Min Tanaka

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

Great Performances

Ryōmaden

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

Perfect Days

47 Ronin

Barakamon

Love That Makes You Cry

Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection

All Movies (54)

• Sheep in the Box2026 · as Akio Yamagata
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries2025 · as Narrator (voice)
• Kokuho2025 · as Mangiku Onogawa
• Black Ox2024
• The Real You2024 · as Wakamatsu
• Who Were We?2024 · as [Facility director]
• Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days2024 · as Narrator
• Perfect Days2023 · as Homeless
• Some Body Comes Into the Light2023 · as Dancer
• Mom, Is That You?!2023
• Father of the Milky Way Railroad2023 · as Miyazawa Kisuke
• Amnesiac Love2022 · as Takashima Yajuro
• Ghost Book2022
• The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai2022
• The Unnameable Dance2022
• HOKUSAI2021 · as Hokusai Katsushika (old)
• A Morning of Farewell2021 · as Tatsuro Shiraishi
• The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood2021
• Four Women Living in That House2019 · as 山田一郎
• The Great War of Archimedes2019 · as Tadamichi Hirayama
• Children of the Sea2019 · as Jimu (voice)
• Ninomiya Kinjirou2019
• Svaha: The Sixth Finger2019 · as Nechoong Tenpa
• The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps2018 · as Tatsuo Harima
• Modest Heroes2018 · as Blind Man (voice)
• Vision2018 · as Minamoto
• The Outsider2018 · as Akihiro
• The Scythian Lamb2018 · as Katsumi Ōno
• Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura2017 · as Binbogami
• Blade of the Immortal2017 · as Kagimura Habaki
• Haruneko2016 · as Manager's Father
• Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken2016
• The Ark in the Mirage2016
• Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story2015
• Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends2014 · as Kashiwazaki Nenji
• Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno2014 · as Kashiwazaki Nenji
• The Eternal Zero2013
• Hajimari mo owari mo nai2013
• 47 Ronin2013 · as Lord Asano
• The Tale of Iya2013 · as Grandpa
• Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man2012
• Rebirth2011 · as Taki
• Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu2011 · as Seigetsu Inoue
• Map of the Sounds of Tokyo2009 · as Narrator
• Heaven's Door2009 · as Henmi
• Tekkonkinkreet2006 · as Suzuki (voice)
• Riding the Metro2006
• La Maison de Himiko2005 · as Himiko
• The Hidden Blade2004 · as Kansai Toda
• The Twilight Samurai2002 · as Zenemon Yogo
• Mountain Stage1993 · as Self
• Oedipus Rex1993 · as Dancer (Oedipus)
• Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis1990 · as Himself
• Min Tanaka à La Borde1986

All TV Shows (22)

• The 19th Medical Chart2025 · as Noboru Akaike
• House of the Owl2024 · as Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
• Barakamon2023 · as Ryuunosuke Yagami
• GAME OF SPY2022 · as Naoto Kaizaki
• 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～2021 · as Rōjin
• Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors2021
• Forgery It's tough being a man2020
• Miracles2018 · as Yoshitaka Aikawa
• Goodbye Newspaper2017
• A Life2017 · as Okita Isshin
• Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story2016 · as Oribe Kiyosaku
• Love That Makes You Cry2016 · as Kenji Soda
• The God of Risk2015 · as Takao Sekiguchi
• To Give a Dream2015 · as President
• Mare2015 · as Okesaku Ganji
• Gu Gu the Cat2014 · as Homeless man
• Gu Gu the Cat2014 · as Akama
• My Wife is Ninja2013 · as Seizan
• Ryōmaden2010
• Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection2009 · as Narrator (voice)
• Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth2007 · as Yukio Katou
• Great Performances1971 · as Oedipus Dancer