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Min Tanaka

Actor

Min Tanaka

Born March 10, 1945 in Tokyo, Japan47 films

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.

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Perfect Days posterFirst watchPerfect Days20237.8as HomelessHirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees.View film

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47 Ronin poster6.247 Ronin2013Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno poster7.6Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno2014Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends poster7.7Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends2014The Twilight Samurai poster7.8The Twilight Samurai2002Tekkonkinkreet poster7.4Tekkonkinkreet2006Blade of the Immortal poster6.7Blade of the Immortal2017Children of the Sea poster7.1Children of the Sea2019The Outsider poster6.1The Outsider2018

Filmography

47 films as actor
  1. 2026Godzilla Minus ZeroKanji Murakami
  2. 2026Sheep in the BoxAkio Yamagata
  3. 2025KokuhoMangiku Onogawa
  4. 2024Black Ox
  5. 2024The Real YouWakamatsu
  6. 2024Who Were We?[Facility director]
  7. 2023Perfect DaysHomeless
  8. 2023Mom, Is That You?!
  9. 2023Father of the Milky Way RailroadMiyazawa Kisuke
  10. 2022Amnesiac LoveTakashima Yajuro
  11. 2022Ghost Book
  12. 2022The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
  13. 2021HOKUSAIHokusai Katsushika (old)
  14. 2021A Morning of FarewellTatsuro Shiraishi
  15. 2021The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
  16. 2019Four Women Living in That House山田一郎
  17. 2019The Great War of ArchimedesTadamichi Hirayama
  18. 2019Children of the SeaJimu (voice)
  19. 2019Ninomiya Kinjirou
  20. 2019Svaha: The Sixth FingerNechoong Tenpa
  21. 2018The House Where the Mermaid SleepsTatsuo Harima
  22. 2018Modest HeroesBlind Man (voice)
  23. 2018VisionMinamoto
  24. 2018The OutsiderAkihiro
  25. 2018The Scythian LambKatsumi Ōno
  26. 2017Destiny: The Tale of KamakuraBinbogami
  27. 2017Blade of the ImmortalKagimura Habaki
  28. 2016HarunekoManager's Father
  29. 2016Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
  30. 2016The Ark in the Mirage
  31. 2015Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
  32. 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend EndsKashiwazaki Nenji
  33. 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto InfernoKashiwazaki Nenji
  34. 2013The Eternal Zero
  35. 2013Hajimari mo owari mo nai
  36. 201347 RoninLord Asano
  37. 2013The Tale of IyaGrandpa
  38. 2012Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
  39. 2011RebirthTaki
  40. 2009Map of the Sounds of TokyoNarrator
  41. 2009Heaven's DoorHenmi
  42. 2006TekkonkinkreetSuzuki (voice)
  43. 2006Riding the Metro
  44. 2005La Maison de HimikoHimiko
  45. 2004The Hidden BladeKansai Toda
  46. 2002The Twilight SamuraiZenemon Yogo
  47. 1993Oedipus RexDancer (Oedipus)