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.

Filmography

• 2026Godzilla Minus Zero — Kanji Murakami
• History's Greatest Warriors
• 2026Sheep in the Box — Akio Yamagata
• 2025Kokuho — Mangiku Onogawa
• 2025Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries — Narrator (voice)
• The 19th Medical Chart — Noboru Akaike
• 2024Black Ox
• House of the Owl — Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
• 2024Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days — Narrator
• 2024The Real You — Wakamatsu
• 2024Who Were We? — [Facility director]
• Barakamon — Ryuunosuke Yagami
• 2023Father of the Milky Way Railroad — Miyazawa Kisuke
• 2023Mom, Is That You?!
• 2023Perfect Days — Homeless
• 2023Some Body Comes Into the Light — Dancer
• 2022Amnesiac Love — Takashima Yajuro
• GAME OF SPY — Naoto Kaizaki
• 2022Ghost Book
• 2022The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
• 2022The Unnameable Dance
• 2021A Morning of Farewell — Tatsuro Shiraishi
• 2021HOKUSAI — Hokusai Katsushika (old)
• 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
• 2021The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
• Forgery It's tough being a man
• 2019Children of the Sea — Jimu (voice)
• 2019Four Women Living in That House — 山田一郎
• 2019Ninomiya Kinjirou
• 2019Svaha: The Sixth Finger — Nechoong Tenpa
• 2019The Great War of Archimedes — Tadamichi Hirayama
• Miracles — Yoshitaka Aikawa
• 2018Modest Heroes — Blind Man (voice)
• 2018The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps — Tatsuo Harima
• 2018The Outsider — Akihiro
• 2018The Scythian Lamb — Katsumi Ōno
• 2018Vision — Minamoto
• A Life: A Love — Okita Isshin
• 2017Blade of the Immortal — Kagimura Habaki
• 2017Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura — Binbogami
• Goodbye Newspaper
• Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story — Oribe Kiyosaku
• 2016Haruneko — Manager's Father
• Love That Makes You Cry — Kenji Soda
• 2016Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
• 2016The Ark in the Mirage
• Mare — Okesaku Ganji
• 2015Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
• The God of Risk — Takao Sekiguchi
• To Give a Dream — President
• Gu Gu the Cat — Homeless man, Akama
• 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno — Kashiwazaki Nenji
• 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends — Kashiwazaki Nenji
• 201347 Ronin — Lord Asano
• 2013Hajimari mo owari mo nai
• My Wife is Ninja — Seizan
• 2013The Eternal Zero
• 2013The Tale of Iya — Grandpa
• 2012Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
• 2011Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu — Seigetsu Inoue
• 2011Rebirth — Taki
• Ryōmaden
• 2009Heaven's Door — Henmi
• 2009Map of the Sounds of Tokyo — Narrator
• Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection — Narrator (voice)
• Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth — Yukio Katou
• 2006Riding the Metro
• 2006Tekkonkinkreet — Suzuki (voice)
• 2005La Maison de Himiko — Himiko
• 2004The Hidden Blade — Kansai Toda
• 2002The Twilight Samurai — Zenemon Yogo
• 1993Oedipus Rex — Dancer (Oedipus)
• 1986Min Tanaka à La Borde
• 1986The Day Time Noon — Choreographer
• Great Performances — Oedipus Dancer

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2026A Pint of Ink — Himself
• 1993Mountain Stage — Self
• 1990Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis — Himself