Minoru Tanaka (actor)
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was a Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 born in Ōta
Ota, Tokyo
is one of the 23 Special wards of Tokyo, Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the ward has an estimated population of 676,458, with 348,492 households, and a population density of 11,376.69 persons per km²...

, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Japan
Japan
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. He was a graduate of the Tokyo metropolitan Yukigaya high school, Mumeijuku and was represented by JVC Entertainment Networks at the time of his death.

Film roles

  • Uruu no Machi (1991)
  • Gekkō no Natsu (1993) - Shinsuke Kazama
  • Uso (1995)
  • Miyazawa Kenji -Sono Ai- (1996)
  • Kanzō Sensei(1998)
  • I love You (1999) - Ryūichi Mizukoshi
  • Declaration of war (2000) - Takayasu Tsutsumi
  • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
    Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
    Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Wataru Mimura, and produced by Toho Co., Ltd. It is the 26th installment in the Godzilla series of films. It is the fourth film to feature Mechagodzilla...

     (2002) - A guard
  • Kusa no Ran (2004)
  • Deguchi no nai Umi (2006) - Toda
  • Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers
    Ultraman Mebius
    is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 17th TV series and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on April 8, 2006...

     (2006) - Captain Shingo Sakomizu
  • Kamen Rider W Returns
    Kamen Rider W Returns
    is a set of two V-Cinema releases that serve as spin-offs of characters from the Kamen Rider W television series and films. These films focus on the characters of Ryu Terui as Kamen Rider Accel and Katsumi Daido as Kamen Rider Eternal...

    : Kamen Rider Accel (2011) - Police Officer Hiroshi Sagami / Commander Dopant

Stage roles

  • Taiyō to Tsuki ni Somuite (1999)
  • Kenkyaku Shōbai (2001, 2003)
  • Proof (2001)
  • Kotoba (2002)

Television roles

  • Rinrin to (1990, NHK
    NHK
    NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

    )
  • Nurse Station (1991, TBS
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....

    )
  • Yanagi-bashi Ryojō (2000, NHK)
  • Onsen e Yukō! (Series, TBS) - A manager
  • Deka Kizoku (After Part 2, NTV
    Nippon Television
    is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...

    )
  • Jungle
  • Aibō (Season IV, EX
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....

    )
  • Byōin e Yukō! (Series TBS) - Yūji Katase
  • Wednesday Mystery 9 "A medical examiner Shinomiya Hadzuki" 6 (2005, TX
    TV Tokyo
    is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

    ) - Kōichi Machida
  • anego (2005 NTV)
  • Voice recorder (2005 TBS)
  • Ultraman Mebius
    Ultraman Mebius
    is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 17th TV series and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on April 8, 2006...

     (2006 CBC
    Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
    is a regional radio and television service serving Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its radio service is affiliated with the Japan Radio Network and its television service affiliated with the Japan News Network and the TBS Network.-Radio:Frequency...

    /TBS) - Captain Shingo Sakomizu

Voice roles

  • Ally McBeal
    Ally McBeal
    Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...

    (2002) - Raymond Millbury
  • Hornblower
    Hornblower (TV series)
    Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....

    (2002–2003) - Horatio Hornblower
    Horatio Hornblower
    Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...

  • Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....

    (2003) - Commissar Danilov
  • Summer Scent
    Summer Scent
    Summer Scent is a 20-episode TV drama series made in 2003. It is the third installment of the four part Endless Love drama series directed by Yoon Seok-Ho, produced by South Korean TV Network KBS.- Storyline :...

    (2004) - Yoo Min-woo
  • Doctor Zhivago (2006) - Yuri Zhivago

Television CM roles

  • Kao
    Kao Corp.
    is a chemical and cosmetics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Kao began as a domestic toiletry soap manufacturing company in 1887 by Tomiro Nagase...

    "Bath Magicrin"
  • Kao "Econa Brand"
  • Chugai Pharmaceutical "Guronsan"

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