
About
Rie Miyazawa
Overview
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
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2025 | Asura | Actor | Tsunako | 72 Good |
2023 | Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower | Actor | Romi (voice) | 58 Average |
2023 | The Moon | Actor | Yoko | 58 Average |
2023 | Phoenix: Eden17 | Actor | Romi (voice) | 69 Fair |
2022 | I Am Makimoto | Actor | Miharu Imae | 58 Average |
2022 | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | Actor | Maki no kata | 71 Good |
2022 | The Sunday Runoff | Actor | 58 Average |
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2021 | 泥人魚 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2021 | Guilty Flag | Actor | 70 Good |
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2020 | North Light | Actor | 69 Fair |
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2019 | Seven Days War | Actor | Hitomi Nakayama (voice) | 59 Average |
2019 | Our Seven-Day War | Actor | Hitomi Nakayama (voice) | 60 Fair |
2019 | No Longer Human | Actor | Michiko Tsushima | 58 Average |
2017 | Ashiato Hime | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2016 | Her Love Boils Bathwater | Actor | Futaba Kono | 59 Average |
2016 | Too Young To Die! | Actor | Adult Hiromi Tezuka | 59 Average |
2016 | 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2015 | Pieta in the Toilet | Actor | Takuto's Mother | 59 Average |
2014 | Pale Moon | Actor | Rika Umezawa | 59 Average |
2014 | Gu Gu the Cat | Actor | Asako Kojima | 69 Fair |
2014 | Leaders | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2014 | Kiki's Delivery Service | Actor | Kokiri | 59 Average |
2013 | The After-Dinner Mysteries | Actor | Miho Kumazawa | 58 Average |
2013 | 神様のボート | Actor | 노지마 요코 | N/A N/A |
2012 | Blackboard | Actor | Shirahama Hisako | 70 Good |
2011 | Princess Go | Actor | 69 Fair |
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2011 | Princess Go | Actor | Chacha/Yododono | 69 Fair |
2010 | MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming | Actor | 58 Average |
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2010 | Oceans | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 64 Fair |
2009 | Gelatin Silver, Love | Actor | Assasin | 59 Average |
2008 | Dreaming Awake | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2007 | The Invitation from Cinema Orion | Actor | Toyo Toyota | 58 Average |
2006 | Hana | Actor | Osae | 59 Average |
2005 | The Book of the Dead | Actor | Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice) | 59 Average |
2005 | Ashura | Actor | Tsubaki | 58 Average |
2005 | Sunny Home | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2004 | 一番大切な人は誰ですか? | Actor | Nakamichi Toko | N/A N/A |
2004 | Tony Takitani | Actor | Konuma Eiko / Hisako | 60 Fair |
2004 | The Face of Jizo | Actor | Mitsue Fukuyoshi | 59 Average |
2004 | The Kiss of an Invisible Man | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2003 | Musashi | Actor | Oshino | 70 Good |
2002 | The Twilight Samurai | Actor | Tomoe Iinuma | 66 Fair |
2002 | Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso | Actor | Fumiyo Yoshinaga | 58 Average |
2002 | Utsutsu | Actor | Ikuko Obara | N/A N/A |
2001 | Peony Pavilion | Actor | Cui Hua | 59 Average |
2001 | Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project | Actor | Kido Kubo | 59 Average |
2000 | The Cabbie | Actor | Chuang Ching-wen | 59 Average |
2000 | Food Fight | Actor | Miyazono Saeka | 69 Fair |
1999 | Romance | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1999 | Genroku Ryoran | Actor | Aguri | 69 Fair |
1998 | Precious Time | Actor | Lisa Takimura | 69 Fair |
1998 | Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1996 | Concerto | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1995 | 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ? | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1995 | The Tale of Himeji Castle | Actor | 59 Average |
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1995 | Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu | Actor | 59 Average |
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1994 | 47 Ronin | Actor | Karu | 59 Average |
1994 | 結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1993 | Youth Peony Lantern | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Erotic Liaisons | Actor | Rie | 58 Average |
1992 | Don't Steal My Heart | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 | Actor | 59 Average |
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1992 | Basara: The Princess Goh | Actor | Princess Goh | 58 Average |
1992 | Tokyo Elevator Girl | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1990 | 同屋三分亲 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1990 | 梦中情人 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1990 | Defeat the Devil! | Actor | Maki Hoshigawa | N/A N/A |
1989 | Why Do I Choose? | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | Oshare dorobō | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | 青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙 | Actor | Haduki Mika | N/A N/A |
1988 | Seven Days War | Actor | Hitomi Nakayama | 58 Average |
Saiyûki | Actor | 三藏法师 | N/A N/A |