Kei Tanaka

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Kei Tanaka was born on July 10, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. He was talented in playing basketball since elementary school and was seriously considering a career as a professional basketball player, until giving up the dream due to injury in the last year of the middle school. To have him to look for something new to do, his mother encouraged him to apply for a cast audition for a film. Through this event, he was scouted by his current agency Tristone Entertainment Inc in Japan.His first TV appearance was with the Nintendo video game commercial for "Mario Party3" in 2000. His acting career started rather humble as a supporting cast member of regular or single episode of TV drama series. In 2003, his role as a best friend of the leading character in TV drama "Water Boys" drew attention. He continued next many years playing supporting roles, as well as appearing on TV variety shows that were not relevant to his acting career. By gradually gaining acting experiences and recognition, he won the first leading role in the film Kogoeru kagami (2008), followed by the leading role in the TV drama Kosodate Play (2009). In 2011, he got married with Sakura, an actress he met through the TV drama "Massugu na otoko", and got their first daughter. He continued his career mostly as a supporting actor, and in 2016, he played the leading role Soichi Haruta in Ossan's Love (2016), a single episode TV drama that drew attention. Its TV series Ossan's Love (2018) was created, which turned out to be a smash hit. Soichi Haruta became his signature role, and he continued to play this role in the film Ossan's Love: Love or Dead (2019) and the second season for the TV series "Ossan's Love: in the sky (2019)". He now has a second daughter, and his career is now flourishing with more leading role offers as recently seen in It Is Your Turn (2019) and Mellow (2020). - IMDb Mini Biography By: shihopeko

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Kei Tanaka on average has worked on 4 movies per year from 2003 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Kei Tanaka movies released per year from 2010 till 2021.

Top Genres

Kei Tanaka works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 36% of Kei Tanaka movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Kei Tanaka worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Kei Tanaka has worked on is 6.0.

6.0 / 10

Kei Tanaka's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Ossan's Love (2018)

The expanded version of the 2016 TV special. Soichi Haruta is unpopular among women due to his poor social skills. However, he accidentally finds out both, his middle-aged boss, and his colleague have a crush on him. But they are men.

7.5/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Mystery
Doctor X (2012)

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable "doctor placement service" that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the ...

7.4/1054 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Itô kun A to E (2017)

A once successful screenwriter in her 30s finds inspiration when she decides to interview four women about a man named Ito that they all seem to have feelings for.

6.7/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).