Cast & creator
Min Tanaka
Best known for Great Performances, Perfect Days, Mare
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.
Also known as: たなか みん, 田中 泯, مین تاناکا
57
film credits
22
television credits
78
1971–2026 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (79)
Showing 79 of 79 credits
Great Performances
Oedipus Dancer
1971
Perfect Days
Homeless
2023
Mare
Okesaku Ganji
2015
Godzilla Minus Zero
Kanji Murakami
2026
Ryōmaden
2010
47 Ronin
Lord Asano
2013
The Eternal Zero
2013
The Twilight Samurai
Zenemon Yogo
2002
Kokuho
Mangiku Onogawa
2025
House of the Owl
Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
2024
Sheep in the Box
Akio Yamagata
2026
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Kashiwazaki Nenji
2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Kashiwazaki Nenji
2014
Love That Makes You Cry
Kenji Soda
2016
A Life: A Love
Okita Isshin
2017
The Real You
Wakamatsu
2024
Gu Gu the Cat
Homeless man
2014Gu Gu the Cat
Akama
2014
Tekkonkinkreet
Suzuki (voice)
2006
Children of the Sea
Jimu (voice)
2019
The 19th Medical Chart
Noboru Akaike
2025
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
Yukio Katou
2007
Miracles
Yoshitaka Aikawa
2018
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
Nechoong Tenpa
2019
Barakamon
Ryuunosuke Yagami
2023
Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story
Oribe Kiyosaku
2016
Blade of the Immortal
Kagimura Habaki
2017
GAME OF SPY
Naoto Kaizaki
2022
To Give a Dream
President
2015
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
2021
The Outsider
Akihiro
2018
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021
The God of Risk
Takao Sekiguchi
2015
Modest Heroes
Blind Man (voice)
2018
Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection
Narrator (voice)
2009
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Himself
1990
My Wife is Ninja
Seizan
2013
Ghost Book
2022
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Binbogami
2017
Mom, Is That You?!
2023
The Great War of Archimedes
Tadamichi Hirayama
2019
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Narrator
2009
Goodbye Newspaper
2017
HOKUSAI
Hokusai Katsushika (old)
2021
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Miyazawa Kisuke
2023
Vision
Minamoto
2018
Rebirth
Taki
2011
The Scythian Lamb
Katsumi Ōno
2018
Forgery It's tough being a man
2020
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Tatsuo Harima
2018
Riding the Metro
2006
A Morning of Farewell
Tatsuro Shiraishi
2021
La Maison de Himiko
Himiko
2005
History's Greatest Warriors
2026
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days
Narrator
2024
The Hidden Blade
Kansai Toda
2004
Some Body Comes Into the Light
Dancer
2023
Heaven's Door
Henmi
2009
Mountain Stage
Self
1993
Who Were We?
[Facility director]
2024
Four Women Living in That House
山田一郎
2019
Haruneko
Manager's Father
2016
Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
2016
Oedipus Rex
Dancer (Oedipus)
1993
Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
2012
Black Ox
2024The Ark in the Mirage
2016The Day Time Noon
Choreographer
1986
Ninomiya Kinjirou
2019
The Tale of Iya
Grandpa
2013
Min Tanaka à La Borde
1986
Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
2015
A Pint of Ink
Himself
2026
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries
Narrator (voice)
2025
Amnesiac Love
Takashima Yajuro
2022
The Unnameable Dance
2022
Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Seigetsu Inoue
2011