Miou Tanaka Explained

Miou Tanaka
Native Name:	田中 美央
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	4 July 1974
Birth Place:	Hyōgo, Japan
Occupation:	Actor, voice actor
Years Active:	1998–present

^{[1] [2]} is a Japanese actor and voice actor who is best known for appearing in films such as the Kingdom series (2019–) and Godzilla Minus One (2023).

Filmography

Stage

• Golden Twilight (1998)
• Robot (1999)

Film

• Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams (2001)
• Living Will (2001)
• The Emperor in August (2015) as Kokatsu Arao^[3]
• (2016)
• Sekigahara (2017) as Saizo Kani
• Killing for the Prosecution (2018) as Takaaki Koike
• Hell Dogs (2022) as Kazufusa Tawaraya
• (2022) as Yuan
• (2023) as Yuan
• Godzilla Minus One (2023) as Tatsuo Hotta
• Ultraman Blazar The Movie (2024)
• (2024) as Yuan^[4]

Television drama

• (2017) as Okuyama "Rokuza" Rokuzaemon
• Scarlet (2019) as Hideki Sumita
• Idaten (2019) as Tadaoki Yamamoto
• Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021) as Tanuma Okitaka
• What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023) as Okabe Motonobu
• The Tiger and Her Wings (2024) as Tadayoshi Ichiyanagi^[5]

Animated films

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (2024) as Kojiro Murdoch replacing the late Toshihiko Nakajima

Television animation

• Kingdom (2020–21) as Han Ming
• Megalobox (2021) as Ignacio "Chief" Martinez
• The Heike Story (2021) as Kumagai Naozane
• Kaiju No. 8 (2024) as Juzo Nogizaka^[6]

Original video animation

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI - Rise of the Red Comet (2018) as Ryu José

Video games

• (2020) as Yōsuke Tendō
• (2023) as Yōsuke Tendō
• (2025) as Raymond Law^[7]

Japanese dub

Live-action

• Benedict Wong
  • Doctor Strange as Wong
  • as Wong
  • as Wong
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as Wong
  • as Wong
  • as Wong
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Wong
• Alice Through the Looking Glass as King Oleron (Richard Armitage)
• as Harris (Ron Smyck)^[8]
• The Man with the Iron Fists as Brass Body (Dave Bautista)
• Twisters as Dexter (Tunde Adebimpe)^[9]

Animation

• Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure as Lance Strongbow
• The Wild Robot as Thorn^[10]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 田中美央 たなか みおう はい俳優プロダクション エンパシィ . 2024-04-02 . ja.
2. Web site: 2021-06-25 . 田中美央 男優 劇団俳優座映画放送部 . 2024-04-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210625063355/https://haiyuza.info/actor/m-tanaka/ . 2021-06-25 .
3. Web site: 田中美央 : 関連作品（映画） . 2024-04-02 . 映画.com . ja.
4. Web site: キングダム 大将軍の帰還. 19 July 2024. eiga.com.
5. Web site: 虎に翼:「ゴジラ-1.0」出演で話題 "イケボ"検察官に視聴者注目「起訴状読んでるの艦長じゃん!」「すごい美声の人出てきた」. 23 July 2024. Mantan-web. 23 July 2024.
6. Web site: テレビアニメ「怪獣8号 」#11より. 19 July 2024. Miou Tanaka official blog.
7. Web site: 『龍が如く8外伝』の序盤のストーリーが判明！新たな登場人物たちもお届け. 27 October 2024. Ascii Games.
8. Web site: 2024-04-06 . Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Film's Trailer Reveals Japanese Dub Cast . 2024-04-06 . Anime News Network . en.
9. Web site: 小芝風花＆津田健次郎、超巨大竜巻に挑む！『ツイスターズ』日本語吹替版キャスト発表. July 16, 2024. Cinema Today. July 2024.
10. Web site: 綾瀬はるか「野生の島のロズ」に吹替出演、柄本佑・鈴木福・いとうまい子らも参加. 30 November 2024. Natalie. ja.