This has been a busy year for Tasuku Emoto. Long accustomed to appearing in colorful supporting roles, the 31-year-old actor has found himself starring in three films in 2018.
After playing real-life porn entrepreneur Akira Suei in "Dynamite Graffiti" and the slacker protagonist of "And Your Bird Can Sing," this month he can be seen as two different characters in the Japanese-Portuguese co-production "Lovers on Borders."
"It felt like shooting two separate films at the same time," he says, speaking to The Japan Times during the Tokyo International Film Festival. In the movie, written and directed by Atsushi Funahashi, Emoto plays a Japanese servant brought to Portugal after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and a corporate executive overseeing factory layoffs in a near-future Japan.