# Rena Tanaka

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Japanese actress (born 1980)

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Rena Tanaka 田中 麗奈 Born (1980-05-22) 22 May 1980 (age 46) Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan Occupation Actress Years active 1995–present Website www.tanakarena.co.jp

**Rena Tanaka** (田中 麗奈, *Tanaka Rena*; born 22 May 1980) is a Japanese actress. In 1999, she won the [Japanese Academy Award](/source/Japanese_Academy_Awards) for "Best Newcomer" for her performance in *Give It All*; in [2001](/source/24th_Japan_Academy_Prize), she received a "Best Actress" nomination for *[First Love](/source/First_Love_(2000_film))*.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Selected filmography

### Films

- *[Give It All](/source/Give_It_All_(film))* (1998)[1]

- *[GTO](/source/Great_Teacher_Onizuka#Live-action)* (1999)

- *[First Love](/source/First_Love_(2000_film))* (2000)

- *Ekiden* (2000)

- *Suki* (2001)

- *Tokyo Marigold* (2001)

- *Gangushurisha* (2002)

- *Thirteen Steps* (2002)

- *[Drugstore Girl](/source/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](/source/Gegege_no_Kitaro)* (2007)

- *[Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms](/source/Town_of_Evening_Calm%2C_Country_of_Cherry_Blossoms)* (2007)

- *The Silver Season* (2008)

- *[10 Promises to My Dog](/source/10_Promises_to_My_Dog)* (2008)

- *[Mōryō no Hako](/source/M%C5%8Dry%C5%8D_no_Hako)* (2008)

- *Yamazakura* (2008)

- *[The Taste of Fish](/source/The_Taste_of_Fish)* (2008)

- *Kitaro and the Millennium Curse* (2008)

- *Flowers* (2010)

- *[The Days of Morisaki Bookstore](/source/Days_at_the_Morisaki_Bookshop)* (2010)[2]

- *[Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo](/source/Genji_Monogatari%3A_Sennen_no_Nazo)* (2011)

- *[Isoroku](/source/Isoroku_(film))* (2011)[3]

- *[The Wings of the Kirin](/source/The_Wings_of_the_Kirin)* (2012), Tokiko Kanamori

- *A Sower of Seeds* (2012), Minori[4]

- *A Sower of Seeds 3* (2016), Minori[5]

- *Desperate Sunflowers* (2016)

- *The Katsuragi Murder Case* (2016), Junko Hoshino

- *Dear Etranger* (2017)

- *[The Crimes That Bind](/source/The_Crimes_That_Bind_(2018_film))* (2018), Tokiko Kanamori

- *Inubu: The Dog Club* (2021), Mitsuko Kadowaki[6]

- *[September 1923](/source/September_1923_(film))* (2023), Shizuko Sawada[7]

- *Where Love Goes* (2023)[8]

- *Dare to Stop Us 2* (2024)[9]

- *Curling Dream* (2024)[10]

- *Yukikaze* (2025), Shizu Terasawa[11]

- *Strawberry Moon* (2025), Miyoko Sakurai[12]

- *Night Flower* (2025), Miyuki Hoshizaki[13]

- *The Stars and Moon are Holes in the Sky* (2025), Chieko[14]

- *How to Steal the Gold* (2026), Mikako[15]

- *Mag Mag* (2026), Reiko Watase[16]

- *Wait Offshore* (2026)[17]

### Television

- *[Taira no Kiyomori](/source/Taira_no_Kiyomori_(TV_series))* (2012), Yura Gozen[18]

- *[Burning Flower](/source/Burning_Flower)* (2015), Mōri Yasuko

- *Akira and Akira* (2017), Ai Kitamura

- *North Light* (2020)[19]

- *[The Grand Family](/source/Karei-naru_Ichizoku)* (2021)[20]

- *The Child of God Murmurs* (2023)[21]

