Rena Tanaka

is a Japanese actress. In 1999, she won the Japanese Academy Award for "Best Newcomer" for her performance in Give It All; in 2001, she received a "Best Actress" nomination for First Love.

Selected filmography

Films Give It All (1998) GTO (1999) First Love (2000) Ekiden (2000) Suki (2001) Tokyo Marigold (2001) Gangushurisha (2002) Thirteen Steps (2002) Drugstore Girl (2003) A Day on the Planet (2004) Legend of Nin Nin Ninga Hattori (2004) Ubume no Natsu (2005) The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005) Tripping (2006) Waiting in the Dark (2006) Gegege no Kitaro (2007) Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (2007) The Silver Season (2008) 10 Promises to My Dog (2008) Mōryō no Hako (2008) Yamazakura (2008) The Taste of Fish (2008) Kitaro and the Millennium Curse (2008) Flowers (2010) The Days of Morisaki Bookstore (2010) Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo (2011) Isoroku (2011) The Wings of the Kirin (2012), Tokiko Kanamori A Sower of Seeds (2012), Minori A Sower of Seeds 3 (2016), Minori Desperate Sunflowers (2016) The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016), Junko Hoshino Dear Etranger (2017) The Crimes That Bind (2018), Tokiko Kanamori Inubu: The Dog Club (2021), Mitsuko Kadowaki September 1923 (2023), Shizuko Sawada Where Love Goes (2023) Dare to Stop Us 2 (2024) Curling Dream (2024) Yukikaze (2025), Shizu Terasawa Strawberry Moon (2025), Miyoko Sakurai Night Flower (2025), Miyuki Hoshizaki The Stars and Moon are Holes in the Sky (2025), Chieko How to Steal the Gold (2026), Mikako Mag Mag (2026), Reiko Watase Wait Offshore (2026)

Television Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Yura Gozen Burning Flower (2015), Mōri Yasuko Akira and Akira (2017), Ai Kitamura North Light (2020) The Grand Family (2021) The Child of God Murmurs (2023) Boogie Woogie (2024), Omine