Min Tanaka

ActorCrew Mar 10 (age 81) Tokyo, Japan 1971–2026 (55 year career)

6.9 avg rating

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

Film

Perfect Days

Homeless

Film

47 Ronin

Lord Asano

Film

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

Kashiwazaki Nenji

Film

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

Kashiwazaki Nenji

Film

The Twilight Samurai

Zenemon Yogo

Film

Tekkonkinkreet

Suzuki (voice)

Film

Blade of the Immortal

Kagimura Habaki

Film

Children of the Sea

Jimu (voice)

Filmography

Acting (74)

Movies (53)

Sheep in the Box

2026 Upcoming

May 29

Kokuho

2025

as Mangiku Onogawa

7.9

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries

2025

as Narrator (voice)

Black Ox

The Real You

as Wakamatsu

Who Were We?

as [Facility director]

Perfect Days

as Homeless

Mom, Is That You?!

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

2023

as Miyazawa Kisuke

6.0

Some Body Comes Into the Light

as Dancer

Ghost Book

The Unnameable Dance

Amnesiac Love

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

2022

7.4

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

2021

6.7

A Morning of Farewell

2021

as Tatsuro Shiraishi

5.9

HOKUSAI

2021

as Hokusai Katsushika (old)

6.5

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

as Nechoong Tenpa

Children of the Sea

as Jimu (voice)

The Great War of Archimedes

2019

as Tadamichi Hirayama

6.5

Four Women Living in That House

as 山田一郎

Ninomiya Kinjirou

The Outsider

as Akihiro

Modest Heroes

as Blind Man (voice)

The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

as Tatsuo Harima

Vision

as Minamoto

The Scythian Lamb

as Katsumi Ōno

Blade of the Immortal

2017

as Kagimura Habaki

6.7

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

2017

as Binbogami

7.4

The Ark in the Mirage

2016

Haruneko

2016

as Manager's Father

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

2016

8.3

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

2015

5.0

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

7.6

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

47 Ronin

as Lord Asano

The Eternal Zero

Hajimari mo owari mo nai

2013

The Tale of Iya

2013

as Grandpa

6.9

Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man

Rebirth

as Taki

Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

2011

as Seigetsu Inoue

Heaven's Door

2009

as Henmi

6.2

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

as Narrator

Tekkonkinkreet

as Suzuki (voice)

Riding the Metro

La Maison de Himiko

as Himiko

The Hidden Blade

as Kansai Toda

The Twilight Samurai

as Zenemon Yogo

Oedipus Rex

as Dancer (Oedipus)

Mountain Stage

1993

as Self

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

1990

as Himself

8.0

Min Tanaka à La Borde

1986

Television (21)

The 19th Medical Chart

2025

as Noboru Akaike

8.0

House of the Owl

2024

as Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami

Barakamon

as Ryuunosuke Yagami

GAME OF SPY

as Naoto Kaizaki

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

2021

10.0

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

8.2

Forgery It's tough being a man

Miracles

as Yoshitaka Aikawa

A Life

as Okita Isshin

Goodbye Newspaper

Love That Makes You Cry

2016

as Kenji Soda

8.1

Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story

as Oribe Kiyosaku

Mare

as Okesaku Ganji

To Give a Dream

as President

The God of Risk

as Takao Sekiguchi

Gu Gu the Cat

as Homeless man

My Wife is Ninja

as Seizan

Ryōmaden

2010

9.1

Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection

2009

as Narrator (voice)

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

as Yukio Katou

Great Performances

as Oedipus Dancer

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Day Time Noon

1986

Choreographer