Yoji Tanaka

Biography

Yoji Tanaka (田中要次, Tanaka Yoji, August 8, 1963) is a Japanese actor and talent. Also known as BoBA.

Known For

Solitary Gourmet

Yoshino

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

Guest

Beppin-san

Katsuji Ozawa

Bullet Train Explosion

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

Shigeo Aihara

Hero

Bartender

Your Turn To Kill

Keisuke Ukita

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Kaiju Guy!
2025	Demon Virus
2025	Bullet Train Explosion
2024	Dare to Stop Us 2
2023	ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
2023	The Pearl Legacy
2023	Jigen Daisuke	Taxi Driver
2023	Detective of Joshidaikoji	Azechi Genichiro
2023	Onimanji
2022	D-river
2022	Whisper in a Whisper as Important
2022	What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?	Hayato Nakajima
2022	Ring Wandering	Shioya
2022	Sun and Bolero
2022	The Broken Commandment
2021	Ura Aka: L'Aventure
2021	Go! Go! Stupid Woman!
2021	Your Turn to Kill: The Movie	Keisuke Ukita
2021	Nebagiba New World
2021	Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse	Yamamoto
2021	The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2020	Blood-Club Dolls 2	Kuzu
2020	Minori yuku
2020	The Smiling Man	Koichi Takizawa
2020	Yan
2020	Mrs. Noisy
2020	Last Line Detective Tsuyoshi Iwakura
2019	The Promised Land
2019	Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc	Asai Ginji
2019	Hydra	Junichiro Kishida
2019	Dance with Me	Bus Driver
2019	Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with a Lie
2019	The Nikaidos' Fall	Genjiro Tada
2018	Until I, Who Was Unable to Go to School, Wrote "anohana" and "The Anthem of the Heart"	Tsukishima
2018	Come On Irene	Tatsuno
2018	Blood-Club Dolls 1	Kuzuu
2018	Stalking Vampire
2017	Yellow Guitar (I think It’s time for me to quit music)
2017	Lemmings no Natsu
2017	Meatball Machine Kodoku	Yuji Noda
2017	My Long Awaited Love Story	Haibara Genjiro
2017	My Cactus	Mr. Morisaka
2017	Ringside Story
2017	Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale	Takiji
2017	Tantei wa, konya mo yūutsu na yume o miru.	Yoji Tanaka
2016	Shippu Rondo	foreman
2016	Unrequited Love
2016	L
2016	Survival Family	Vagrant Who Captures Carp
2015	Hero	Master
2015	Glory of the Expedition	cameraman
2015	Specialist 3	Enzo Zeniya
2015	Specialist 4	Enzo Zeniya
2015	Lingering Memories
2015	Fade
2015	Obon Brothers
2014	Homeland
2014	Judge!	Izawa
2014	Wood Job!	Instuctor
2014	The Tale of Nishino	Minami's father
2013	Love Bombs
2013	The After-Dinner Mysteries
2013	Specialist	Enzo Zeniya
2013	The Rakugo Movie	Manager
2013	SPINNING KITE	Officer
2012	Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu
2012	Sado Tempest	Sekihara
2012	Robo-G	Police Officer
2012	The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
2011	The Warped Forest
2011	Japanese Salaryman NEO
2011	Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair	Crazy 88 #3
2010	What a Wonderful Life!!
2010	Space Battleship Yamato
2010	Sakurada Gate Incident	Juzo Inada
2010	Kazura
2010	月と嘘と殺人
2009	Pandemic	Eisuke Mita
2009	Monoroi
2009	Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
2009	The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009	Yamagata Scream	Bubaigawa
2009	Crime or Punishment?!?	Boss of agency
2009	20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope	Detective Higashino
2009	Baby, Baby, Baby!
2009	Killer Bride's Perfect Crime	Repair man
2009	Randies	Robin
2009	Summer Wars	Yorihiko Jinnouchi (voice)
2009	The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant
2008	The Silver Season	Kazuhiko Igawa
2008	Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters
2008	All Around Us
2008	My Darling of the Mountains
2008	Death Note: L Change the WorLd	Sasaki
2008	Nagai Nagai Satsujin	Security guard
2008	The Soup of Heaven
2008	Sing Salmon Sing	Cameraman
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django
2007	Hero	Master
2007	Exte: Hair Extensions	Takashima
2007	Tokyo Rhapsody
2007	Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2006	SOUL TRAIN
