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Acting

Min Tanaka

Career: Active from 1993 to 2026, busiest in 2024 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 10
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: The Twilight Samurai
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 31 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Min Tanaka Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Situational Comedy
1.5, average 2.7
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Cringe Humor
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Japanese Cinema 5
Character-Driven 4
Social Commentary 4
Medical Drama 3
Terminal Illness 2
Melancholy 2
Family 2
Character Study 2
Emotional Resonance 2
Fantasy Adventure 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

60

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

20 titles · average score 70

Godzilla Minus Zero

75

as Kanji Murakami

History's Greatest Warriors

TV show

Kokuho

83

as Mangiku Onogawa

The 19th Medical Chart

75

TV show · as Noboru Akaike

House of the Owl

65

TV show · as Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami

Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days

as Narrator

The Real You

as Wakamatsu

Some Body Comes Into the Light

as Dancer

Perfect Days

85

as Homeless

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

64

as Miyazawa Kisuke

GAME OF SPY

TV show · as Naoto Kaizaki

HOKUSAI

63

as Hokusai Katsushika (old)

2010s

29 titles · average score 68

Children of the Sea

68

as Jimu (voice)

Modest Heroes

74

as Blind Man (voice)

The Outsider

43

as Akihiro

Vision

41

as Minamoto

A Life: A Love

69

TV show · as Okita Isshin

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

86

as Binbogami

Blade of the Immortal

74

as Kagimura Habaki

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

76

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

77

as Kashiwazaki Nenji

47 Ronin

39

as Lord Asano

The Tale of Iya

75

as Grandpa

My Wife is Ninja

TV show · as Seizan

2000s

8 titles · average score 70

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

50

as Narrator

Heaven's Door

63

as Henmi

Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

TV show · as Yukio Katou

Tekkonkinkreet

74

as Suzuki (voice)

La Maison de Himiko

65

as Himiko

The Hidden Blade

78

as Kansai Toda

The Twilight Samurai

87

as Zenemon Yogo

1990s

1 title

Oedipus Rex

as Dancer (Oedipus)

1980s

1 title

The Day Time Noon

Choreographer

1970s

1 title · average score 70

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Oedipus Dancer