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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.

Shin Godzilla ( 2016) | IMDb: 6.8

Action , Horror , Science fiction

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Starring:

Hiroki Hasegawa , Yutaka Takenouchi , Satomi Ishihara , Kengo Kora , Satoru Matsuo , Mikako Ichikawa

Directed by:

Linto Ueda , Yū Inose , Kimiyoshi Adachi

Produced by:

Masaya Shibusawa , Asuka Minami , Yoshihiro Satô

Karate-Robo Zaborgar ( 2011) | IMDb: 6.3

Action , Science fiction

An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.

Starring:

Yasuhisa Furuhara , Itsuji Itao , Naoto Takenaka , Mami Yamasaki , Hiroyuki Watanabe , Akira Emoto

Directed by:

Noboru Iguchi

Produced by:

Shin'ichi Ikeda , Yoshinori Chiba

Rain Fall ( 2009) | IMDb: 4.6

Action , Adventure , Thriller

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.

Starring:

Kippei Shiina , Gary Oldman , Misa Shimizu , Dirk Hunter , Akira Emoto , Shigemitsu Ogi

Directed by:

Max Mannix

Produced by:

John Rabe ( 2009) | IMDb: 7.2

Drama , History , War

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Starring:

Ulrich Tukur , Dagmar Manzel , Steve Buscemi , Daniel Brühl , Zhang Jingchu , Teruyuki Kagawa

Directed by:

Lanny Dong , Andi Lang , Amit Kumar

Produced by:

Kazuo Shimizu , April YeFang , Andreas Schumann

The Great Yokai War ( 2005) | IMDb: 6.4

Action , Comedy , Fantasy

A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.

Starring:

Ryunosuke Kamiki , Hiroyuki Miyasako , Kaho Minami , Riko Narumi , Shirō Sano , Miyuki Miyabe

Directed by:

Takashi Miike

Produced by:

Shigeru Mizuki , Takashi Sasaki , Hiroshi Aramata

Zatoichi ( 2003) | IMDb: 7.5

Action , Adventure , Drama

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Starring:

Takeshi Kitano , Tadanobu Asano , Michiyo Yasuda , Yui Natsukawa , Guadalcanal Taka , Daigorô Tachibana

Directed by:

Takeshi Kitano

Produced by:

Tsunehisa Saitô , Takio Yoshida , Masayuki Mori

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla ( 1994) | IMDb: 5.8

Action , Adventure , Science fiction

A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King of the Monsters.

Starring:

Megumi Odaka , Jun Hashizume , Zenkichi Yoneyama , Akira Emoto , Towako Yoshikawa , Yôsuke Saitô

Directed by:

Kunio Miyoshi , Kensho Yamashita

Produced by:

Shinichiro Arimasa , Shogo Tomiyama , Ritsuko Suzuki

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