Actor | Producer
Old good 'Emo-chan' of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoy...
Noise
... 2022
The Lightning Tree
... 2010
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.
The Cake Eaters
... 2007
Match Point
... 2005
Love, Wedding, Marriage
... 2011
First Love
... 2004
Lost in Translation
... 2003
Stree 2
... 2024
Naked Killer
... 1992
The Escort
... 2015
Godmothered
... 2020