Rena Tanaka
Birthday: 1980-05-22
Place of Birth: Kurume, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
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.
Movies
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...
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Inubu: The Dog Club
Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was littl...
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Tohru Fujisawa's popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in ...
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10 Promises to My Dog
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...
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Drugstore Girl
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, sh...
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is...
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Flowers
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way t...
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First Love
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boy...
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The Sowing Traveller 3
Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi...
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Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori
Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go t...
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Kitaro
Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the ev...
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Dreams for Sale
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild t...
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The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsu...
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September 1923
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake....
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The Silver Season
The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out ...
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A Day on the Planet
Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewel...
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Waiting in the Dark
A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Me...
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Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Ca...
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Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2
Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his ow...
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Tokyo Marigold
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for...
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Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku
One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her relig...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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Toy Reanimator
Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with ti...
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The Wings of the Kirin
A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect ...
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The Taste of Fish
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshe...
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Tripping
It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who get...
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Summer of Ubume
Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sek...
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Give It All
Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and pla...
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Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946
Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the co...
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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade...
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Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We d...
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to att...
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The Shadow Spirit
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the da...
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The Katsuragi Murder Case
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru com...
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Desperate Sunflowers
Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. U...
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Chateau de la Reine
The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel ther...
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Miracle Apples
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown ...
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Dear Etranger
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...
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The Crimes That Bind
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was str...
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Koi
The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved ro...
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Walk, Walk, Walk ~ Shikoku Pilgrimage Journey
Aruku, Aruku, Aruku ~Shikoku Henro-michi~ (NHK Drama Special, Winter 2013) is about Hayama Misa (Tan...
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Kazoku Kashimasu ~ Family Complex
Yamamura Shuji (Tamaki Hiroshi) runs staffing "Family Romance Company" - a company that rents out pe...
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Yona Yona Penguin
Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" th...
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A Sower of Seeds
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fel...
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Ekiden
Two former teammates on a college relay team, find themselves pitted against each other in track com...
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The Days of Morisaki Bookstore
After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another ...
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Fuckin' Runaway
Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a...
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Fortress of Skulls
Japan, 1590. Following the death of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seizure of power, the myst...
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Where Love Goes
Junior high schoolers Sudo Ai and Sosuke Ito live together as a patchwork family in a small town in ...
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YUKIKAZE
Just 80 years ago, the peaceful sea was a battlefield. Soldiers continued to fight, dreaming of retu...
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Tokyo Forecast
A collection of short films by director Bunji Sotoyama. This unique trilogy—Call My Name, Haru Urara...
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The God of Curling
Kasumi, a high school student, has lived her life with curling in a scenic town near Karuizawa, home...
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Night Flower
Driven to the brink, Natsuki makes a desperate gamble: selling drugs to make her children's dreams c...
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The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal ...
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Strawberry Moon
Being sick since childhood, Moe has spent most of her life at home, without school or friends. After...
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Mag Mag
The revenge story of a woman whose partner is murdered by a ghost, and who will soon discover the tr...
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