Yōji Tanaka
Yōji Tanaka (born August 8, 1963, in Kiso, Nagano, Japan), also credited as BoBA, is a Japanese actor and television personality. After working for Japan National Railways, he moved to Tokyo in 1990 and began working as a film extra and lighting assistant before focusing on acting from 1994.
He became widely known through television dramas such as Hero (2001) and has since appeared in numerous films and television productions, including Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo, The Silent Service, and Bullet Train Explosion.
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Films (254)
Geisha War
2026 · Mr. Clean
Bullet Train Explosion
2025 · Hajime Shinjo
Waitress: The Musical
2025 · Cal
Kaiju Guy!
2025
Demon Virus
2025
Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2
2024 · Shinichi Inoue
Detective of Joshidaikoji
2023 · Azechi Genichiro
Jigen Daisuke
2023 · Taxi Driver
The Pearl Legacy
2023
Samurai Ninja Onimanji
2023
ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
2023
Gon-Mama
2022
The Broken Commandment
2022
Sun and Bolero
2022
Ring Wandering
2022 · Shioya
D-river
2022
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
2022 · Hayato Nakajima
Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
2021 · Keisuke Ukita
Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse
2021 · Yamamoto
Nebagiba New World
2021
Ura Aka: L'Aventure
2021
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021
Go! Go! Stupid Woman!
2021
Minori yuku
2020
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
2020
Blood-Club Dolls 2
2020 · Kuzu
Last Line Detective Tsuyoshi Iwakura
2020
Yan
2020
Mrs. Noisy
2020
The Smiling Man
2020 · Koichi Takizawa
Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with a Lie
2019
Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc
2019 · Asai Ginji
The Promised Land
2019
Dance with Me
2019 · Bus Driver
Hydra
2019 · Junichiro Kishida
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019 · Genjiro Tada
Stalking Vampire
2018
Blood-Club Dolls 1
2018 · Kuzuu
Come On Irene
2018 · Tatsuno
Until I, Who Was Unable to Go to School, Wrote "anohana" and "The Anthem of the Heart"
2018 · Tsukishima
My Long Awaited Love Story
2017 · Haibara Genjiro
Yellow Guitar (I think It’s time for me to quit music)
2017
Ringside Story
2017
Lemmings no Natsu
2017
Locodol Dorama Documentary
2017 · Director
Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale
2017 · Takiji
Kodoku : Meatball Machine
2017 · Yuji Noda
My Cactus
2017 · Mr. Morisaka
Tantei wa, konya mo yūutsu na yume o miru.
2017 · Yoji Tanaka
Survival Family
2017 · Vagrant Who Captures Carp
Shippu Rondo
2016 · foreman
L
2016
Unrequited Love
2016
Everest: The Summit of the Gods
2016
Specialist 4
2015 · Enzo Zeniya
Fade
2015
Glory of the Expedition
2015 · cameraman
Lingering Memories
2015
Obon Brothers
2015
Hero
2015 · Bartender
Specialist 3
2015 · Enzo Zeniya
Wood Job!
2014 · Instuctor
Homeland
2014
The Tale of Nishino
2014 · Minami's father
Judge !
2014 · Izawa
The After Dinner Mysteries
2013
Specialist
2013 · Enzo Zeniya
SPINNING KITE
2013 · Officer
The Rakugo Movie
2013 · Manager
Love Bombs
2013
The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
2012 · Machida
Sado Tempest
2012 · Sekihara
Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu
2012
Robo-G
2012 · Police Officer
Lessons
2011
Japanese Salaryman NEO
2011
The warped forest
2011
Kill Bill : The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Crazy 88 #3
Space Battleship, l'Ultime Espoir
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident
2010 · Juzo Inada
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special
2010
What a Wonderful Life!!
2010
月と嘘と殺人
2010
Kazura
2010
Monoroi
2009
The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant
2009
Randies
2009 · Robin
Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
2009
Killer Bride's Perfect Crime
2009 · Repair man
Yamagata Scream
2009 · Bubaigawa
Summer Wars
2009 · Yorihiko Jinnouchi (voice)
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
Baby, Baby, Baby !
2009
Crime or Punishment?!?
2009 · Boss of agency
20th Century Boys, chapitre 2 : Le Dernier Espoir
2009 · Detective Higashino
Pandemic
2009 · Eisuke Mita
The Soup of Heaven
2008
Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters
2008
All Around Us
2008
Nagai Nagai Satsujin
2008 · Security guard
My Darling of the Mountains
2008
Sing Salmon Sing
2008 · Cameraman
Death Note : L Change The World
2008 · Sasaki
The Silver Season
2008 · Kazuhiko Igawa
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007
Hero
2007 · Bartender
Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2007
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
Exte
2007 · Takashima
SOUL TRAIN
2006
The Letters
2006 · Kurata
Switch of Happiness
2006
The Backdancers!
