Highest rated movie: Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Lowest rated movie: Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
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Looking for reviews of Akira Emoto movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,608 reviews across 28 movies.
Movies starring Akira Emoto have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Memories of Matsuko - released in 2006 - is Akira Emoto's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 135 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Akira Emoto is Ninja Kids!!! - released in 2011 - with a score of 48% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Akira Emoto has acted in films with Yoji Tanaka, Naoto Takenaka, Ren Osugi and Tadanobu Asano.
Akira Emoto has worked with these film directors: Takashi Miike, Shinobu Yaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Kaneto Shindō.
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