Min Tanaka

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born March 10, 1945 is a Japanese dancer and actor.

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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. He received the Chevalier of l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1989 or 1990.

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.

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Filmography

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Films

2002	The Twilight Samurai
2004	The Hidden Blade
2005	House of Himiko
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	Asano Naganori	American film
2014		Okina
		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
		Nechung Tenpa	South Korean film
	Children of the Sea	Jim (voice)
2020	The Memory Eraser	Shin'ichi Sugawara
2021	Hokusai	Old Hokusai	Lead role
	A Morning of Farewell
2022	The Unnameable Dance	Himself	Documentary
	The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai	Kawai Daiemon
	Yokaipedia	Jizuri (voice)
	Amnesiac Love		Special appearance
2023	Father of the Milky Way Railroad	Kisuke Miyazawa
	Mom, Is That You?!
	Perfect Days	Homeless man	Japanese-German film
2024	Who Were We?
	The Real You	Wakamatsu
	2025	Kokuho	Onogawa Mangiku
2026	Black Ox	Zen priest

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Television

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