Min Tanaka

Known for: Acting
Born: March 10, 1945, Tokyo, Japan
Movies: 56

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.

Upcoming Min Tanaka Movies

Godzilla Minus Zero

2026

November 3, 2026

Best-Known Movies

6.2

47 Ronin

2013

7.8

Perfect Days

2023

6.1

The Outsider

2018

7.6

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014

6.7

Blade of the Immortal

2017

7.7

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

2014

7.4

Tekkonkinkreet

2006

7.8

The Twilight Samurai

2002

7.1

Children of the Sea

2019

6.7

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

2019

Filmography

2026	Godzilla Minus Zero	Kanji Murakami
2026	A Pint of Ink	Himself
2026	Sheep in the Box	Akio Yamagata
2025	Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries	Narrator (voice)
2025	Kokuho	Mangiku Onogawa
2024	Black Ox
2024	The Real You	Wakamatsu
2024	Who Were We?	[Facility director]
2024	Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days	Narrator
2023	Perfect Days	Homeless
2023	Some Body Comes Into the Light	Dancer
2023	Mom, Is That You?!
2023	Father of the Milky Way Railroad	Miyazawa Kisuke
2022	Amnesiac Love	Takashima Yajuro
2022	Ghost Book
2022	The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022	The Unnameable Dance
2021	HOKUSAI	Hokusai Katsushika (old)
2021	A Morning of Farewell	Tatsuro Shiraishi
2021	The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2019	Four Women Living in That House	山田一郎
2019	The Great War of Archimedes	Tadamichi Hirayama
2019	Children of the Sea	Jimu (voice)
2019	Ninomiya Kinjirou
2019	Svaha: The Sixth Finger	Nechoong Tenpa
2018	The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps	Tatsuo Harima
2018	Modest Heroes	Blind Man (voice)
2018	Vision	Minamoto
2018	The Outsider	Akihiro
2018	The Scythian Lamb	Katsumi Ōno
2017	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	Binbogami
2017	Blade of the Immortal	Kagimura Habaki
2016	Haruneko	Manager's Father
2016	Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
2016	The Ark in the Mirage
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	The Eternal Zero
2013	Hajimari mo owari mo nai
2013	47 Ronin	Lord Asano
2013	The Tale of Iya	Grandpa
2012	Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
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	La Maison de Himiko	Himiko
2004	The Hidden Blade	Kansai Toda
2002	The Twilight Samurai	Zenemon Yogo
1993	Mountain Stage	Self
1993	Oedipus Rex	Dancer (Oedipus)
1990	Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis	Himself
1986	Min Tanaka à La Borde

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