Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former teen idol. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards Miyazawa began her career as a child model, seeing wide exposure as the original face of Mitsui Rehouse, and made her acting debut in the 1988 film Seven Day's War, for which she won the Japan Academy Award for Newcomer of the Year at age sixteen. Her short-lived music career began with the single "Dream Rush" in 1989, and the next year she performed at the prestigious Kōhaku Uta Gassen television special. Miyazawa quickly rose to prominence as one of the top idols of the early Heisei period, attracting controversy for her 1991 nude photography book Santa Fe, which moved 1.5 million copies. Her personal struggles were further scrutinized, including a high-profile engagement to sumo wrestler Takanohana, a suicide attempt and battle with anorexia nervosa. By 1996, she went into hiatus and briefly resettled in San Diego. She took on a few television drama roles in the late 1990s, and returned to the big screen in the Taiwanese films The Cabbie (2000) and Peony Pavilion (2001). She co-starred in the highly-acclaimed 2002 film The Twilight Samurai, which marked a full-fledged comeback for Miyazawa and remains as her most recognizable role both domestically and internationally. She saw further success in The Face of Jizo and Tony Takitani (2004), and received several accolades for Pale Moon (2014) and Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Asura as Tsunako
- 2023 · Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower as Romi (voice)
- 2023 · The Moon as Yoko
- 2023 · Phoenix: Eden17 as Romi (voice)
- 2022 · I Am Makimoto as Miharu Imae
- 2022 · The 13 Lords of the Shogun as Maki no kata
- 2022 · The Sunday Runoff as
- 2021 · Guilty Flag as
- 2021 · FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS as Eve (The First Woman)
- 2021 · Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~ as
- 2020 · North Light as
- 2019 · Seven Days War as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
- 2019 · No Longer Human as Michiko Tsushima
- 2019 · The Naked Director as Etsuko Takamiya
- 2017 · Ashiato Hime as
- 2016 · Her Love Boils Bathwater as Futaba Kono
- 2016 · Too Young To Die! as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
- 2016 · 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 as
- 2015 · Pieta in the Toilet as Takuto's Mother
- 2014 · Pale Moon as Rika Umezawa
- 2014 · Gu Gu the Cat as Asako Kojima
- 2014 · Leaders as
- 2014 · Kiki's Delivery Service as Kokiri
- 2013 · The After-Dinner Mysteries as Miho Kumazawa
- 2013 · 神様のボート as 노지마 요코
- 2012 · Blackboard as Hisako Shirahama
- 2012 · Blackboard as Shirahama Hisako
- 2011 · Princess Go as
- 2011 · Princess Go as Chacha/Yododono
- 2010 · MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming as
- 2010 · Oceans as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Gelatin Silver, Love as Assasin
- 2008 · Dreaming Awake as
- 2007 · The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Toyo Toyota
- 2006 · Hana as Osae
- 2005 · The Book of the Dead as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
- 2005 · Ashura as Tsubaki
- 2005 · Tony Takitani as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
- 2005 · Natsumeke no Shokutaku as
- 2004 · 一番大切な人は誰ですか? as Nakamichi Toko
- 2004 · The Face of Jizo as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
- 2003 · Musashi as Oshino
- 2002 · The Twilight Samurai as Tomoe Iinuma
- 2002 · Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
- 2002 · Utsutsu as Ikuko Obara
- 2001 · Peony Pavilion as Cui Hua
- 2001 · Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Kido Kubo
- 2000 · The Cabbie as Chuang Ching-wen
- 2000 · Food Fight as Miyazono Saeka
- 1999 · Romance as
- 1999 · Genroku Ryoran as Aguri
- 1998 · Precious Time as Lisa Takimura
- 1998 · Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel as
- 1996 · Concerto as
- 1996 · SMAP×SMAP as Bistro Guest
- 1995 · 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ? as
- 1995 · The Tale of Himeji Castle as
- 1995 · Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu as
- 1994 · 47 Ronin as Karu
- 1994 · 結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく as
- 1993 · Youth Peony Lantern as
- 1992 · Erotic Liaisons as Rie
- 1992 · Don't Steal My Heart as
- 1992 · Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 as
- 1992 · Basara: The Princess Goh as Princess Goh
- 1992 · Tokyo Elevator Girl as
- 1990 · 同屋三分亲 as
- 1990 · 梦中情人 as
- 1990 · Defeat the Devil! as Maki Hoshigawa
- 1989 · Why Do I Choose? as
- 1989 · Oshare dorobō as
- 1989 · 青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙 as Haduki Mika
- 1988 · Seven Days War as Hitomi Nakayama