Min Tanaka

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Min Tanaka
cropped headshot of Tanaka at Tokyo International Film Festival 2023
Tanaka in 2023
Born (1945-03-10) March 10, 1945 (age 80)
Tokyo, Japan[1]
Occupation(s)Dancer, actor
Years active1966–present

Min Tanaka (田中泯, Tanaka Min, born March 10, 1945) is a Japanese dancer and actor.

Biography

Tanaka was trained in ballet and modern dance, but in 1974, turned his back on these forms. He began his solo career with a series of nearly-naked primarily outdoor improvisational dances that took place throughout Japan, often dancing up to five times a day. For a time in the 1980s, he was associated with Hijikata Tatsumi and butoh, a loose genre of Japanese dance, but now has broken from that framework as well, and no longer uses that term to describe his dances.

From 1986 to 2010, Tanaka hosted dance workshops based in Body Weather, a movement ideology which "conceives of the body as a force of nature: omni-centered, anti-hierarchic, and acutely sensitive to external stimuli." In 1985, Tanaka and his colleagues founded Body Weather Farm, located four hours west of Tokyo, where he taught summer sessions lasting four to five weeks in Japanese and English. Much of the training workshop students received was centered on the labor of workaday tasks, primarily in agriculture. Tanaka taught that performing such tasks in their environments and with their accompanying physical stimulations functioned as a dance student's teacher itself, overturning the tradition of the environment taking on a subordinate role to the dance student's technique.[2] He received the Chevalier of l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1989[3][4] or 1990.[1]

He continues to experiment with new ways to use the body, including drawing inspiration from farming. Starting in 2002, he began to appear in movies and on television. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 26th Japan Academy Film Prize for The Twilight Samurai.[5]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2002 The Twilight Samurai [5]
2004 The Hidden Blade [6]
2005 House of Himiko [7]
2006 Tekkon Kinkreet Suzuki a.k.a. Rat (voice)
2009 Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Spanish film
2011 Rebirth Taki
2012 Gaiji Keisatsu
2013 Return
The Eternal Zero Kageura
47 Ronin Lord Asano American film
2014 Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Okina
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends Okina
2017 Blade of the Immortal Mugai-ryū
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura Binbōgami
2018 The Scythian Lamb Katsumi Ōno
Vision Minamoto
The Outsider Akihiro American film
The House Where The Mermaid Sleeps
Modest Heroes Blind man (voice)
Ninomiya Kinjirō
2019 The Great War of Archimedes Tadamichi Hirayama [8]
Svaha: The Sixth Finger Nechung Tenpa South Korean film
Children of the Sea Jim (voice)
2020 The Memory Eraser Shin'ichi Sugawara [9]
2021 Hokusai Old Hokusai Lead role [10]
A Morning of Farewell [11]
2022 The Unnameable Dance Himself Documentary [12]
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai Kawai Daiemon [13]
Yokaipedia Jizuri (voice) [14]
Amnesiac Love Special appearance [15]
2023 Father of the Milky Way Railroad Kisuke Miyazawa [16]
Mom, Is That You?! [17]
Perfect Days Homeless man Japanese-German film [18]
2024 Who Were We? [19]
The Real You Wakamatsu [20]
2025 Kokuho Onogawa Mangiku [21]
TBA Black Ox Zen priest [22]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 Ryōmaden Yoshida Tōyō Taiga drama [23]
2014–16 Gou Gou, The Cat 2 seasons [24]
2015 Mare Asadora [25]
To Give a Dream
2016 Kyoto Love Story Sei-san
2017 A Life: A Love Isshin Okita
2019 Nodoka no Niwa Ikuo Sakaki
2021 The Supporting Actors 3 Himself
2022 The 13 Lords of the Shogun Fujiwara no Hidehira Taiga drama [26]
Teen Regime Shigeo Hosaka Miniseries [27]
2024 House of the Owl Ryutaro Ogami Lead role [28]

References

  1. ^ a b "略歴（箇条書き） - Min Tanaka ｜Rin Ishihara ★Dance★ Official Web Site★". www.min-tanaka.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ Fuller, Zack (2014). "Seeds of an anti-hierarchic ideal: summer training at Body Weather Farm, 2014". Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 5 (2): 197–203. doi:10.1080/19443927.2014.910542.
  3. ^ "Folha de S.Paulo - Saiba quem é Min Tanaka - 24/3/1995". www1.folha.uol.com.br. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ^ "FiLM DOKUMENTER & DiSKUSi : MiN TANAKA". ifi-lipyogyakarta.blogspot.jp. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b 第26回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
  6. ^ "隠し剣 鬼の爪". eiga.com. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  7. ^ "メゾン・ド・ヒミコ". eiga.com. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  8. ^ "アルキメデスの大戦". eiga.com. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  9. ^ "記憶屋 あなたを忘れない". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  10. ^ "HOKUSAI". eiga.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  11. ^ "吉永小百合、主演映画『いのちの停車場』で初の医師役　松坂桃李＆広瀬すずと初共演". Crank-in!. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  12. ^ "名付けようのない踊り". eiga.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  13. ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  14. ^ "ゴーストブック おばけずかん:下野紘が一反木綿に おばけ声優に杉田智和、大塚明夫、田中泯も 山崎貴監督最新作". Mantan-web. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  15. ^ "餓鬼が笑う". eiga.com. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  16. ^ "銀河鉄道の父". eiga.com. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  17. ^ "こんにちは、母さん". eiga.com. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  18. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (14 April 2023). "The Match Factory To Handle Wim Wenders' Tokyo-Set Cannes Competition Entry 'Perfect Days', Film Details & First-Look Revealed". Deadline. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  19. ^ "わたくしどもは。". eiga.com. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  20. ^ "本心". eiga.com. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  21. ^ "吉沢亮主演・横浜流星共演、映画『国宝』に渡辺謙出演 大河主演俳優そろい踏み 高畑充希・森七菜・見上愛も【コメントあり】". Oricon. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  22. ^ "リー・カンション主演、禅僧役に田中泯 蔦哲一朗監督「黒の牛」がクランクイン". eiga.com. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
  23. ^ "龍馬伝の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  24. ^ "「グーグーだって猫である」ドラマ続編の制作決定、宮沢りえらキャストは続投". Natalie. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  25. ^ TV まれ. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  26. ^ "鎌倉殿の13人:藤原秀衡役に田中泯 「龍馬伝」以来2度目の大河". eiga.com. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  27. ^ "神尾楓珠主演のNHKドラマ『17才の帝国』 追加キャストに柄本明、松本まりから". Oricon. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  28. ^ "親子役の田中泯・新田真剣佑が真剣勝負、「フクロウと呼ばれた男」ディズニープラスで配信". Natalie. Retrieved February 28, 2024.