Akira Emoto
Birthday: 1948-11-03
Birthplace: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
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Rental Family | ||
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2025-03-20 | Shonen to Inu | |
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2025-01-17 | Muromachi Burai | |
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2024-10-18 | Maru | |
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2024-02-09 | Migawari Mission | Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu |
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2023-11-10 | The Innocent Game | |
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2023-09-01 | September 1923 | Teiji Igusa |
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2023-07-15 | Goal of the Sky | |
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2023-05-26 | Ripples | Taro Kadokura |
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2023-05-19 | Hard Days | Yutaka Senba |
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2023-03-31 | Touken Ranbu 2 | |
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2023-03-24 | Do Unto Others | Shosaku Shiba |
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2023-02-23 | Yudo: The Way of the Bath | regular customer |
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2023-02-17 | Shylock's Children | Hajime Sawazaki |
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2023-02-10 | Egoist | Yoshio Saito |
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2023-02-09 | Umami | Salaryman |
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2022-11-18 | A Man | Norio Komiura |
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2022-11-04 | The Setting Sun | Dr. Miyake |
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2022-10-08 | No Place to Go | |
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2022-05-13 | Wandering | Agata |
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2022-05-09 | 海の見える理髪店 | 老店主 |
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2022-01-27 | Noise | Shoji |
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2021-11-17 | Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun | |
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2021-10-15 | Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai | Shop Owner |
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2021-08-20 | 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻― | |
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2021-07-01 | The Great Yokai War: Guardians | old man |
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2021-02-05 | 空蝉の森 | Police Inspector kariya shinichi |
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2021-01-29 | The End of the Tiny World | Kawabata |
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2020-11-27 | Underdog: Part One | Sakuro |
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2020-11-20 | Wonderful Paradise | Homeless |
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2020-10-23 | Living in the Sky | Concierge Kondo |
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2020-07-11 | Nosari: Impermanent Eternity | |
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2020-07-03 | I Never Shot Anyone | Takashi Renjo |
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2020-03-06 | Stardust Over The Town | Kumabe Rokuzo |
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2019-10-18 | The Promised Land | Goro Fujiki |
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2019-10-18 | Show Me the Way to the Station | |
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2019-09-13 | They Say Nothing Stays the Same | Toichi |
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2019-08-23 | It Feels So Good | Kenji's Father (voice) |
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2019-05-17 | Iwane: Sword of Serenity | Urakusai |
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2019-04-20 | Godot of the Emotos | |
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2019-03-28 | Castle of Sand | Chiyokichi |
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2019-02-15 | BON-UTA, A Song from Home | (voice) |
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2018-10-26 | Oz Land | Boss |
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2018-06-15 | Recall | Seiji Nomura |
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2018-06-02 | Shoplifters | Yoritsugu Kawado |
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2018-02-10 | Color Me True | Tadashi Honda |
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2018-01-13 | Evil and The Mask | Detective Aida |
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2017-12-31 | Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~ | |
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2017-06-03 | Mukoku | Seppo Mitsumura |
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2017-05-20 | Neko Ninja | Kariyazaki |
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2017-05-19 | Lu Over the Wall | Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice) |
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2017-05-13 | The Dog Bridegroom | Kenkichi Okumura |
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2017-01-28 | Random Lives | Hanamura |
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2016-12-12 | Survival Family | Sasaki Shigeomi |
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2016-11-26 | Shippu Rondo | Masaomi Togo |
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2016-10-02 | Sniper | Tatsuyuki Miyata |
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2016-08-27 | Black Widow Business | Jun Sakurada |
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2016-08-26 | A Grain of Wheat | Honda |
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2016-07-29 | Shin Godzilla | Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary |
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2016-04-09 | The Mohican Comes Home | Osamu Tamura |
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2016-01-09 | A Living Promise | Zenzo Takeda |
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2015-09-30 | Journey to the Shore | Mr. Hoshitani |
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2015-09-12 | The Big Bee | Murofushi |
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2015-06-20 | The Pearls of the Stone Man | Kumaji Ueda |
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2015-04-17 | Vampire in Love | Sojiro |
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2015-03-28 | GARO -Gold Storm- Sho | Priest Soutatsu |
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2015-03-07 | Living Rights | |
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2014-12-06 | A House on a Hill | Yoshitarō Terashima |
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2014-11-08 | 0.5 mm | Takeshi Sasaki |
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2014-09-27 | Cold | Jin Ichinose |
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2014-07-26 | Time Trip App | Ryuzo Yanagita |
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2014-05-24 | Oh! Father | Hayashi Tomita |
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2014-05-10 | Wood Job! | Toshiro Yamane |
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2014-01-18 | A Woman from Ashio | |
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2014-01-02 | Sleeping Forest | Daisuke Ota |
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2013-10-05 | Fly, Dakota, Fly! | |
