Reisen Ri (, , born Lee Cho-ja []; 25 March 1942 â 22 June 2021), also credited as Reisen Lee, was a Japanese actress of Zainichi Korean origin. She was associated with the Angura underground theatre movement, and was the wife of playwright Jà «rà  Kara.
A third-generation Zainichi Korean, Ri was born Lee Cho-ja in Tokyo in 1942. Her Japanese civil name was Hatsuko Otsuru. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School and studied acting in Butai Geijutsu Gakuin, where she met her future husband Jà «rà  Kara.
She joined Kara's "Situation Theatre" in 1963 and gave her film debut in Nagisa à Âshima's 1969 Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. In 1972, she starred in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Summer Soldiers, and in 1985, in Paul Schrader's '. In addition, she appeared on stage in Japan and South Korea.
Ri was married to Kara from 1967 to 1988, though they remained friends after separating. She was friends with South Korean dissident writer Kim Chi-ha.
In 1975, she acquired Japanese citizenship.
She died in Tokyo of pneumonia on 22 June 2021, aged 79.