Tasuku Emoto

Tasuku Emoto (柄本 佑, Emoto Tasuku; born December 16, 1986, in Tokyo)^[1] is a Japanese actor represented by Alpha Agency. His father is actor Akira Emoto, his mother is actress Kazue Tsunogae, his brother is actor Tokio Emoto, and his wife is actress Sakura Ando.

Tasuku Emoto
柄本 佑
Emoto at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2023
Born	(1986-12-16) December 16, 1986 (age 38) Tokyo, Japan
Education	Wako High School Waseda University Art School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–present
Agent	Alpha Agency
Known for	Asa ga Kita Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima
Spouse	Sakura Ando ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	1
Parents	Akira Emoto (father) Kazue Tsunogae (mother)
Relatives	Tokio Emoto (brother) Eiji Okuda (father-in-law) Kazu Ando (mother-in-law) Momoko Ando (sister-in-law)
Awards	77th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Newcomer (Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima) 13th Japanese Movie Critics Rookie Award (Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima)
Website	Official profile

Biography

Emoto was born in Tokyo in 1986. In 2001, he was a student at Wako High School.

Later in the year Emoto passed the audition for the film Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima. He debuted in the film as the protagonist Yasuo Hidaka in 2003. This started Emoto's acting career. In 2004 he was awarded the 77th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Newcomer and the 13th Japanese Movie Critics Rookie Award for his role.^[2]

In 2005 Emoto went to the video department at Waseda University Art School. In March 2012 he married actress Sakura Ando.