- *[Boogie Woogie](/source/Boogie_Woogie_(Japanese_TV_series))* (2024), Omine[22]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["がんばっていきまっしょい"](https://eiga.com/movie/35761/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 May 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["森崎書店の日々"](https://eiga.com/movie/55683/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 太平洋戦争70年目の真実"](https://eiga.com/movie/56481/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 November 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["種まく旅人 みのりの茶"](https://eiga.com/movie/56868/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 August 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["種まく旅人 夢のつぎ木"](https://eiga.com/movie/82697/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 August 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["大原櫻子、浅香航大ら『犬部!』追加キャスト10名発表 林遣都＆中川大志の場面カットも解禁"](https://www.crank-in.net/news/88924/1). *Crank-in!*. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["福田村事件"](https://eiga.com/movie/97856/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 September 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["愛のゆくえ"](https://eiga.com/movie/99025/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 May 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["青春ジャック 止められるか、俺たちを2"](https://eiga.com/movie/99875/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 October 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["本田望結主演、世界大会を目指す女子高生たちの奮闘と友情を描く『カーリングの神様』11・8公開"](https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2337077/full/). *Oricon*. Retrieved 22 July 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["雪風 YUKIKAZE"](https://eiga.com/movie/103053/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["ストロベリームーン"](https://eiga.com/movie/103292/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 June 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["ナイトフラワー"](https://eiga.com/movie/103293/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 August 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["星と月は天の穴"](https://eiga.com/movie/104561/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["田中麗奈×森崎ウィン共演作「黄金泥棒」来年4月に公開、主婦が100億円の金茶碗狙う"](https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/640478). *Natalie* (in Japanese). 17 September 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** ["禍禍女"](https://eiga.com/movie/104392/). *Eiga.com* (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 November 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** ["沖で待つ"](https://yiff.jp/films/xwWMr6YF). *Yokohama International Film Festival* (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 April 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** ["平清盛"](https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/12-taiga.html). *Haiyaku Jiten* (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 January 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** ["原作・横山秀夫 土曜ドラマ「ノースライト」制作開始！"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201125050837/https://www.nhk.or.jp/dramatopics-blog/20000/435277.html). *NHK*. Archived from [the original](https://www.nhk.or.jp/dramatopics-blog/20000/435277.html) on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** ["『華麗なる一族』追加メインキャスト発表 工藤阿須加、田中麗奈、石坂浩二ら"](https://www.crank-in.net/news/84788/1). *Crank-in!*. Retrieved 7 January 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** ["河合優実、田中麗奈、根本真陽、森山未來が『NHKスペシャル "宗教2世"を生きる』ドラマ編に出演決定 ドキュメンタリー編と2回シリーズで"宗教2世"に迫る"](https://www.tvlife.jp/entame/622128). *TV Life*. Retrieved 12 October 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** ["ブギウギ:田中麗奈が"夜の女"役で朝ドラ初出演 劇場P役で麒麟・田村も"](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20240111dog00m200007000c.html). *Mantan-web*. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.tanakarena.co.jp/) (in Japanese)

- [Rena Tanaka](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849049/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

