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.
as Umeda Shohei(10 eps)
as Hiroki Oyagi(1 ep)
as Kawato Kozo
as Kikuo Hasegawa
as Shigeru Kodama(6 eps)
as Motoji Kanesaki
as Yaichi Katano
as Susumu Komiyama
as Teacher
as Keisuke Takamine(11 eps)
as 桜木倫太郎(8 eps)
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
as トクじい(2 eps)
as Teiji Igusa
as Taro Kadokura
as Yutaka Senba
as Fujiwara no Michinaga
as Shosaku Shiba
as regular customer
as Hajime Sawazaki
as Yoshio Saito
as Salaryman
as Hiroshi Bojo(1 ep)
as Norio Komiura
as Dr. Miyake
as Hifuji Umekoshi(9 eps)
as Bomber
as Hiroshi Yamawaki(1 ep)
as Yotaro Befunokami(10 eps)
as Himself(10 eps)
as Agata
as Washida Tsuguaki(5 eps)
as Kenzo Ashiya(9 eps)
as Shoji
as Shop Owner
as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)(6 eps)
as old man
as Old Man
as Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi
as Kawabata
as Kawabata(3 eps)
as Sakuro
as Sakuro
as Homeless
as Concierge Kondo
as Takashi Renjo
as Kumabe Rokuzo
as Goro Fujiki
as Toichi
as Kenji's Father (voice)
as Urakusai
as 铃本茂树(6 eps)
as Chiyokichi
as (voice)
as Boss
as Akira Shiga(10 eps)
as Seiji Nomura
as Yoritsugu Kawado
as Tadashi Honda
as Detective Aida
as Ryu Samin(2 eps)
as [Ramen Shop Owner](1 ep)
as Seppo Mitsumura
as Kariyazaki
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
as Kenkichi Okumura
as Tsurumaru(10 eps)
as Sasaki Shigeomi
as Hanamura
as Danjo Toranosuke(10 eps)
as Hitoshi Kuramae(4 eps)
as Masaomi Togo
as Tatsuyuki Miyata
as Jun Sakurada
as Honda
as Ryuta Azuma
as Osamu Tamura
as Sfar(9 eps)
as Masahiko Hayashida(10 eps)
as Zenzo Takeda
as Hoshitani
as Murofushi
as Kumaji Ueda
as Sojiro
as Priest Soutatsu
as Yoshitarō Terashima
as Takeshi Sasaki
as Jin Ichinose
as Ryuzo Yanagita
as Hayashi Tomita
as Toshiro Yamane
as Heizo Harada(5 eps)
as Daisuke Ota
as Ōkuma Shigenobu
as Kingo Baba
as Keiji Minobe(10 eps)
as client of woman
as Arechi
as Kaiun(10 eps)
as Lawyer
as Kao no nai otoko
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
as Seijiro Nose
as Shuzo Morikawa
as Saibancho (Judge)
as Masashi Inoue
as Nameless Man(10 eps)
as Dr. Akunomiya
as Shogo Ooiwa(10 eps)
as Kyusaku Tsushima
as Doctor
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
as Homeless guy
as Kakunoshi Enokido
as Keizukuri Hukahori(10 eps)
as Magojiro Kaneko
as Soichi Yanagimachi
as Souichi
as Yoshio Ishibashi
as Matsuo Okawa
as Michio Nakai
as Sosuke Kagami(11 eps)
as Soan Nagai
as Hodogaya Yasushi
as Jii (voice)
as 乃木知幸介(9 eps)
as Shotaro
as Teishi Nagashima
as Tatsu Ishikura
as Matsui Iwane
as Itsuro Usui
as Saito
as Togami Masayuki(10 eps)
as Yoshio Ichikawa
as Counselor
as Shojiro Sanada
as kunimasa Yasuda
as Journalist
as Doctor
as mimasaka koushirou
as Hisashi Kikuna
as Haeo
as Kensaku Segoe
as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
as 北冈耕造(2 eps)
as Mr. Trickster
as Professor Fukuhara
as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi(49 eps)
as Detective Yabuta
as Kotaro Nakayama(5 eps)
as Seigo Tsuda
as Grandfather
as Yunosuke Otsuka
as Tomoharu Fujima
as Sakamoto
as Yoshifumi Katakura
as Hidejiro Tasaki
as Self
as Koji Nabeshima
as Kitahara the Crab Man
as Neko
as Hiroshi Torigoe
as Murakami
as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
as Pub Owner
as Shuzo Hanazono
as Mama (of a bar)(11 eps)
as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
as Sakaguchi
as Hyoue Yarikura(9 eps)
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
as Hiroshi Uchiyama
as Anahobe no miko(2 eps)
as Matsubara
as Mama
as Hot Spring Inn Owner
as Kuwata
as Toyohashi, sculptor
as Priest Shinto
as Doctor Akagi
as Tatsuo
as Totsuka
as Doctor
as Genshiro(49 eps)
as 水嶋钦一(150 eps)
as Dr. Fuu Akagi
as Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex
as Soichiro Anzai
as Chief Superintendent Tachibana
as Tamotsu Takasaki
as Yukawa
as Detective Miwa
as Zenzo Tajima(20 eps)
as Yoshihiro
as Tokugawa Munenao(48 eps)
as Major Akira Yuki
as Nagatomo
as Narrator (voice)
as Oba
as Shibuya Naomasa(12 eps)
as Professor Tokichi Anayama
as Kogoro Katsura
as Prof. Sarusawa
as Moronao Kô-no(49 eps)
as 大田原輝(1 ep)
as Masoho's boss
as Mr. Teramoto
as Riichi Hama
as 坂口兵马
as Army Major
as Maeo
as Keisuke Mineya
as Shinichi Amemiya
as Yakuza
as Matsuda
as Yasuhei Higashida
as Kumashiro
as Hirofumi Maruyama
as Ushiemon
as Konno
as Kikuo Tsutano
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
as Tôru Yamazaki
as Shigekazu Akitani
as Ishizuka
as Detective Kuroki
as Kantarô Iwata
as Daigorô Hatayama