The Best Min Tanaka Movies, Ranked
37 credits from 1993 to 2026, ranked by the Movie Echo Score — a blend of critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. Perfect Days (2023) comes out on top with a score of 80. The biggest box office hit is Kokuho (2025) with $135M worldwide. Below: the best films by genre and by decade, the most awarded and the newest releases.
Top Rated Min Tanaka Movies
The 9 highest-rated films Min Tanaka is credited on. Perfect Days (2023) leads with 80, followed by Kokuho (2025) at 78. The Movie Echo Score blends critic reviews, audience ratings, cultural impact and how well a film holds up.
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#1 Movie Echo Score: Score 80 Perfect Days 2023 · Drama -
#2 Movie Echo Score: Score 78 Kokuho 2025 · Drama -
#3 Movie Echo Score: Score 78 The Great War of Archimedes 2019 · Action -
#4 Movie Echo Score: Score 78 Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 2019 · Adventure -
#5 Movie Echo Score: Score 78 Modest Heroes 2018 · Fantasy -
#6 Movie Echo Score: Score 71 Children of the Sea 2020 · Adventure -
#7 Movie Echo Score: Score 61 Svaha: The Sixth Finger 2019 · Mystery -
#8 Movie Echo Score: Score 60 Children of the Sea 2019 · Fantasy -
#9 Movie Echo Score: Score 57 The Outsider 2018 · Drama
Biggest Min Tanaka Box Office Hits
Min Tanaka's films have made $372M worldwide in total. Kokuho (2025) is the biggest hit at $135M, ahead of Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014) ($52.7M). Lifetime grosses, with each film's domestic share.
- 1 Kokuho 2025 · Drama $135M $1.12M dom.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno 2014 · Adventure $52.7M - 3
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends 2014 · Fantasy $41.9M - 4
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura 2017 · Mystery $35.2M - 5 Perfect Days 2023 · Drama $27.9M $3.77M dom.
- 6 Svaha: The Sixth Finger 2019 · Mystery $17.6M
- 7 The Great War of Archimedes 2019 · Action $16.5M
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps 2018 · Drama $8.07M - 9 Children of the Sea 2020 · Adventure $5.17M $81.2K dom.
- 10 Children of the Sea 2019 · Fantasy $5.17M $81.2K dom.
The Best Min Tanaka Movie in Every Genre
The best-rated film in each genre Min Tanaka has worked in, the genres with the most films first. Drama leads with 16 films, and Perfect Days (2023) is the pick of them.
- Drama 16 films Perfect Days 2023 · as Homeless Movie Echo Score: 80
- Fantasy 4 films Modest Heroes 2018 · as Blind Man (voice) Movie Echo Score: 78
- Adventure 3 films Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 2019 · as Mômoku no otoko (segment "Tômei ningen") Movie Echo Score: 78
- Mystery 3 films Svaha: The Sixth Finger 2019 · as Nechoongtenpa Movie Echo Score: 61
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Comedy 2 films Mom, Is That You?! 2023 - Action 2 films The Great War of Archimedes 2019 · as Tadamichi Hirayama Movie Echo Score: 78
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Crime 1 film The Scythian Lamb 2017 · as Katsumi Ōno
The Best Min Tanaka Movie of Each Decade
One pick per decade of Min Tanaka's career, newest decade first: the best-rated film of each ten years, from 2000s to 2020s.
The Latest Min Tanaka Movies
The most recent films Min Tanaka is credited on, newest first — starting with Sheep in the Box (2026). Open any of them for the cast, ratings, box office and where to watch.
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Sheep in the Box 2026 · Akio Yamagata - Kokuho 2025 · Mangiku Onogawa
- Perfect Days 2023 · Homeless
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Who Were We? 2023 · [Facility director] - Mom, Is That You?! 2023 · Comedy
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad 2023 · Miyazawa Kisuke -
Ghost Book 2022 · Fantasy -
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai 2022 · History -
HOKUSAI 2021 · Hokusai Katsushika (old) -
A Morning of Farewell 2021 · Tatsuro Shiraishi -
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood 2021 · Comedy - Children of the Sea 2020 · Adventure
The Best Min Tanaka Movies: Questions & Answers
The best-rated, highest-grossing, most awarded and newest Min Tanaka films, answered from the rankings on this page.
What is the best Min Tanaka movie?
Perfect Days (2023) is the best-rated Min Tanaka film, with a Movie Echo Score of 80, ahead of Kokuho (2025) (78) and The Great War of Archimedes (2019) (78). The Movie Echo Score blends critic reviews, audience ratings and how well a film has lasted.
Perfect Days: cast, ratings & box office What is the highest-grossing Min Tanaka movie?
Kokuho (2025) made the most at the box office, with $135M worldwide, followed by Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014) with $52.7M. Together, Min Tanaka's films with box office figures have made $372M.
What is the best Min Tanaka drama movie?
Perfect Days (2023) is the best-rated of Min Tanaka's drama films, with a score of 80. In other genres: Modest Heroes (fantasy), Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 (adventure) and Svaha: The Sixth Finger (mystery).
What is the newest Min Tanaka movie?
The newest film on Min Tanaka's filmography is Sheep in the Box (2026), with Min Tanaka as Akio Yamagata.
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