Min Tanaka

Min Tanaka

1945-03-10 Tokyo, Japan 51 Credits

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.

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Kokuho

Kokuho

2025

as Mangiku

9.0
Acting

Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be e...

Black Ox

Black Ox

2024

Acting

In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX explores the relationship between man and ox, inspired b...

The Real You

The Real You

2024

as Wakamatsu

8.0
Acting

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted techn...

Who Were We?

Who Were We?

2024

as [Facility director]

2.0
Acting

On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the facility and takes the woman to her home. The woman...

TIME

TIME

2024

Acting
Perfect Days

Perfect Days

2023

as Homeless

7.8
Acting

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and ta...

some body comes into the light

some body comes into the light

2023

as Dancer

6.0
Acting

A beautiful session between dancer Tanaka Min and director Wim Wenders that illustrates something before we started speaking with words.

Mom, Is That You?!

Mom, Is That You?!

2023

5.9
Acting

Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his ...

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

2023

as Miyazawa Kisuke

6.0
Acting

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religi...

Amnesiac Love

Amnesiac Love

2022

8.0
Acting

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his li...

Ghost Book

Ghost Book

2022

6.1
Acting

The forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in order to make your wish come true you have to go thro...

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

2022

7.1
Acting

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from th...

The Unnameable Dance

The Unnameable Dance

2022

Acting

The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.

HOKUSAI

HOKUSAI

2021

as Hokusai Katsushika (old)

6.6
Acting

The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such ...

A Morning of Farewell

A Morning of Farewell

2021

as Tatsuro Shiraishi

6.2
Acting

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefectu...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

2021

6.7
Acting

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who g...

Four Women Living in That House

Four Women Living in That House

2019

as 山田一郎

7.0
Acting

A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.

The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes

2019

as Tadamichi Hirayama

6.6
Acting

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato...

Children of the Sea

Children of the Sea

2019

as Jimu (voice)

7.1
Acting

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dug...

Ninomiya Kinjirou

Ninomiya Kinjirou

2019

Acting

Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and...

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

2019

as Nechoong Tenpa

6.8
Acting

Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called De...

The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

2018

as Tatsuo Harima

6.9
Acting

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One ...

Modest Heroes

Modest Heroes

2018

as Blind Man (voice)

6.6
Acting

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero...

Vision

Vision

2018

as Minamoto

4.9
Acting

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

The Outsider

The Outsider

2018

as Akihiro

6.2
Acting

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

The Scythian Lamb

The Scythian Lamb

2018

as Katsumi Ōno

6.2
Acting

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by ...

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

2017

as Binbogami

7.3
Acting

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful...

Blade of the Immortal

Blade of the Immortal

2017

as Kagimura Habaki

6.7
Acting

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows tha...

Haruneko

Haruneko

2016

as Manager's Father

Acting

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

2016

8.0
Acting

The Ark in the Mirage

2016

Acting

A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retirement money, experiences social disenchantment, ali...

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

2015

5.0
Acting

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a resul...

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

2014

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

7.7
Acting

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final techn...

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

7.6
Acting

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio,...

The Eternal Zero

The Eternal Zero

2013

7.0
Acting

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they g...

Hajimari mo owari mo nai

Hajimari mo owari mo nai

2013

Acting
47 Ronin

47 Ronin

2013

as Lord Asano

6.2
Acting

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and ...

The Tale of Iya

The Tale of Iya

2013

as Grandpa

6.9
Acting

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humbl...

Black Dawn

Black Dawn

2012

as Masayoshi Jo

7.1
Acting

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium f...

Rebirth

Rebirth

2011

as Taki

7.6
Acting

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, i...

Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

2011

as Seigetsu Inoue

Acting

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the...

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

2009

as Narrator

5.2
Acting

A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.

Heaven's Door

Heaven's Door

2009

as Henmi

6.2
Acting

A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they ...

Tekkonkinkreet

Tekkonkinkreet

2006

as Suzuki (voice)

7.4
Acting

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the to...

Riding the Metro

Riding the Metro

2006

6.9
Acting

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

House of Himiko

House of Himiko

2005

as Himiko

6.4
Acting

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's y...

The Hidden Blade

The Hidden Blade

2004

as Kansai Toda

7.4
Acting

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his ...

The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai

2002

as Zenemon Yogo

7.8
Acting

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles ...

Mountain Stage

Mountain Stage

1993

as Self

Acting

A collaborative improvisational guitar and dance set featuring backing from crickets and cicadas.

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

1990

as Himself

8.0
Acting

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreogra...

The Day Time Noon

1986

Choreographer

Part opera, part cine-poem, part dance, The Day Time Noon is a mesmerizing, beautiful film in the stylized vision of Buto, a new dance aesthetic of mo...