Akira Emoto — Actor (141)
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The Whispered City (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ざわざわ下北沢
director: Jun Ichikawa actor: Yoshio Harada / Tomoko Kitagawa …
other title: ざわざわ下北沢
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
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Location (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ロケーション
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Toshiyuki Nishida / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: ロケーション
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
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Turn (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ターン
director: Hideyuki Hirayama actor: Riho Makise / Kantarô Nakamura …
other title: ターン
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. When she ventures outside, the city is deserted and she knows something is deeply wrong. Each day repeats; she wakes up at 2:15 in the afternoon. Gradually things start change, the phone rings, and she finds that she is not alone...
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It's Only Talk (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
やわらかい生活
director: Ryuichi Hiroki actor: Shinobu Terajima / Etsushi Toyokawa …
other title: やわらかい生活
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
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Neko Ninja (2017) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
猫忍
director: Takeshi Watanabe actor: Takuro Ohno / Akira Emoto …
other title: Ninja Cat the Movie / 猫忍
Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy samurai. He succeeds, but then a mysterious fat cat starts following him. His distinctive red nose leads Kagerota to believe that the feline stalker is actually the reincarnation of his long last father, a legendary ninja who left him when he was ten years old.
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The Life of Budori Gusuko (2012) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
グスコーブドリの伝記
director: Gisaburō Sugii actor: Shun Oguri / Shioli Kutsuna …
other title: Guskou Budori no Denki / Das Leben des Budori Gusko …
The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Gusukō is forced to leave his home and search for a better life elsewhere. Gusukō joins a group of scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Department, which deals with the same natural disasters that drove Gusukō from his home.
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The Key (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
鍵
director: Toshiharu Ikeda actor: Naomi Kawashima / Akira Emoto …
other title: 鍵
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
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Round About Midnight (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
真夜中まで
director: Makoto Wada actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Michele Reis …
other title: 真夜中まで
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
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Moon & Cherry (2004) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
月とチェリー
director: Yuki Tanada actor: Tasuku Nagaoka / Noriko Eguchi …
other title: 月とチェリー / Moon and Cherry …
When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
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The Last Frankenstein (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ラスト・フランケンシュタイン
director: Takeshi Kawamura actor: Akira Emoto / Yoshio Harada …
other title: ラスト・フランケンシュタイン
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide plague running rampant throughout the city. Dr. Aryo lives in a nearby castle with his wife, whom Dr. Aryo created, and a hunchbacked assistant. Dr. Aryo once worked at the same university with Professor Sarusawa but was fired for his morbid experiments. Now, Dr. Aryo may hold the key to unlocking the origins & cure for the suicide virus which Professor Sarusawa may now have. Meanwhile Professor Sarusawa's daughter Mai can be bring to life Dr. Aryo's stitched up cadavers which Dr. Aryo hopes to create a new race with.
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The Second Is a Christian (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
二代目はクリスチャン
director: Kazuyuki Izutsu actor: Etsuko Shihomi / Akira Emoto …
other title: 二代目はクリスチャン
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
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Disciples of Hippocrates (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ヒポクラテスたち
director: Kazuki Ōmori actor: Masato Furuoya / Ran Ito …
other title: ヒポクラテスたち
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.