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2013-10-04 | Present for You | |
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2013-09-13 | Unforgiven | Kingo Baba |
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2013-04-27 | The War and a Woman | client of woman |
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2013-02-02 | Yellow Elephant | Arechi |
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2013-01-01 | Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark | |
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2012-12-15 | Humanoid Monster, Bem | Kao no nai otoko |
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2012-11-17 | One Day in January | |
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2012-05-12 | Casting Blossoms to the Sky | Seijiro Nose |
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2012-03-03 | A Sower of Seeds | Shuzo Morikawa |
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2012-02-11 | Ace Attorney | Saibancho (Judge) |
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2011-12-23 | Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Yoneuchi |
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2011-11-19 | Life Back Then | Masashi Inoue |
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2011-10-15 | Karate-Robo Zaborgar | Dr. Akunomiya |
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2011-09-25 | Shikei Kijun | Kyusaku Tsushima |
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2011-08-27 | In His Chart | Doctor |
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2011-07-23 | Ninja Kids!!! | |
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2011-05-14 | A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip | wet guy |
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2010-10-27 | Postcard | Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law |
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2010-10-23 | Cast Me If You Can | Homeless guy |
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2010-10-22 | The Lightning Tree | Kakunoshi Enokido |
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2010-10-16 | Sakurada Gate Incident | Magojiro Kaneko |
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2010-10-09 | Elevator to the Gallows | |
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2010-10-02 | Heaven's Story | Souichi |
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2010-09-11 | Villain | Yoshio Ishibashi |
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2010-07-28 | Hutch the Honeybee | |
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2010-06-12 | A Crowd of Three | |
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2010-06-05 | A Lone Scalpel | Matsuo Okawa |
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2010-05-22 | Haru's Journey | Michio Nakai |
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2010-03-13 | After the Flowers | Soan Nagai |
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2010-01-30 | Golden Slumber | Hodogaya Yasushi |
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2009-12-23 | Yona Yona Penguin | Jii (voice) |
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2009-08-22 | Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha | Shotaro |
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2009-05-09 | April Bride | Teishi Nagashima |
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2009-04-24 | Rain Fall | Tatsu Ishikura |
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2009-04-02 | John Rabe | Matsui Iwane |
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2009-02-07 | Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky | Itsuro Usui |
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2008-11-15 | Happy Flight | Saito |
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2008-10-25 | ICHI | |
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2008-09-27 | Teacher and Three Children | Yoshio Ichikawa |
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2008-09-26 | Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit | Counselor |
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2008-09-06 | The Cycling Genius Is Coming! | |
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2008-06-07 | The Taste of Fish | Shojiro Sanada |
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2008-06-07 | All Around Us | kunimasa Yasuda |
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2008-05-24 | The Most Beautiful Night In The World | Journalist |
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2008-02-22 | The Chasing World | Doctor |
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2007-12-21 | The Shadow Spirit | mimasaka koushirou |
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2007-09-20 | Prodigy | Hisashi Kikuna |
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2007-09-15 | Life Can Be So Wonderful | Haeo |
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2007-07-11 | Three for the Road | |
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2007-05-24 | The Go Master | Kensaku Segoe |
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2007-04-14 | Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad | Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic |
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2007-02-03 | Starfish Hotel | Mr. Trickster |
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2006-11-23 | The Happiness | |
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2006-10-14 | The Summer of Stickleback | |
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2006-07-15 | Japan Sinks | |
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2006-06-10 | It's Only Talk | |
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2006-05-27 | Memories of Matsuko | Tsunehiro Kawajiri |
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2005-10-08 | Scrap Heaven | Detective Yabuta |
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2005-08-27 | The Suspect: Muroi Shinji | Seigo Tsuda |
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2005-08-06 | The Great Yokai War | |
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2005-05-06 | For the coming day | |
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2005-03-26 | Love Is Five Seven Five | Grandfather |
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2005-03-19 | Tetsujin 28: The Movie | Yunosuke Otsuka |
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2004-12-25 | Moon and Cherry | Sakamoto |
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2004-12-18 | The Motive | Yoshifumi Katakura |
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2004-11-13 | River of First Love | Hidejiro Tasaki |
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2004-02-07 | Drugstore Girl | Koji Nabeshima |
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2004-01-30 | Zebraman | Kitahara the Crab Man |
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2004-01-24 | Winning Pass | |
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2004-01-22 | The Lakeside Murder Case | Tomoharu Fujima |
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2004-01-17 | The Hunter and the Hunted | Neko |
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2003-11-01 | Hana | Hiroshi Torigoe |
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2003-09-27 | Doppelganger | Murakami |
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2003-09-13 | Worst by Chance | Shigeharu Kaneshiro |
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2003-09-06 | Zatoichi | Pub Owner |