2006
Udon
2006 · Biker police
Lovely Complex
2006
HERO
2006 · Bartender
Death Note
2006 · Sasaki
Memories of Matsuko
2006 · TV Actor
Mobile Detectives: The Movie
2006
Route 225
2006
Sleeping Flower
2005 · Masakazu Asada
Visas for Life
2005
Le Samouraï que j'aimais
2005
Nagurimono: Love & Kill
2005
La Guerre des Yokai
2005 · Yoichi's father
In the Pool
2005
Monsieur Greenpeas
2005 · Pinky
All About My Dog
2005 · Kentaro Maruyama
Animus Anima
2005 · Salon manager
Install
2004
A Perfect Day for Love Letters
2004 · (segment "Yuki ni saku hana")
Godzilla: Final wars
2004 · (uncredited)
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
2004
Swing Girls
2004 · Pinball Parlour Manager
The Hotel Venus
2004
The Taste of tea
2004 · Man of Prosecution Section
Believer
2004
Cutie Honey
2004
Jenifa
2004
Kill Bill : Volume 2
2004 · Crazy 88
Zebraman
2004 · Man In Supermarket
Making-of１７才
2004
Dead End Run
2003
Kill Bill : Volume 1
2003 · Crazy 88 #3
Zatoichi
2003 · Funahachi Family Henchmen
Be in Happiness
2003
The Battling Angel
2003 · Akita
Le négociateur
2003
Ghost Story Shin-Mimibukuro: Approaching Edition
2003 · Narumoto
Last Life in the Universe
2003 · Yakuza
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ni Ya
2003 · Narumoto
Border Line
2003
Age 17
2003 · Man 2
Alive
2003 · Hair Cut Guard
Life Is Journey
2003
Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
2003
Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003 · Director
Samouraï Resurrection
2003
SHORT FILMS
2003
Summer Breeze
2003
Iden & Tity
2003
Frog River
2002
Part-Time Detective
2002 · Ōshita
Aiki
2002
Swan's Song
2002 · Detective Yamashita
Barber's Sorrow
2002
Out
2002 · Kaneda
Ju-on : The Grudge
2002 · Yuji Toyama
Sensen fukoku
2002
Perfect Blue
2002 · Photographer
Igyō no koi
2002
Parco Fiction
2002 · Parco Officer
Kamaitachi no Yoru
2002
Better Left Unsaid / Mr. Yamaoka
2002 · Tanaka
Sabu
2002 · Toku
Totsunyuseyo! Asama sanso jiken
2002
KT
2002
Ryusei-Kacho
2002 · Passenger Next to Ryusei
Dog Star
2002
Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
2002 · AV actor
Ryûji Forever
2002 · Kawajiri
Pakodate-jin
2002
Toki No Kaori: Remember Me
2001 · Tamaki Sensei
Pistol Opera
2001 · Koroshi-ya No. 7
GO
2001 · Henchman of Kato's Father
Platonic Sex
2001
Gojoe, le pont vers l'Enfer
2001 · Kinta
Go Heat Man!
2001
Quartet
2001 · Singer
All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001 · Teru Onda
Waterboys
2001 · Security Guard
Kakashi
2001 · Junsa (uncredited)
Hotoke
2001
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
2001 · Rokuyama
Red Shadow
2001
Body Drop Asphalt
2001 · Fuyuki Tohjoh
Stereo Future
2001
Quartet for Two
2001 · Customer
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001 · Junya Aoki
Stake Out
2001
Party 7
2000 · Relative
By Player
2000
Enclosed Pain
2000
Seikimatsu no noroi Zoshoku
2000
House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
2000
Street of Gravestones
2000
La cité des âmes perdues
2000 · Okijima Gang Member
The Whispered City
2000 · Okamura
Senrigan
2000 · Cab driver
Monday
2000 · Yakuza
First Love
2000 · Prep School Teacher
Ring 0 : Le Commencement
2000 · Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)
Tabou
1999 · Samurai executed by Kanô
Charisma
1999 · Sugishita
Round About Midnight
1999 · Police Officer
One Piece! 水玉 COLLECTION
1999
Messengers
1999 · Driver
Tokyo Elegy
1999 · Yakuza boss
The Night the Angel Turned Away
1999
Lustful Wife
1999 · Mitsuo (Haruko's husband)
L'Été de Kikujiro
1999 · Yakuza Henchman #3
Poppoya
1999
Anarchy in (Ja)Panty
1999 · Detective
Adrenaline Drive
1999 · Bus Driver
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
1999 · Asahina
Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
1998
Shomuni
1998 · Gay makeup artist
Female Teacher 6
1998
Sunday Drive
1998 · Police Officer
Just Like Starting Over
1998
Unlucky Monkey
1998 · Citizen Convention Member
The Cold-Blooded Trap
1998
The Goofball
1998
The Outer Way
1998
The Fetist
1998 · The Patron
New Female Teacher: Distorted Ethics
1998
Akai yokujô: Hame jôzu
1997
Romantic Mania
1997 · Home Delivery Worker
Postman Blues
1997 · Killer
The Secret Garden
1997 · Iwata
Hakui honban: Hageshii aegi
1997 · Associate Producer
Atlanta Boogie
1996
Suddenly Arriving
1995
Shinjuku Triad Society
1995
Hunters' Sense of Touch
1995 · Yoshino
Forever with You
1995
Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration!
