
Minoru Tanaka
Minoru Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler. Tanaka first gained prominence in Fujiwara Gumi and Battlarts before moving on to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he became a four time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, a five time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2006 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. After leaving NJPW, he joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he found continued success in the junior heavyweight and tag team ranks upon winning the World Junior Heavyweight Championship once and the All Asia Tag Team Championship twice. From 2013 to 2016, Tanaka worked for Wrestle-1. He is currently a freelancer, and primarily competes in Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he has held the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice. He is a former GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, making him the second man (after Naomichi Marufuji) to hold all three major Japanese junior heavyweight singles titles as well as the only man to hold all five major junior heavyweight titles in Japan (counting the aforementioned tag team prizes).
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Films
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New Japan Pro Wrestling
as Minoru Tanaka
1972

Pro Wrestling NOAH
2000

Zero Woman: The Hunted
as Bodyguard
1997

TNA Lockdown 2006
as Minoru Tanaka
2006

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 2
as Minoru
2008

Cinderella Formula
as Dr. Komiya
2008

TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014
as Minoru Tanaka
2014

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1
as Minoru
2007

NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love
2012

AAA Triplemania VIII
2000

Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson
as Heat/Himself
2013

TNA Sacrifice 2006
as Himself
2006