2006	Lovely Complex
2006	Route 225
2006	Switch of Happiness
2006	Mobile Detectives: The Movie
2006	Memories of Matsuko	TV Actor
2006	Udon	Biker police
2006	Backdancers!
2006	The Letters	Kurata
2006	Death Note	Sasaki
2005	Animus Anima	Salon manager
2005	Nagurimono: Love & Kill
2005	スリーピングフラワー
2005	All About My Dog	Kentaro Maruyama
2005	In the Pool
2005	The Great Yokai War	Yoichi's father
2005	The Samurai I Loved
2005	Visas for Life
2004	Cutie Honey
2004	Making-of１７才
2004	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	Crazy 88
2004	The Hotel Venus
2004	Believer
2004	Jenifa
2004	A Perfect Day for Love Letters	(segment "Yuki ni saku hana")
2004	Swing Girls	Pinball Parlour Manager
2004	Zebraman	Man In Supermarket
2004	The Taste of Tea	Man of Prosecution Section
2004	Install
2004	Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
2004	Godzilla: Final Wars	(uncredited)
2003	Last Life in the Universe	Yakuza
2003	Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
2003	SHORT FILMS
2003	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	Crazy 88 #3
2003	Iden & Tity
2003	Age 17	Man 2
2003	BORDER LINE
2003	Alive	Hair Cut Guard
2003	Life Is Journey
2003	Dead End Run
2003	The Negotiator
2003	Samurai Resurrection
2003	The Battling Angel	Akita
2003	Zatoichi	Funahachi Family Henchmen
2003	Be in Happiness
2003	Summer Breeze
2002	Kamaitachi no Yoru
2002	Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl	Asahina
2002	Swan's Song	Detective Yamashita
2002	Better Left Unsaid / Mr. Yamaoka	Tanaka
2002	Frog River
2002	Ryusei-Kacho	Passenger Next to Ryusei
2002	Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
2002	The Choice of Hercules
2002	Sabu	Toku
2002	Parco Fiction	Parco Officer
2002	Pakodate-jin
2002	KT
2002	Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
2002	Dog Star
2002	Aiki
2002	Sensen fukoku
2002	Out	Kaneda
2002	Ju-on: The Grudge	Yuji Toyama (uncredited)
2002	Igyō no koi
2001	Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies	Rokuyama
2001	Kakashi	Junsa (uncredited)
2001	Pistol Opera	Koroshi-ya No. 7
2001	GO	Henchman of Kato's Father
2001	Quartet for Two	Customer
2001	Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle	Kinta
2001	Stereo Future
2001	Go Heat Man!
2001	Platonic Sex
2001	Waterboys	Security Guard
2001	Stake Out
2001	Body Drop Asphalt	Fuyuki Tohjoh
2001	Quartet	Singer
2001	Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius	Junya Aoki
2001	Red Shadow
2001	Hotoke
2001	All About Lily Chou-Chou	Teru Onda
2001	Toki no kaori: Remember me	Tamaki Sensei
2000	Party 7	Relative
2000	Monday	Yakuza
2000	The City of Lost Souls	Okijima Gang Member
2000	Street of Gravestones
2000	Enclosed Pain
2000	House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
2000	Seikimatsu no noroi Zoshoku
2000	Ring 0	Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)
2000	First Love	Prep School Teacher
2000	By Player
2000	Senrigan	Cab driver
1999	Kikujiro	Yakuza Henchman #3
1999	Railroad Man
1999	One Piece! 水玉 COLLECTION
1999	Charisma	Sugishita
1999	Anarchy in Japansuke
1999	The Night the Angel Turned Away
1999	Adrenaline Drive	Bus Driver
1999	Tokyo Elegy	Yakuza boss
1999	Lustful Wife
1999	Messengers	Driver
1999	Round About Midnight	Police Officer
1999	Taboo	Samurai executed by Kanô
1998	Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
1998	Unlucky Monkey	Citizen Convention Member
1998	Just Like Starting Over
1998	The Fetist	The Patron
1998	The Goofball
1998	The Outer Way
1998	The Cold-Blooded Trap
1998	Sunday Drive	Police Officer
1998	Shomuni	Gay makeup artist
1997	赤い欲情はめ上手
1997	My Secret Cache	Iwata
1997	Romantic Mania	Home Delivery Worker
1997	Postman Blues	Killer
1996	Atlanta Boogie
1995	Hunters' Sense of Touch	Yoshino
1995	Forever with You
1995	Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration!
1995	Suddenly Arriving
1995	Shinjuku Triad Society
1994	Tokarev	Yakuza
1994	I Like You, I Like You Very Much
1994	119
1991	Nowhere Man	Bar patron
1990	Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
	秀吉、スタートアップ企業で働く