1995 · Shigeo Nogawa
119
1994
I Like You, I Like You Very Much
1994 · Takano's boyfriend
Tokarev
1994 · Yakuza
Nowhere Man
1991 · Bar patron
Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
1990
秀吉、スタートアップ企業で働く
Sleeping in the Red Earth
· Kanbayashi
Séries (66)
Hollow Cross
2026 · Yamabe
25 Years of You
2026 · Satoru Hatano
Yips
2024
Plamo no Hanashi
2024
Fujiko F. Fujio Sci-Fi Short Drama
2023
Draft King
2023
Get Ready!
2023
ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me?
2022 · Umebayashi
Ryosangata Riko
2022 · Yajima Ichi, Yassan
にっぽん！庭泊ひとり旅
2022 · 旅人
Kanban Neko
2022
Kamiki Ryunosuke's Filming Break
2022 · Cafe clerk
Avalanche
2021 · Tetsuji Uchimoto
The Scales of Justice
2021
The Country of Beauty
2021 · Director
オレの寿司物語
2020 · 磯川泰造
It's Your Turn
2019
Your Turn to Kill
2019 · Keisuke Ukita
His - I didn't think I would fall in love
2019 · Kumakiri Yusaku
The Good Wife
2019 · Yoshiro Futami
The Funny Chef of South Polar
2019 · 金村
Suits
2018 · Takuro Hoshikawa
Ten：The Nice Guy on the Path of Tenho
2018 · Ginji Asai（浅井 銀次）
Eerie: Invisible Face
2018 · Shogo Hashimoto
Akagi: Washizu Mahjong Kanketsu-hen
2018 · Takeshi Ogi（仰木 武司）
Unrequited Love
2017 · Mochizuki
Hitoya no Toge
2017
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016 · Shigeto Kawada
Cold Case - Shinjitsu no Tobira
2016 · Kamada Tatsuji
Beppin-san
2016 · Katsuji Ozawa
Avocat criminel 99.9
2016
Gisou no Fuufu
2015 · Richi Sudo
あてなよる
2015
Akagi
2015 · Takeshi Ogi（仰木 武司）
Saikyou no Futari
2015 · Iwao Takada
I'm Home
2015 · Man after Kyoto’s love
Fuben na Benriya
2015 · Taro Momono
Ouroboros
2015 · Jesus Mikoshiba
Seijo
2014 · Koike Kenji
HERO2014
2014
Olympic Ransom
2013
Baiser malicieux: l'Amour à Tokyo
2013 · Shigeo Aihara
Somato Kabushiki Kaisha
2012 · Mineta Kohei
Solitary Gourmet
2012 · Yoshino
Détective Conan - Un défi pour Shinichi Kudo
2011 · Masato Mine
School!!
2011 · Masato Ueno
Tofu Sisters
2010 · Ishida Kazuo
Gakeppuchi no Eri
2010 · Ryuji Himuro
Massugu na Otoko
2010 · Policeman
Untouchable
2009 · Makoto Nakahara
Konkatsu!
2009 · Masuoka Fumihiko
RESCUE
2009 · Igarashi Hachiro
Prisoner
2008 · Doi Yutaro
1 Pound no Fukuin
2008 · Kappei Onimaru
Edison's Mother
2008 · Iwai Yuuzou
Detective School Q
2007 · Shizuka Nishimura's father
Gachi Baka!
2006 · Tatsumura
Jikou Keisatsu
2006 · Yasuo Kohara
Un appel manqué
2005
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
Gaki no Tsukai Ne Pas Rire Batsu Game
2003 · Guest
Sky High
2003
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Handoku!!!
2001
Hero
2001 · Bartender / 酒保
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990