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

Oedipus Dancer

Mare

Okesaku Ganji

Ryōmaden

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

GAME OF SPY

Naoto Kaizaki

House of the Owl

Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami

A Life

Okita Isshin

To Give a Dream

President

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Kokuho	Mangiku
2024	Black Ox
2024	Who Were We?	[Facility director]
2024	The Real You	Wakamatsu
2024	TIME
2023	Perfect Days	Homeless
2023	Mom, Is That You?!
2023	Father of the Milky Way Railroad	Miyazawa Kisuke
2023	some body comes into the light	Dancer
2022	The Unnameable Dance
2022	Amnesiac Love
2022	Ghost Book
2022	The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2021	A Morning of Farewell	Tatsuro Shiraishi
2021	HOKUSAI	Hokusai Katsushika (old)
2021	The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2019	Four Women Living in That House	山田一郎
2019	Svaha: The Sixth Finger	Nechoong Tenpa
2019	The Great War of Archimedes	Tadamichi Hirayama
2019	Children of the Sea	Jimu (voice)
2019	Ninomiya Kinjirou
2018	The Scythian Lamb	Katsumi Ōno
2018	The Outsider	Akihiro
2018	Vision	Minamoto
2018	Modest Heroes	Blind Man (voice)
2018	The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps	Tatsuo Harima
2017	Blade of the Immortal	Kagimura Habaki
2017	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	Binbogami
2016	Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
2016	The Ark in the Mirage
2016	Haruneko	Manager's Father
2015	Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
2014	Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends	Kashiwazaki Nenji
2014	Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno	Kashiwazaki Nenji
2013	47 Ronin	Lord Asano
2013	The Eternal Zero
2013	The Tale of Iya	Grandpa
2013	Hajimari mo owari mo nai
2012	Black Dawn	Masayoshi Jo
2011	Rebirth	Taki
2011	Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu	Seigetsu Inoue
2009	Map of the Sounds of Tokyo	Narrator
2009	Heaven's Door	Henmi
2006	Tekkonkinkreet	Suzuki (voice)
2006	Riding the Metro
2005	House of Himiko	Himiko
2004	The Hidden Blade	Kansai Toda
2002	The Twilight Samurai	Zenemon Yogo
1993	Mountain Stage	Self
1990	Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis	Himself

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	The 19th Medical Chart	Noboru Akaike
2024	House of the Owl	Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
2023	Barakamon	Ryuunosuke Yagami
2022	GAME OF SPY	Naoto Kaizaki
2021	Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
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～	Rōjin
2020	Forgery It's tough being a man
2018	Miracles	Yoshitaka Aikawa
2017	A Life	Okita Isshin
2017	Goodbye Newspaper
2016	Love That Makes You Cry	Kenji Soda
2016	Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story	Oribe Kiyosaku
2015	The God of Risk	Takao Sekiguchi
2015	To Give a Dream	President
2015	Mare	Okesaku Ganji
2014	Gu Gu the Cat	Akama
2014	Gu Gu the Cat	Homeless man
2013	My Wife is Ninja	Seizan
2010	Ryōmaden
2009	Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection	Narrator (voice)
2007	Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth	Yukio Katou
1971	Great Performances	Oedipus Dancer