
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.

Zatoichi
2003 · as Pub Owner

Shin Godzilla
2016 · as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary

Rental Family
2025 · as Kikuo Hasegawa

Shoplifters
2018 · as Yoritsugu Kawado

Bedtime Eyes
1987

It Feels So Good
2019 · as Kenji's Father (voice)

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994 · as Major Akira Yuki

ICHI
2008

Worst by Chance
2003 · as Shigeharu Kaneshiro

Samurai Fury
2025

Nagisa
2000 · as Priest Shinto

Shall We Dance?
1996 · as Detective Miwa

Memories of Matsuko
2006 · as Tsunehiro Kawajiri

Japan Sinks
2006 · as Professor Fukuhara

Lu Over the Wall
2017 · as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)

Maborosi
1995 · as Yoshihiro

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988 · as Yakuza

Survival Family
2017 · as Sasaki Shigeomi