Awards for Rena Tanaka v t e Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer 1950s Shin Saburi (1950) Rentarō Mikuni (1951) Yoshitarō Nomura (1953) So Yamamura (1954) Tsuneo Kobayashi (1955) Kōji Nanbara (1955) Yoshirō Kawazu (1956) Yūjirō Ishihara (1957) Shohei Imamura (1958) 1960s Nagisa Ōshima (1960) Shima Iwashita (1961) Kirio Urayama (1962) Junya Sato (1963) Mako Midori (1964) Kei Kumai (1965) Tetsuya Watari (1966) 1970s Tomokazu Miura (1975) Shinobu Otake (1975) Mieko Harada (1976) Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977) Toshiyuki Nagashima (1978) Kenichi Kaneda (1979) 1980s Daisuke Ryu (1980) Kōichi Satō (1981) Jun Miho (1982) Tomoyo Harada (1983) Shōji Kaneko (1983) Kōji Kikkawa (1984) Yuki Saito (1985) Narimi Arimori (1986) Masahiro Takashima (1987) Naoto Ogata (1988) Ayako Kawahara (1989) 1990s Riho Makise (1990) Joji Matsuoka (1990) Hikari Ishida (1991) Yuki Sumida (1992) Gorō Kishitani (1993) Kyōko Tōyama (1993) Sawa Suzuki (1994) Makiko Esumi (1995) Ninety-nine (1996) Kōki Mitani (1997) Hitomi Satō (1997) Rena Tanaka (1998) Ryuhei Matsuda (1999) 2000s Tatsuya Fujiwara (2000) Ko Shibasaki (2001) Nakamura Shidō (2002) Manami Konishi (2002) Satomi Ishihara (2003) Anna Tsuchiya (2004) Mirai Moriyama (2004) Mikako Tabe (2005) Muga Tsukaji (2006) Rei Dan (2006) Yui Aragaki (2007) Yuriko Yoshitaka (2008) Lily Franky (2008) Masaki Okada (2009) Daisaku Kimura (2009) 2010s Toma Ikuta (2010) Nanami Sakuraba (2010) Mana Ashida (2011) Makita Sports (2012) Haru Kuroki (2013) Fuka Koshiba (2014) Anna Ishii (2015) Izumi Okamura (2016) Shizuka Ishibashi (2017) Sara Minami (2018) Nagisa Sekimizu (2019) 2020s Daiken Okudaira (2020) Yuumi Kawai (2021) Kōki (2022) Sōya Kurokawa (2023) Ikoi Hayase (2024) Ryuta Shibuya (2025) v t e Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Kiwako Taichi (1976) Ayumi Ishida (1977) Shinobu Otake (1978) Mayumi Ogawa (1979) Yoko Aki (1980) Yūko Tanaka (1981) Miyako Yamaguchi (1982) Mitsuko Baisho (1983) Kin Sugai (1984) Yoshiko Mita (1985) Mieko Harada (1986) Junko Sakurada (1987) Eri Ishida (1988) Hideko Yoshida (1989) Kanako Higuchi (1990) Jun Fubuki (1991) Miwako Fujitani (1992) Junko Sakurada (1993) Shigeru Muroi (1994) Meiko Kaji (1995) Eriko Watanabe (1996) Mitsuko Baisho (1997) Kumiko Asō (1998) Junko Fuji (1999) Naomi Nishida (2000) Ko Shibasaki (2001) Miho Kanno (2002) Eri Fukatsu (2003) Masami Nagasawa (2004) Hiroko Yakushimaru (2005) Yū Aoi (2006) Hiromi Nagasaku (2007) Kirin Kiki (2008) Kaoru Yachigusa (2009) Rie Tomosaka (2010) Nobuko Miyamoto (2011) Sakura Ando (2012) Chizuru Ikewaki (2013) Yuko Oshima (2014) Yō Yoshida (2015) Hana Sugisaki (2016) Rena Tanaka (2017) Kirin Kiki (2018) Nana Komatsu (2019) Aju Makita (2020) Shinobu Terajima (2021) Machiko Ono (2022) Fumi Nikaido (2023) Riho Yoshioka (2024) Misato Morita (2025) v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress 1951−1970 Akiko Tamura (1951) Chieko Nakakita (1952) Haruko Sugimura (1953) Yoshiko Kuga (1954) Sachiko Hidari (1955) Sadako Sawamura (1956) Kinuyo Tanaka (1957) Mariko Okada (1958) Kazuko Yoshiyuki (1959) Kinuyo Tanaka (1960) Michiyo Aratama (1961) Kyōko Kishida (1962) Tamao Nakamura (1963) Yuko Kusunoki (1964) Tomoko Naraoka (1965) Sumiko Sakamoto (1966) Sachiko Hidari (1967) Hisano Yamaoka (1968) Akiko Koyama (1969) Tomoko Naraoka (1970) 1983−present Saori Yuki (1983) Yoshiko Mita (1984) Mariko Fuji (1985) Sachiko Murase (1986) Eri Ishida (1987) Kumiko Akiyoshi (1988) Haruko Sagara (1989) Miho Tsumiki (1990) Jun Fubuki (1991) Nobuko Otowa (1992) Junko Sakurada (1993) Shigeru Muroi (1994) Haruko Wanibuchi (1995) Reiko Kusamura (1996) Mitsuko Baisho (1997) Kimiko Yo (1998) Hijiri Kojima (1999) Keiko Matsuzaka (2000) Keiko Oginome (2001) Rie Miyazawa (2002) Michiyo Ōkusu (2003) Tomoko Tabata (2004) Yuka Itaya (2005) Yū Aoi (2006) Keiko Takahashi (2007) Keiko Matsuzaka (2008) Kaoru Yachigusa (2009) Yui Natsukawa (2010) Hiromi Nagasaku (2011) Sakura Ando (2012) Yuriko Yoshitaka (2013) Chizuru Ikewaki (2014) Masami Nagasawa (2015) Mikako Ichikawa (2016) Rena Tanaka (2017) Kirin Kiki (2018) Chizuru Ikewaki (2019) Aju Makita (2020) Kaya Kiyohara (2021) Aoi Itō (2022) Suzu Hirose (2023)

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