Min Tanaka
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.
Perfect Days
as HomelessHirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured...
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The Outsider
as AkihiroA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II...
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47 Ronin
as Lord AsanoKai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
as Kashiwazaki NenjiKenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached...
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The Twilight Samurai
as Zenemon YogoSeibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Children of the Sea
as Jimu (voice)Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
as Kashiwazaki NenjiShishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him,...
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Modest Heroes
as Blind Man (voice)Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to...
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Tekkonkinkreet
as Suzuki (voice)Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure...
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Blade of the Immortal
as Kagimura HabakiManji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle....
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The Fighter Pilot
as uncreditedA brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during...
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger
as Nechoong TenpaPastor Park is head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders....
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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
as BinbogamiSet in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where...
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
as NarratorA Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
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The Great War of Archimedes
as Tadamichi HirayamaIt is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the...
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The Scythian Lamb
as Katsumi ŌnoBased on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town...
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Hokusai
as Hokusai Katsushika (old)The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have...
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Vision
as MinamotoCentres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997...
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House of Himiko
as HimikoSaori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned...
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The Hidden Blade
as Kansai TodaSet in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his...
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
as uncreditedIn a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in...
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Rebirth
as TakiAfter the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was...
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
as Miyazawa KisukeBiopic based on the life of poet and novelist Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan’s most read and...
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Heaven's Door
as HenmiA young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable...
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Riding the Metro
as uncreditedShinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
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Ghost Book: Obake Zukan
as uncreditedThe forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in...
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A Morning of Farewell
as Tatsuro ShiraishiSawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she...
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
as Tatsuo HarimaKaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once...
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Mom, Is That You?!
as uncreditedAkio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make...
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Somebody Comes into the Light
as uncreditedA beautiful session between dancer Tanaka Min and director Wim Wenders that illustrates...
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Amnesiac Love
as uncreditedThis story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional...
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Ninomiya Kinjirou
as uncreditedNinomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century...
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Black Dawn
as Masayoshi JoIn 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same...
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The Unnameable Dance
as uncreditedThe Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a...
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The Tale of Iya
as GrandpaAs a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched...
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Invisible
as Blind man (voice)An invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
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Haruneko
as Manager's FatherThose who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
as Himself"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in...
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
as uncreditedKeisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family...
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Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
as Seigetsu InouePart documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu...
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Four Women Living in That House
as 山田一郎A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As...
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Great Performances
as Oedipus DancerThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Mare
as Okesaku GanjiMare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before...
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Ryōmaden
as uncreditedRyōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010...
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Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
as uncreditedSet in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story...
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House of the Owl
as Ryutaro 'The Owl' OgamiAt the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and...
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Barakamon
as Ryuunosuke YagamiA proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island...
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Love That Makes You Cry
as Kenji SodaFollows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from...
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Gu Gu the Cat
as AkamaAbout a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living,...
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Gu Gu the Cat
as Homeless manAbout a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living,...
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Miracles
as Yoshitaka AikawaA comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves...
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To Give a Dream
as President13 years ago, the Abe family moved to a town in the suburbs, surrounded by nature. The Abe...
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GAME OF SPY
as Naoto KaizakiHashiba Takeru is the leader of Global Operation Service (GOS), a secret spy organization housed...
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A Life
as Okita IsshinWhen Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He...
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The God of Risk
as Takao SekiguchiSatoshi Saigyouji worked in crisis management for General Electric in the USA and the Japanese...
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My Wife is Ninja
as SeizanIt is the late Edo period. Futaboshi Hikoma, the Hirado domain's astronomer, is a rather...
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Goodbye Newspaper
as uncreditedA huge Japan newspaper company decides to sell itself due to failing sales. An eager buyer for...
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