Emoto Tasuku

Other Name: 柄本佑

Age: 38

Birthday: December 16, 1986

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Male

Emoto Tasuku is a Japanese actor who is from a family of prolific and well-respected character actors. His father is actor Emoto Akira, his mother is actress Tsunogae Kazue, his younger brother is actor Emoto Tokio, and his wife is actress Ando Sakura. He began acting as a young teenager and has since played many supporting roles and starred in a wide range of TV dramas and feature films. He was born in Tokyo and attended Wako High School. His career began in 2001 while he was still a student. That year he auditioned for and won the main role in the film Utsukushī Natsu Kirishima (which premiered in 2003) as protagonist Yasuo Hidaka. The next year he was awarded the 77th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Newcomer and the 13th Japanese Movie Critics Rookie Award for this role. In recent years, he is known for his memorable supporting role in the award-winning 2016 asadora Asa ga Kita and roles in the 2016/2017 films 64 Rokuyon Kohen and Reminiscence (Tsuioku). In 2005, Emoto became a film student at Waseda University Art School. In March 2012, he married actress Ando Sakura, with whom he has one child. He is currently represented by Alpha Agency..