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
Complete Filmography

Kokuho
2025
as Mangiku
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
2024
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
2024
as Wakamatsu
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?
2024
as [Facility director]
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
2024

Perfect Days
2023
as Homeless
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
2023
as Dancer
A beautiful session between dancer Tanaka Min and director Wim Wenders that illustrates something before we started speaking with words.

Mom, Is That You?!
2023
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
2023
as Miyazawa Kisuke
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
2022
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
2022
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
2022
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
2022
The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.

HOKUSAI
2021
as Hokusai Katsushika (old)
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
2021
as Tatsuro Shiraishi
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
2021
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
2019
as 山田一郎
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
2019
as Tadamichi Hirayama
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
2019
as Jimu (voice)
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
2019
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
2019
as Nechoong Tenpa
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
2018
as Tatsuo Harima
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
2018
as Blind Man (voice)
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
2018
as Minamoto
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

The Outsider
2018
as Akihiro
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

The Scythian Lamb
2018
as Katsumi Ōno
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
2017
as Binbogami
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
2017
as Kagimura Habaki
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
2016
as Manager's Father
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
2016
The Ark in the Mirage
2016
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
2015
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
2014
as Kashiwazaki Nenji
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
2014
as Kashiwazaki Nenji
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
2013
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
2013

47 Ronin
2013
as Lord Asano
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
2013
as Grandpa
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
2012
as Masayoshi Jo
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
2011
as Taki
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
2011
as Seigetsu Inoue
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
2009
as Narrator
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.

Heaven's Door
2009
as Henmi
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
2006
as Suzuki (voice)
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
2006
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

House of Himiko
2005
as Himiko
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
2004
as Kansai Toda
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
2002
as Zenemon Yogo
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
1993
as Self
A collaborative improvisational guitar and dance set featuring backing from crickets and cicadas.

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990
as Himself
"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...