Filmography

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	R.P.G.
	Yankee Bokō ni Kaeru	Junichi Ohinata
2004	Socrates in Love	Kenryo Nakagawa
	Akai Tsuki
2005	Water Boys 2005 Natsu	Shunichiro Koma
2007	Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	Kohei Yamada
	Fūrin Kazan	Chōkyū	Taiga drama	[3]
	Aoi Hitomi to New Age	Keiichi Zaizen
2008	Shin Kyoto Meikyū Annai season 5		Episode 4
	Tokugawa Ieyasu to Sannin no Onna	Kobayakawa Hideaki	TV movie
	Torihada 3		Episode 1
	Judge: Shima no Saibankan Funtō-ki season 2	Noboru Inamura	Episode 2
	Ochaberi	Yuki Kimura	Episode 9
	Soratobu Tire	Shunichi Kadota
2009	Yakō no Kaidan	Shigeo Hasuda
	Shibatora	Nishijima
	Romes/Kūkō Bōgyo System	Sakurai
2010	GeGeGe no Nyōbō	Shin Sugai	Asadora
2011	Control: Hanzai Shinri Sōsa	Tamotsu Koyanagi	Episode 2
	Tare Yori mo Kimi o Aisu	Goro Sakuma
	The Last Supper	Keita Takamura	TV movie
	Umu to Umareru Sore Kara no Koto	Takeshi Sato	Lead role
	Kyoto Chiken no Onna season 7	Ippei Hatayama	Episode 8
2012	Daichi no Fanfare	Yuto Moriyama
	Run60	Shoji Nakatsuka	Episodes 7 to 9
	Osozaki no Himawari: Boku no Jinsei, Renewal	Hiroki Matsumoto
2013	Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi	Kyutaro Uebayashi
	Stray Dog	Ginji Yagishita
	Tonbi	An-chan	Episode 7
	Haitatsu sa Retai Watashitachi	Gunkan
	Wonda×AKB48 Short Story: Fortune Cookie	Yamashiro
	Kumogiri Nizaemon	Ingakozo Rokunosuke
	Olympic no Minoshirokin	Yamamoto
2014	Iryu: Team Medical Dragon – 4	Shogo Hayakawa
	Wakamono-tachi 2014	Yo Sato
2015	The Emperor's Cook	Tatsuyoshi Yamagami
	Miyakobito no Hisokana Tanoshimi
	Shokubutsu Danshi Veranda Season 2	Keiichi Hanazono
	Here Comes Asa!	Sobee Bizan	Asadora	[4]
2016	Josei Sakka Mysteries: Utsukushiki Mittsu no Uso	Kinoshita	Episode 2	[5]
	Never Let Me Go	Kato	From episode 7	[6]
	Okasina Otoko	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Lead role; TV movie	[7]
2019	Ieyasu, Edo wo Tateru	Shōzaburō Hashimoto		[8]
	Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky	Ryūichi Kurata	Asadora	[9]
	Idaten	Masuno	Taiga drama	[10]
2021	Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange	Riku Watanabe		[11]
2022	Love with a Case	Ruka Kotori		[12]
	Modern Love Tokyo	Keisuke Yamada	Lead role; episode 2	[13]
2024	Dear Radiance	Fujiwara no Michinaga	Taiga drama	[14]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima	Yasuo Hidaka	Lead role
	Gūzen ni mo Saiakuna Shōnen
2004	69	Tatsuo Zokaki
	Hasami Otoko
2005	Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims	Dondon
	Shissō	Shuichi
	Jū Nana-sai no Fūkei: Shōnen wa Nani o Mita ka		Lead role
	Spring Snow
2006	Chekeratcho!!	Yu Honbu
	Yoru no Picnic	Koichiro Takami
	Hatsukoi	Takeshi
	Kowai Ona: Hagane	Mikio Sekiguchi	Lead role
	Boy Meets Pusan	Kurihara	Lead role
	Chanko	Joji Makimura
2007	Lemon no Koro	Tomizo Sasaki
	Shikyū no Kioku: Koko ni Anata ga Iru	Masato
	Freesia	Ichiro Yamada
	Hannin ni Tsugu	Muranishi
2008	Gummy Chocolate Pine	Kazutoyo Yamanoue
	Chameleon
	Last Game: Saigo no Sōkei-sen	Akirami Kurokawa
	Heibon Punch
	Flying Rabbits	Takuya Miki
	Namidatsubo	Domoto
2009	Shugo Tenshi	Harvest
	a life	Kawarazaki
	Boat
	Air Doll	Toru
	Bokura wa Aruku, Tada Soredake	Miyuki's former lover
2010	No Longer Human
	Tokyo Jima	Oraga
	Raiou	Shigeji
	Kenta to Jun to Kayo-chan no Kuni	Yosuke
	Wakiyaku Monogatari	Masaru
	GeGeGe no Nyōbō	Genta Sakuma
2011	Tada's Do-It-All House
	We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia.	Shi Shibayama
	Kichijōji no Asahina-kun	Hiroki Fujimura
2012	Rinjō: Gekijō-ban	Susumu Hatano
	The Castle of Crossed Destinies	Sojiro Akimoto / narrator
	We Were There	Atsushi
2013	A Story of Yonosuke	Ozawa
	Kiiroi Zou	Kosoku (voice)
	Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend	Kentaro Uchiyama	Lead role
	A Tale Of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story	Sadanoshin Imai
2014	A Bolt from the Blue
2015	Blood Bead
	Gonin Saga	Keiichi Morisawa
	Piece of Cake	Masaki
2017	Reminiscence	Satoru Kawabata		[15]
2018	Dynamite Graffiti	Akira Suei	Lead role
	And Your Bird Can Sing	I	Lead role
2019	Neko to Jiichan	Kentarō Wakamura
	The Great War of Archimedes	Sub-lieutenant Tanaka		[16]
	Iwane: Sword of Serenity			[17]
	It Feels So Good		Lead role	[18]
2020	Shape of Red			[19]
	I Never Shot Anyone			[20]
	Blue, Painful, Fragile	Wakisaka		[21]
2021	Peaceful Death	Hitoshi Kawada	Lead role	[22]
	Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?	Toshio	Lead role	[23]
	Inu-Oh	Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (voice)		[24]
2022	The Midnight Maiden War			[25]
	Anime Supremacy!	Osamu Yukishiro		[26]
	Riverside Mukolitta	Tsutsumishita		[27]
	No Place to Go	Kengo		[28]
	Re/Member	Yashiro		[29]
2023	Shin Kamen Rider	Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider 2		[30]
	A Spoiling Rain	Izeki		[31]
	Picture of Spring	Shunsuke Tsujimoto		[32]
2025	Yasuko, Songs of Days Past	Employee		[33]

Television animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Erased	Kenya Kobayashi (26 years old)		[34]
2023	Crayon Shin-chan	Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider 2	Episode 1173	[35]

Dubbing

• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (Gedeone)^[36]
• The Wild Robot (Fink)^[37]