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2003-07-01 | Farewell, Kuro | Shuzo Hanazono |
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2003-03-11 | Teacher's suitcase | Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna |
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2003-02-07 | Owl | |
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2002-11-09 | Barber's Sorrow | |
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2002-09-04 | 11’09”01—September 11 | Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan") |
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2002-05-03 | KT | Hiroshi Uchiyama |
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2001-10-13 | Turn | Matsubara |
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2001-09-15 | Waterboys | Mama |
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2001-01-27 | Kaza-hana | Hot Spring Inn Owner |
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2000-09-15 | The City of Lost Souls | Kuwata |
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2000-07-07 | The Whispered City | Artist |
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2000-06-10 | Nagisa | Priest |
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2000-04-29 | Another Heaven | Doctor Akagi |
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1999-12-01 | Kaizokuban Bootleg Film | Tatsuo |
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1999-11-07 | The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe | Matashichi |
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1999-11-06 | Round About Midnight | Totsuka |
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1999-01-15 | Will to Live | Doctor |
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1998-08-16 | Legend of the Cat Monster | Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura |
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1998-05-23 | Love Letter | |
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1998-05-17 | Dr. Akagi | Dr. Fuu Akagi |
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1997-10-18 | Body and Soul | |
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1997-10-18 | The Key | Soichiro Anzai |
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1997-06-07 | Abduction | |
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1997-05-12 | The Eel | Tamotsu Takasaki |
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1996-12-28 | The Rainbow Seeker | |
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1996-08-10 | Free and Easy 8 | Yukawa |
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1996-01-27 | Shall We Dance? | Detective Miwa |
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1995-10-01 | Maborosi | Yoshihiro |
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1994-12-10 | Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla | Major Akira Yuki |
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1994-04-09 | The Friends | Nagatomo |
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1993-09-11 | I Can Hear the Duck Singing | |
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1993-09-01 | When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang | (voice) |
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1993-03-06 | Private Lessons II | Oba |
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1992-12-19 | Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 | |
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1992-06-13 | Manhattan Kiss | |
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1992-01-15 | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't | Professor Tokichi Anayama |
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1991-07-06 | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Kogoro Katsura |
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1991-06-22 | Dance till Tomorrow | |
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1991-04-20 | The Last Frankenstein | Prof. Sarusawa |
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1991-04-20 | Goodbye Mama | |
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1990-09-14 | Betrayal tomorrow | |
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1990-07-21 | Maria's Stomach | |
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1990-06-09 | Roar of the Crowd | |
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1990-01-27 | Universal Laws | |
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1989-12-23 | Fancy Dance | Masoho's boss |
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1989-11-18 | Beijing Watermelon | Mr. Teramoto |
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1989-11-03 | Battle Heater | Riichi Hama |
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1989-08-05 | Tora-san Goes to Vienna | Hyoma Sakaguchi |
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1989-06-03 | Harimao | Army Major |
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1989-04-22 | Mottomo Abunai Deka | Maeo |
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1988-10-22 | Revolver | Keisuke Mineya |
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1988-06-25 | The Silk Road | |
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1988-05-14 | The Yen Family | Shinichi Amemiya |
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1988-05-07 | Angel Guts: Red Vertigo | Yakuza |
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1987-12-26 | The Great Department Store Robbery | |
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1987-09-12 | The Heartbreak Yakuza | |
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1987-04-25 | Bedtime Eyes | |
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1987-02-07 | A Tale of Young Elopement | Matsuda |
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1985-12-28 | Congratulatory Speech | Yasuhei Higashida |
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1985-09-14 | The Second Is a Christian | Kumashiro |
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1985-03-02 | I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident | Hirofumi Maruyama |
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1985-02-16 | Capone Cries a Lot | Ushiemon |
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1984-09-22 | Location | Konno |
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1984-05-02 | Make-Up | Kikuo Tsutano |
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1983-08-05 | Double Bed | Tôru Yamazaki |
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1982-12-28 | The Man from Shimizu | |
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1982-09-11 | Suspicion | Shigekazu Akitani |
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1982-08-07 | Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san | Kondo |
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1982-06-12 | Lovers Lost | Ishizuka |
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1981-12-19 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun | Detective Kuroki |
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1980-11-21 | Disciples of Hippocrates | |
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1979-10-06 | Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman | Kantarô Iwata |
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1979-06-23 | Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie | |
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1979-03-31 | Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again | Daigorô Hatayama |