Min Tanaka
Acting
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.
Born: March 10, 1945
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
To Give a Dream
The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear like the perfect family. However, things start to change when Mikiko manages to get her daughter in show business.
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.
The Real You
Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.
Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
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～
Love That Makes You Cry
Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the big city of Tokyo, each with their own dreams and aspirations. Among them is Sugihara Oto and Soda Ren. After her mother died, Oto was raised by adoptive parents in Hokkaido. Although she has given up on having any high hopes or big dreams for her future, she still remains positive and faces life with optimistic attitude. One day, she finds out the fact that her adoptive parents are planning to marry her to the wealthy man in town in order to solve their financial debt. Soda Ren was raised by his grandfather in Fukushima. Ren works hard on one job after another in order to earn the money to buy back his grandfather's land so that they can start farming again. By chance, Oto and Ren meet in Hokkaido and they decide to move to Tokyo to find new life to change their fate and future. However, as soon as they arrive Tokyo, they get separated in the crowds...
Amnesiac Love
This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.
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 with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
Filmography
as Narrator (voice)
as Noboru Akaike
as Mangiku Onogawa
as Wakamatsu
as [Facility director]
as Ryutaro 'The Owl' Ogami
as Homeless
as Dancer
as Ryuunosuke Yagami
as Miyazawa Kisuke
as Naoto Kaizaki
as Hokusai Katsushika (old)
as Tatsuro Shiraishi
as Tadamichi Hirayama
as Jimu (voice)
as Nechoong Tenpa
as Tatsuo Harima
as Yoshitaka Aikawa
as Blind Man (voice)
as Minamoto
as Akihiro
as Katsumi Ōno
as Binbogami
as Kagimura Habaki
as Okita Isshin
as Manager's Father
as Oribe Kiyosaku
as Kenji Soda
as Takao Sekiguchi
as President
as Okesaku Ganji
as Homeless man
as Akama
as Kashiwazaki Nenji
as Kashiwazaki Nenji
as Lord Asano
as Grandpa
as Seizan
as Taki
as Seigetsu Inoue
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Henmi
as Yukio Katou
as Suzuki (voice)
as Himiko
as Kansai Toda
as Zenemon Yogo
as Self
as Himself
as Oedipus Dancer