Rena Tanaka
Acting
Biography
Rena Tanaka 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.
Born: May 22, 1980
Place of Birth: Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
Known For
YUKIKAZE
Just 80 years ago, the peaceful sea was a battlefield. Soldiers continued to fight, dreaming of returning home, and their families continued to pray and wait for their safety. What stories were there in each of their lives, and what were they each thinking?
Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2
Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his own films. The Cinema Skhole quickly turns into a hot spot for local cinephiles. Junichi INOUE tells an empathetic and almost true story about motion picture enthusiasts in this loose sequel to Kazuya SHIRAISHI’s DARE TO STOP US.
The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
My Sassy Girl
Ryokiteki na Kanojo is a Japanese television drama based on the South Korean movie My Sassy Girl. It narrates the story between Saburo Masaki, a marine biologist, and Riko Takami, an aspiring writer with a short temper. While the two are at odds with each other at first, they eventually become attracted to each other and develop a relationship. It received an average of 8.18% viewer rating throughout the series.
Your Tales of the Unusual
An omnibus drama based on short stories by Ryo Asai, who won the 22nd Novel Subaru Rookie Award for The Kirishima Thing and the 148th Naoki 35 Award for SOMEONE.
As Sawa-chan Rides the Waves
Sawa lives in a small port town called Hososhima in Hyuga City. He is a cheerful person who supports a single mother, Yoshiko, and also takes care of a junior high school younger brother. On the other hand, my divorced father, Takuji Tamayama, is a clumsy but hateful man who lives surfing. Sawa visits his father from time to time and takes care of him. Such a peaceful daily life is completely changed by the “incident” caused by my brother. Furthermore, by a reunion with my childhood friend Takeshi who is aiming to become a professional surfer, Sawa will be aware of the “real feeling” that he has hidden in his mind.
Waiting in the Dark
A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.
Gifted
Natsuki Amakusa (Masuda Takahisa), an overconfident genius detective with extraordinary deduction skills, meets Yuya Shiki (Ukisho Hidaka), a cool high school student who guessed the culprit at the scene of a suspected suicide. Yuuya possesses a special talent that allows him to see the shadows of murderers.
Over Time
29-year-old Natsuki bumps into 25-year-old Sôichirô while on vacation in Hokkaido. Back in Tokyo, Natsuki discovers Sôichirô is her friend Haruko's younger brother, and they all end up living together along with Fuyumi, a third friend. Natsuki and Sôichirô form a strong bond, but become involved with other people all the while wondering who they should be with.
The Silver Season
The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out local skiers that there is much more to life than they think.
Filmography
as Miyoko Sakurai
as Saho
as Maki Eto
as Golden Dust's Host
as Aiko Kinoshita
as Shizuko Sawada
as Maika Shiki
as Ogawa Yoshie
as Sudo Yumi
as Mochizuki Kaori
as Mitsuko Kadowaki
as Fusako
as Kaori Honda
as Natsuki Takigawa
as Yoshiko Korezawa
as Tokiko Kanamori
as Rika
as Nanae
as Youzeiin
as Keisuke's wife
as Reiko Asaka
as 黒崎依子
as Hinako Katase
as Keiko (Misumi) Inoue
as Misa Hayama
as Satsuki Tanahashi
as Naomi Mochizuki
as Eriko Tsuji
as Sekinuma Keiko
as Kobashi Koko
as Minori Morikawa
as Tokiko Kanamori
as Lady Yura
as Yoshie Kanzaki
as Rokujo-no-Miya Sudokoro
as Tomoko
as Midori
as Chaley (voice)
as Shiori Tengu
as Misawa Katsuko
as Narrator(voice)
as Catgirl
as Asuka
as Noe Isomura
as Riko Takami
as 타카미 리코
as Akari Saito
as Nanami Ayase
as Atsuko chuzenji
as Nanami Ishikawa
as Catgirl
as Michiru Honma
as Saeko Shirasu (voice)
as Shaodea
as Kumiko Ohara
as Atsuko Chuzenji
as Asuka Serizawa
as Midori
as Keiko Obayashi
as Maki
as Ako Nango
as Eriko Sakai
as Reiko
as Satoka Aida
as Ayano Katsuragi
as Rina Kamiya
as Etsuko Shinomura