Dankan

{{short description|Japanese actor and film director|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Dankan

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|1|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Saitama, Japan

| death_date =

| death_place =

| othername = Minoru Iizuka (real name)

| occupation = Actor

| years active = 1990–present

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{{nihongo|Dankan|ダンカン||born 3 January 1959}} is a Japanese actor, screenplay writer and film director.{{Cite web |title=Dankan |url=https://mubi.com/en/cast/dankan |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=MUBI |language=en}} He appeared in more than 30 films since 1990.

Selected filmography

=Film=

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1990 \| Boiling Point \| Kazuo \| {{cite web\|url= http://office-kitano.co.jp/talentposts/565\|title= オフィス北野ダンカン\|access-date= 2017-02-16\|archive-date= 2019-07-15\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190715043710/http://office-kitano.co.jp/talentposts/565/\|url-status= dead}}
1995 \| Getting Any? \| Asao \|
1998 \| Suicide Bus (Ikinai) \| Aragaki \| also scriptwriter
2005 \| Shichinin no Tomurai \| \| also director and writer
2008 \| Suspect X \| Kuniaki Kudo \|
2014 \| The Snow White Murder Case \| Kozaburo Shirono \|
2017 \| Tokyo Ghoul \| Hisashi Ogura \|
2020 \| Fukushima 50 \| \|
2022 \| Thousand and One Nights \| Haruo \| {{cite web \|url= https://eiga.com/movie/97219/\|title= 千夜、一夜\|access-date= July 15, 2022\|work= eiga.com}}

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1990

| Boiling Point

| Kazuo

| {{cite web|url= http://office-kitano.co.jp/talentposts/565|title= オフィス北野ダンカン|access-date= 2017-02-16|archive-date= 2019-07-15|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190715043710/http://office-kitano.co.jp/talentposts/565/|url-status= dead}}

1995

| Getting Any?

| Asao

1998

| Suicide Bus (Ikinai)

| Aragaki

| also scriptwriter

2005

| Shichinin no Tomurai

| also director and writer

2008

| Suspect X

| Kuniaki Kudo

2014

| The Snow White Murder Case

| Kozaburo Shirono

2017

| Tokyo Ghoul

| Hisashi Ogura

2020

| Fukushima 50

2022

| Thousand and One Nights

| Haruo

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/97219/|title= 千夜、一夜|access-date= July 15, 2022|work= eiga.com}}

=Television=

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes ! class="unsortable" \| Ref.
2007 \|Fūrin Kazan \|Kasahara Kiyoshige \|Taiga drama \|{{cite web \|url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/07-taiga.html\|title= 風林火山\|access-date= 22 March 2025\|website= Haiyaku Jiten\|language=ja}}
2009 \|Clouds Over the Hill \|Ijichi Hikojiro \| \|
2012 \|Doctor Ume \|Inoue \|Asadora \|
2015 \|Hana Moyu \| \|Taiga drama \|
rowspan=2\|2017 \|Naotora: The Lady Warlord \|Negi \|Taiga drama \|
Silver and Gold \| Tetsu Umeya \| \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

! class="unsortable" | Ref.

2007

|Fūrin Kazan

|Kasahara Kiyoshige

|Taiga drama

|{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/07-taiga.html|title= 風林火山|access-date= 22 March 2025|website= Haiyaku Jiten|language=ja}}

2009