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Plamo no Hanashi
2024	Yips
2023	Get Ready!
2022	Kamiki Ryunosuke's Filming Break	Cafe clerk
2022	Kanban Neko
2022	にっぽん！庭泊ひとり旅	旅人
2022	Ryosangata Riko	Yajima Ichi
2022	ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me?	Umebayashi
2022	Ryosangata Riko	Yassan
2021	The Scales of Justice
2021	Avalanche	Tetsuji Uchimoto
2021	Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
2020	オレの寿司物語	磯川泰造
2019	His - I Didn't Think I Would Fall in Love	Kumakiri Yusaku
2019	The Good Wife	Yoshiro Futami
2019	The Funny Chef of South Polar	金村
2019	It's Your Turn
2019	Your Turn To Kill	Keisuke Ukita
2018	Suits	Takuro Hoshikawa
2018	Ten: Tenhodori no Kaidanji	Ginji Asai（浅井銀次）
2018	Akagi: Washizu Mahjong Kanketsu-hen	Takeshi Ogi（仰木武司）
2018	Eerie: Invisible Face	Shogo Hashimoto
2017	Hitoya no Toge
2017	Unrequited Love	Mochizuki
2016	99.9 Criminal Lawyer
2016	Beppin-san	Katsuji Ozawa
2015	I'm Home	Man after Kyoto’s love
2015	Unhandy Handyman	Taro Momono
2015	Ouroboros	Jesus Mikoshiba
2015	Saikyou no Futari	Iwao Takada
2015	Fake Marriage	Richi Sudo
2015	Akagi	Takeshi Ogi（仰木武司）
2014	Saintly Woman	Koike Kenji
2013	Olympic Ransom
2013	Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo	Shigeo Aihara
2012	Solitary Gourmet	Yoshino
2012	Soumatou Kabushikigaisha	Mineta Kohei
2010	Tofu Sisters	Ishida Kazuo
2010	Gakeppuchi no Eri - Kono yo de ichiban daiji na 'Kane' no hanashi	Ryuji Himuro
2010	Mr. Straightforward	Policeman
2009	Konkatsu!	Masuoka Fumihiko
2009	Rescue: Pride of Orange	Igarashi Hachiro
2009	Untouchable	Makoto Nakahara
2008	One-Pound Gospel	Kappei Onimaru
2008	Prisoner	Doi Yutaro
2008	Edison's Mother	Iwai Yuuzou
2007	Detective School Q	Shizuka Nishimura's father
2006	Gachi Baka!	Tatsumura
2006	Time Limit Investigator	Yasuo Kohara
2005	One Missed Call
2003	川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003	Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game	Guest
2003	Sky High
2002	The Private Detective Mike
2001	Hero	Bartender
2001	Handoku!!!
1990	Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen