiyama
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Journalist
Will to Live
Doctor
0.5 mm
Takeshi Sasaki
John Rabe
Matsui Iwane
Wood Job!
Toshiro Yamane
Life Back Then
Masashi Inoue
Oh! Father
Hayashi Tomita
Postcard
Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
Farewell, Kuro
Shuzo Hanazono
Barber's Sorrow
The Last Frankenstein
Prof. Sarusawa
The Happiness
Present for You
After the Flowers
Soan Nagai
The Go Master
Kensaku Segoe
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
Ninja Kids!!!
It's Only Talk
Beijing Watermelon
Mr. Teramoto
Abduction
Life Can Be So Wonderful
Haeo
Cold
Jin Ichinose
The Rainbow Seeker
Japan Sinks
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
All Around Us
kunimasa Yasuda
Humanoid Monster, Bem
Kao no nai otoko
Time Trip App
Ryuzo Yanagita
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Itsuro Usui
A Lone Scalpel
Matsuo Okawa
Scrap Heaven
Detective Yabuta
Nagisa
The Summer of Stickleback
Heaven's Story
Souichi
Fancy Dance
Masoho's boss
Journey to the Shore
Mr. Hoshitani
Vampire in Love
Sojiro
Round About Midnight
Totsuka
Sleeping Forest
Daisuke Ota
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
Priest Soutatsu
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Yakuza
Capone Cries a Lot
Ushiemon
River of First Love
Hidejiro Tasaki
The Whispered City
Artist
The Big Bee
Murofushi
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Detective Kuroki
The Mohican Comes Home
Osamu Tamura
Memories of Matsuko
Tsunehiro Kawajiri
Drugstore Girl
Koji Nabeshima
The Lakeside Murder Case
Tomoharu Fujima
Maria's Stomach
The Second Is a Christian
Kumashiro
Doppelganger
Murakami
Battle Heater
Riichi Hama
Mukoku
Seppo Mitsumura
Black Widow Business
Jun Sakurada
Shin Godzilla
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Hyoma Sakaguchi
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Kondo
A House on a Hill
Yoshitarō Terashima
The Yen Family
Shinichi Amemiya
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Kumaji Ueda
Shippu Rondo
Masaomi Togo
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
wet guy
Dance till Tomorrow
Lu Over the Wall
Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
Kaza-hana
Hot Spring Inn Owner
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Moon and Cherry
Sakamoto
Location
Konno
Waterboys
Mama
A Living Promise
Zenzo Takeda
Random Lives
Hanamura
Revolver
Keisuke Mineya
Suspicion
Shigekazu Akitani
Color Me True
Tadashi Honda
Teacher and Three Children
Yoshio Ichikawa
Double Bed
Tôru Yamazaki
Free and Easy 8
Yukawa
A Grain of Wheat
Honda
The Hunter and the Hunted
Neko
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Maeo
Another Heaven
Doctor Akagi
Evil and The Mask
Detective Aida
Shoplifters
Yoritsugu Kawado
Shikei Kijun
Kyusaku Tsushima
Neko Ninja
Kariyazaki
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Hutch the Honeybee
Recall
Seiji Nomura
Love Is Five Seven Five
Grandfather
Bedtime Eyes
11'09''01 September 11
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Urakusai
Goodbye Mama
A Tale of Young Elopement
Matsuda
Survival Family
Sasaki Shigeomi
Sniper
Tatsuyuki Miyata
Yona Yona Penguin
Jii (voice)
Castle of Sand
Chiyokichi
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Kantarô Iwata
A Sower of Seeds
Shuzo Morikawa
Oz Land
Boss
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi
The Promised Land
Goro Fujiki
Winning Pass
Body and Soul
Three for the Road
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Seijiro Nose
Universal Laws
The Key
Soichiro Anzai
Show Me the Way to the Station
Disciples of Hippocrates
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Matashichi
Shimoochiai Yakitori Movie
Shall We Dance?
Detective Miwa
Make-Up
Kikuo Tsutano
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Congratulatory Speech
Yasuhei Higashida
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Shop Owner
Legend of the Cat Monster
Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Shotaro
Living in the Sky
Concierge Kondo
Godot of the Emotos
Underdog: Part One
Sakuro
Happy Flight
Saito
Stardust Over The Town
Kumabe Rokuzo
Zebraman
Teacher's suitcase
Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
old man
Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
It Feels So Good
Kenji's father (voice)
The Dog Bridegroom
Kenkichi Okumura
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Yunosuke Otsuka
The End of the Tiny World
Kawabata
I Never Shot Anyone
Takashi Renjo
Wonderful Paradise
Homeless
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Kogoro Katsura
A Man
Norio Komiura
Prodigy
Hisashi Kikuna
Umami
Salaryman
A Crowd of Three
Noise
Shoji
The Great Yokai War
The Life of Budori Gusuko
Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
Living Rights
Betrayal tomorrow
One Day in January
The Silk Road
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Hirofumi Maruyama
For the coming day
Wandering
Agata
A Woman from Ashio
海の見える理髪店
老店主
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: Once More With Feeling
Daigorô Hatayama
Shylock's Children
Hajime Sawazaki
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
regular customer
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
Roar of the Crowd
Ripples
Taro Kadokura
Egoist
Yoshio Saito
The Man from Shimizu
Do Unto Others
Shosaku Shiba
No Place to Go
The Great Department Store Robbery
Hard Days
Yutaka Senba
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
ICHI
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Manhattan Kiss
Manten no Goal
The Setting Sun
Dr. Miyake
September 1923
Teiji Igusa
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
Touken Ranbu 2
Houtei Yugi
Rental Family
Love Letter
Muromachi Burai
Shows
Ties of Shooting Stars
Togami Masayuki
Water Boys
Mama (of a bar)
A Life
Danjo Toranosuke
Love and Glory
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
Haru and Natsu
Kotaro Nakayama
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
Shogo Ooiwa
Love That Makes You Cry
Masahiko Hayashida
Frankenstein's Love
Tsurumaru
Good Doctor
Akira Shiga
Black Kite
Kaiun
Humanoid Monster Bem
Nameless Man
Platinum Town
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
铃本茂树
Hanzawa Naoki
Keiji Minobe
Taiheiki
Moronao Kô-no
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
Tokugawa Munenao
Genroku Ryoran
Genshiro
Banjo no Himawari
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
Kawabata
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
The Private Detective Mike
The Long Goodbye
Heizo Harada
てにあまる
In Hand
Ten Count to the Future
Kenzo Ashiya
Silver and Gold
Hitoshi Kuramae
Absolute Zero
Sosuke Kagami
Teen Regime
Washida Tsuguaki
Folktales from Japan
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Hyoue Yarikura
混声の森
Kumokiri Nizaemon
Yanchakure
水嶋钦一
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
Yotaro Befunokami
Goodbye My Dear
Hiroshi Yamawaki
Japanese Style
Hifuji Umekoshi
Lost Man Found
Himself
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Sfar
Mori no Asagao
Keizukuri Hukahori
Get Ready!
Hiroshi Bojo
Segodon
Ryu Samin
Home Sweet Tokyo
[Ramen Shop Owner]
オリンピックの身代金
Family Court Judge
Shibuya Naomasa
満天のゴール
トクじい
水曜ドラマスペシャル
The Honest Realtor
Tetsuo Kishi
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
Prince Shotoku
Anahobe no miko
竜馬がゆく