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Akira Emoto
Born	November 3, 1948 (1948-11-03) (age 63) Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor

Akira Emoto (柄本明, Emoto Akira^?, born November 3, 1948) is a Japanese actor. 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.^[1]

Partial filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1980	Disciples of Hippocrates	Katō
1981	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Kuroki
1982	Dotonbori River	Ishizuka
	Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san	Kondō
	Suspicion	Shigekazu Akitani
1983	Amagi Goe
1984	Kesho	Kikuo Tsutano
1984	Location	Konno
1985	Capone Cries a Lot	Ushiemon
	Ikite mitai mō ichido: Shinjuku Basu Hōka Jiken	Hirofumi Maruyama
	Nidaime wa Christian	Detective Kumashiro
1986	Final Take	Director Saeki
1987	Bedtime Eyes	Ooguro
1987	The Heartbreak Yakuza	Shoji Kato
1988	Angel Guts: Red Vertigo	Yakuza
	Kimurake no Hitobito	Shinichi Amemiya
	The Silk Road
1989	Tora-San Goes to Vienna	Heiba Sakaguchi
1990	Uchū no hōsoku	Nagayama
1991	Bakumatsu Junjoden	Kogorou Katsura
1992	Sumo Do, Sumo Don't	Professor Tokichi Anayama
1993	Ahiru no Uta ga Kikoete kuru yo	Ryosuke Kaji
1994	Natsu no niwa	Nagatomo
1994	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	Major Akira Yuki
1995	Maborosi	Yoshihiro
1996	Shall We Dance?	Toru Miwa
1996	Tsuribaka Nisshi 8	Yukawa
1997	The Eel	Tamotsu Takasaki
1998	Dr. Akagi	Dr. Fuu Akagi
1999	Kaizokuban Bootleg Film	Tatsuo
2000	Another Heaven
2000	The City of Lost Souls	Kuwata
2001	Turn	Matsubara
	Waterboys	Mama-san
	Onmyoji	Fujiwara no Motokata
2002	KT	Hiroshi Uchiyama
2002	11'09"01 September 11		segment "Japan"
2003	Makai Tensho
	Zatōichi	Tavern Owner Pops
	Drugstore Girl	Nabeshima
2004	Zebraman	Kani-Otoko
2005	Tetsujin 28: The Movie
	The Great Yokai War	Screaming Farmer
	Scrap Heaven
2006	Japan Sinks	Prof. Fukuhara
2006	Memories of Matsuko	Kozo Kawajiri
2007	Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Doctor
	Memories of Matsuko	Kozo Kawajiri
	Mōryō no Hako	Koshiro Mimasaka
2008	All Around Us
	Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime	Shojiro Sanada
	Ishiuchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko: Hana wa chiredomo	Yoshio Ichikawa
	Ikigami	Counselor
	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	Itsuro Usui
	Ichi	Takeshi Hyoue
	Happy Flight	Etsuko's father
	The Chasing World	Doctor
2009	Rain Fall	Tatsu Ishikura
	John Rabe	General Iwane Matsui
	April Bride	Teishi Nagashima
2010	Villain
	Raiou	Kakunoshi Enokido
	Postcard	Ykichi Morikawa
2011	Antoki no Inochi
	Karate-Robo Zaborgar	Dr. Akunomiya
	Kamisama no Karute
2012	Gyakuten Saiban	The Judge

References

^ "報知映画賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1982/. Retrieved 2010-01-23.

External links

Akira Emoto at the Internet Movie Database

Awards

Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Hideji Ōtaki (1976) · Katō Takeshi (1977) · Tsunehiko Watase (1978) · Rentaro Mikuni (1979) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1980) · Katsuo Nakamura (1981) · Akira Emoto (1982) · Jūzō Itami (1983) · Kaku Takashina (1984) · Tomokazu Miura (1985) · Kei Suma (1986) · Masahiko Tsugawa (1987) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1988) · Yoshio Harada (1989) · Renji Ishibashi (1990) · Hiroshi Kanbe (1991) · Takehiro Murata (1992) · Ittoku Kishibe (1993) · Kiichi Nakai (1994) · Etsushi Toyokawa (1995) · Tetsuya Watari (1996) · Masahiko Nishimura (1997) · Ren Osugi (1998) · Kippei Shiina (1999) · Tadanobu Asano (2000) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001) · Ryo Ishibashi (2002) · Hiroyuki Miyasako (2003) · Yoshido Harada (2004) · Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2006) · Shirō Itō (2007) · Masato Sakai (2008) · Eita (2009)

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Ken Takakura (1978) · Ken Ogata (1979) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1980) · Ken Takakura (1981) · Ken Takakura (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Ken Ogata (1984) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1985) · Minoru Chiaki (1986) · Ken Ogata (1987) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1988) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1989) · Rentaro Mikuni (1990) · Ittoku Kishibe (1991) · Rentaro Mikuni (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Rentaro Mikuni (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Kōji Yakusho (1998) · Akira Emoto (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Akira Terao (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2003) · Kiichi Nakai (2004) · Akira Terao (2005) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2006) · Ken Watanabe (2007) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2008) · Masahiro Motoki (2009) · Ken Watanabe (2010)

Yokohama Film Festival Best Supporting Actor

Keizō Kanie (1980) · Morio Kazama (1981) · Renji Ishibashi (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Jūzō Itami (1984) · Kaku Takashina (1985) · Tomokazu Miura (1986) · Kaoru Kobayashi (1987) · Sabu Kawahara (1988) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1989) · Yoshio Harada (1990) · Keizō Kanie (1991) · Koji Matoba (1992) · Hideo Murota (1993) · Masato Hagiwara (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Kazuhiko Kanayama (1996) · Ryo Ishibashi (1997) · Masahiko Nishimura / Isao Bitoh (1998) · Ren Osugi (1999) · Kazuki Kitamura (2000) · Teruyuki Kagawa / Jun Murakami (2001) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002) · Shinya Tsukamoto (2003) · Nao Ōmori (2004) · Akira Emoto (2005) · Ittoku Kishibe (2006) · Takashi Sasano (2007) · Masatoshi Nagase (2008) · Hidetoshi Nishijima (2009) · Yoshinori Okada / Yutaka Matsushige (2010)

Persondata
Name	Emoto Akira
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese actor
Date of birth	November 3, 1948
Place of birth	Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Date of death
Place of death

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