Min Tanaka

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Biography

Min Tanaka is a Japanese actor and dancer. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 26th Japan Academy Prize for The Twilight Samurai.

Known For

47 Ronin

Lord Asano

Perfect Days

Homeless

The Outsider

Akihiro

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

Kashiwazaki Nenji

Blade of the Immortal

Kagimura Habaki

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

Kashiwazaki Nenji

Tekkonkinkreet

Suzuki (voice)

The Twilight Samurai

Zenemon Yogo

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Godzilla Minus Zero MOVIE	Kanji Murakami
2026	A Pint of Ink MOVIE	Himself
2026	Sheep in the Box MOVIE	Akio Yamagata
2026	History's Greatest Warriors TV	Self
2025	Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2025	The 19th Medical Chart TV	Noboru Akaike
2025	Kokuho MOVIE	Mangiku Onogawa
2024	Black Ox MOVIE	Self
2024	The Real You MOVIE	Wakamatsu
2024	Who Were We? MOVIE	[Facility director]
2024	House of the Owl TV	Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
2024	Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days MOVIE	Narrator
2023	Perfect Days MOVIE	Homeless
2023	Some Body Comes Into the Light MOVIE	Dancer
2023	Mom, Is That You?! MOVIE	Self
2023	Barakamon TV	Ryuunosuke Yagami
2023	Father of the Milky Way Railroad MOVIE	Miyazawa Kisuke
2022	Amnesiac Love MOVIE	Takashima Yajuro
2022	Ghost Book MOVIE	Self
2022	GAME OF SPY TV	Naoto Kaizaki
2022	The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai MOVIE	Self
2022	The Unnameable Dance MOVIE	Self
2021	HOKUSAI MOVIE	Hokusai Katsushika (old)
2021	A Morning of Farewell MOVIE	Tatsuro Shiraishi
2021	The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood MOVIE	Self
2021	SPECサーガ黎明編『Knockin'on 冷泉's SPEC Door』～絶対預言者冷泉俊明が守りたかった幸福の欠片～ TV	Rōjin
2020	Forgery It's tough being a man TV	Self
2019	Four Women Living in That House MOVIE	山田一郎
2019	The Great War of Archimedes MOVIE	Tadamichi Hirayama
2019	Children of the Sea MOVIE	Jimu (voice)
2019	Ninomiya Kinjirou MOVIE	Self
2019	Svaha: The Sixth Finger MOVIE	Nechoong Tenpa
2018	The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps MOVIE	Tatsuo Harima
2018	Miracles TV	Yoshitaka Aikawa
2018	Modest Heroes MOVIE	Blind Man (voice)
2018	Vision MOVIE	Minamoto
2018	The Outsider MOVIE	Akihiro
2018	The Scythian Lamb MOVIE	Katsumi Ōno
2017	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura MOVIE	Binbogami
2017	Goodbye Newspaper TV	Self
2017	Blade of the Immortal MOVIE	Kagimura Habaki
2017	A Life: A Love TV	Okita Isshin
2016	Haruneko MOVIE	Manager's Father
2016	Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken MOVIE	Self
2016	Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story TV	Oribe Kiyosaku
2016	The Ark in the Mirage MOVIE	Self
2016	Love That Makes You Cry TV	Kenji Soda
2015	Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story MOVIE	Self
2015	The God of Risk TV	Takao Sekiguchi
2015	To Give a Dream TV	President
2015	Mare TV	Okesaku Ganji
2014	Gu Gu the Cat TV	Homeless man
2014	Gu Gu the Cat TV	Akama
2014	Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends MOVIE	Kashiwazaki Nenji
2014	Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno MOVIE	Kashiwazaki Nenji
2013	The Eternal Zero MOVIE	Self
2013	Hajimari mo owari mo nai MOVIE	Self
2013	47 Ronin MOVIE	Lord Asano
2013	The Tale of Iya MOVIE	Grandpa
2013	My Wife is Ninja TV	Seizan
2012	Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man MOVIE	Self
2011	Rebirth MOVIE	Taki
2011	Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu MOVIE	Seigetsu Inoue
2010	Ryōmaden TV	Self
2009	Map of the Sounds of Tokyo MOVIE	Narrator
2009	Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection TV	Narrator (voice)
2009	Heaven's Door MOVIE	Henmi
2007	Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth TV	Yukio Katou
2006	Tekkonkinkreet MOVIE	Suzuki (voice)
2006	Riding the Metro MOVIE	Self
2005	La Maison de Himiko MOVIE	Himiko
2004	The Hidden Blade MOVIE	Kansai Toda
2002	The Twilight Samurai MOVIE	Zenemon Yogo
1993	Mountain Stage MOVIE	Self
1993	Oedipus Rex MOVIE	Dancer (Oedipus)
1990	Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis MOVIE	Himself
1986	Min Tanaka à La Borde MOVIE	Self
1971	Great Performances TV	Oedipus Dancer

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