Old good Emochan of modern Japanese cinema Emos father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days His mothers 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 Torasan
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