Rie Miyazawa
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 6, 1973 (age 53)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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).
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Filmography
Numb
Movie
Intermission
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Ballad
TV · 2 eps
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
Movie
昭和から騒ぎ
Movie
リア王
Movie
Asura
TV · as Tsunako · 7 eps
Human Specimens
TV · as Rumi Ichinose · 5 eps
Queen of Mars
TV · as Suzuki Takima · 3 eps
Orlando
Movie
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
Movie · as Romi (voice)
The Moon
Movie · as Yoko
Phoenix: Eden17
TV · as Romi (voice) · 4 eps
The Sunday Runoff
Movie
I Am Makimoto
Movie · as Miharu Imae
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
TV · as Maki no kata · 48 eps
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
TV · as Eve (The First Woman) · 1 ep
Guilty Flag
TV · 20 eps
Matrilineal Family
TV · as Fumino Hamada · 2 eps
Independence of Japan
Movie
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
Movie
North Light
TV · 2 eps
No Longer Human
Movie · as Michiko Tsushima
Seven Days War
Movie · as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
The Naked Director
TV · as Etsuko Takamiya · 2 eps
Ashiato Hime
TV · 1 ep
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
Movie
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Movie · as Futaba Kono
Too Young To Die!
Movie · as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
Pieta in the Toilet
Movie · as Takuto's Mother
あてなよる
TV · 1 ep
Kiki's Delivery Service
Movie · as Kokiri
Pale Moon
Movie · as Rika Umezawa
Leaders
TV · as Yukino Higashiyama · 2 eps
Gu Gu the Cat
TV · as Asako Kojima · 9 eps
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Movie · as Miho Kumazawa
神様のボート
TV · as 노지마 요코 · 3 eps
Blackboard
TV · as Hisako Shirahama, Shirahama Hisako · 1 ep
Princess Go
TV · as Chacha / Yododono · 46 eps
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Movie
Gelatin Silver, Love
Movie · as Assasin
Dreaming Awake
Movie
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Movie · as Toyo Toyota
Hana
Movie · as Osae
The Book of the Dead
Movie · as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
Ashura
Movie · as Tsubaki
Sunny Home
Movie · as Self
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
TV · 1 ep
Tony Takitani
Movie · as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
The Face of Jizo
Movie · as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
Movie
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
TV · as Nakamichi Toko · 10 eps
Musashi
TV · as Oshino · 49 eps
The Twilight Samurai
Movie · as Tomoe Iinuma
Utsutsu
Movie · as Ikuko Obara
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Movie · as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
Peony Pavilion
Movie · as Cui Hua
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie · as Kido Kubo
The Cabbie
Movie · as Chuang Ching-wen
Food Fight
TV · as Miyazono Saeka · 11 eps
Romance
TV · 11 eps
Genroku Ryoran
TV · as Aguri · 49 eps
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Movie
Precious Time
TV · as Lisa Takimura · 12 eps
SMAP×SMAP
TV · as Bistro Guest · 1 ep
Concerto
TV · 10 eps
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
Movie
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Movie
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
Movie
47 Ronin
Movie · as Karu
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
TV · 1 ep
Youth Peony Lantern
Movie
Saiyūki
Movie · as 三藏法师
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Movie
Erotic Liaisons
Movie · as Rie
Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie · as Princess Goh
Don't Steal My Heart
Movie
Tokyo Elevator Girl
TV · 11 eps
Defeat the Devil!
Movie · as Maki Hoshigawa
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
TV · 11 eps
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
TV · 10 eps
Who Do I Choose?
Movie · as Namiko
Oshare dorobō
Movie
Tears of a Swan
TV · as Mika Hazuki · 25 eps
Seven Days War
Movie · as Hitomi Nakayama