Rena Tanaka (田中 麗奈, Tanaka Rena, born 22 May 1980) is a Japanese actress and TV personality. 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.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

Films

• Give It All (1998)^[1]
• 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)
• Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo (2011)
• Isoroku (2011)^[2]
• The Wings of the Kirin (2012), Tokiko Kanamori
• 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^[3]
• September 1923 (2023), Shizuko Sawada^[4]
• Where Love Goes (2023)^[5]
• Dare to Stop Us 2 (2024)^[6]

Television

• Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Yura Gozen
• Burning Flower (2015), Mōri Yasuko
• Akira and Akira (2017), Ai Kitamura
• North Light (2020)^[7]
• The Grand Family (2021)^[8]
• Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku (2023)^[9]
• Boogie Woogie (2024), Omine^[10]