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Min Tanaka
Born (1945-03-10) March 10, 1945 (age 79)
Tokyo, Japan[1]
Occupation(s)Dancer, actor
Years active1966–present
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

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 Director Notes Ref.
2002 The Twilight Samurai Yoji Yamada
2004 The Hidden Blade Yoji Yamada
2005 House of Himiko Isshin Inudo
2006 Tekkon Kinkreet Suzuki a.k.a. Rat (voice) Michael Arias
2009 Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Isabel Coixet Spanish film
2011 Rebirth Taki Izuru Narushima
2012 Gaiji Keisatsu Kentarō Horikirizono
2013 Return Masato Harada
The Eternal Zero Takashi Yamazaki
47 Ronin Lord Asano Carl Rinsch American film
2014 Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Okina Keishi Ōtomo
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends Okina Keishi Ōtomo
2017 Blade of the Immortal Mugai-ryū Takashi Miike
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura Binbōgami Takashi Yamazaki
2018 The Scythian Lamb Katsumi Ōno Daihachi Yoshida
Vision Minamoto Naomi Kawase
The Outsider Akihiro Martin Zandvliet American film
The House Where The Mermaid Sleeps Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Modest Heroes Blind man (voice) Akihiko Yamashita
Ninomiya Kinjirō Sho Igarashi
2019 The Great War of Archimedes Tadamichi Hirayama Takashi Yamazaki
Svaha: The Sixth Finger Nechung Tenpa Jang Jae-hyun South Korean film
Children of the Sea Jim (voice) Ayumu Watanabe
2020 The Memory Eraser Shin'ichi Sugawara Yūichirō Hirakawa
2021 Hokusai Old Hokusai Hajime Hashimoto Lead role
A Morning of Farewell Izuru Narushima [6]
2022 The Unnameable Dance Himself Isshin Inudo Documentary film [7]
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai Kawai Daiemon Takashi Koizumi [8]
Ghost Book Jizuri (voice) Takashi Yamazaki [9]
Amnesiac Love Wataru Hiranami Special appearance [10]
2023 Black Ox Zen priest Tetsuichirō Tsuta [11]
Ginga Tetsudō no Chichi Kisuke Miyazawa Izuru Narushima [12]

Television

Year Title Role Network Notes Ref.
2010 Ryōmaden Yoshida Tōyō NHK Taiga drama
2014 Gou Gou, The Cat Wowow
2015 Mare NHK Asadora
To Give a Dream Wowow
2016 Kyoto Love Story Sei-san Amazon Prime Video
Gou Gou, The Cat 2 Akama Wowow
2017 A Life: A Love Isshin Okita TBS
2019 Nodoka no Niwa Ikuo Sakaki NHK
2021 The Supporting Actors 3 Himself TV Tokyo
2022 The 13 Lords of the Shogun Fujiwara no Hidehira NHK Taiga drama [13]
Teen Regime Shigeo Hosaka NHK Miniseries [14]

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. ^ 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. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "名付けようのない踊り". eiga.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  8. ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "餓鬼が笑う". eiga.com. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "銀河鉄道の父". eiga.com. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "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.
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