Min Tanaka

Min Tanaka

Birthday: 1945-03-10

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Biography: 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.

Movies

The Unnameable Dance
The Unnameable Dance

The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a mult...

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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

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Four Women Living in That House
Four Women Living in That House

A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secre...

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Tekkonkinkreet
Tekkonkinkreet

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh...

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Perfect Days
Perfect Days

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, h...

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47 Ronin
47 Ronin

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the...

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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill....

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Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door

A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness ...

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Amnesiac Love
Amnesiac Love

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional anti...

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The Eternal Zero
The Eternal Zero

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...

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La Maison de Himiko
La Maison de Himiko

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Sao...

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Mom, Is That You?!
Mom, Is That You?!

Akio, an HR worker, visits his transformed mother Fukue in Tokyo. Baffled by her new lively self, he...

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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Father of the Milky Way Railroad

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...

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Black Ox
Black Ox

The life of a man, transitioning from a hunter-gatherer existence in the mountains to a life in the ...

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Ghost Book
Ghost Book

The forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in orde...

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some body comes into the light
some body comes into the light

A beautiful session between dancer Tanaka Min and director Wim Wenders that illustrates something be...

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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin t...

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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a ...

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Riding the Metro
Riding the Metro

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964....

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Who Were We?
Who Were We?

On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the f...

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The Tale of Iya
The Tale of Iya

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched region...

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The Real You
The Real You

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s tru...

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The Scythian Lamb
The Scythian Lamb

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, wh...

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Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage

A collaborative improvisational guitar and dance set featuring backing from crickets and cicadas....

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Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted b...

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The Ark in the Mirage
The Ark in the Mirage

A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retire...

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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical cr...

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The Outsider
The Outsider

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osak...

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Rebirth
Rebirth

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was havi...

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Vision
Vision

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 yea...

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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in ...

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Svaha: The Sixth Finger
Svaha: The Sixth Finger

Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begin...

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Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue w...

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Modest Heroes
Modest Heroes

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs,...

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The Great War of Archimedes
The Great War of Archimedes

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the worl...

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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once thei...

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Hajimari mo owari mo nai
Hajimari mo owari mo nai

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Children of the Sea
Children of the Sea

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boy...

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Ninomiya Kinjirou
Ninomiya Kinjirou

Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant b...

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A Morning of Farewell
A Morning of Farewell

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns...

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The Twilight Samurai
The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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The Hidden Blade
The Hidden Blade

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

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HOKUSAI
HOKUSAI

The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted...

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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan w...

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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the le...

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Haruneko
Haruneko

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut....

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Kokuho
Kokuho

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing ...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries

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