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).
Series | Like Asura | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Like Asura | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Moon | Yoko | 2023-10-13 |
Series | Phoenix: Eden17 | Romi (voice) | 2023-09-13 |
Movie | Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower | Romi (voice) | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | The Sunday Runoff | Unknown | 2022-01-07 |
Series | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | Maki no kata | 2022-01-09 |
Movie | I Am Makimoto | Miharu Imae | 2022-09-30 |
Series | Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~ | Unknown | 2021-01-08 |
Series | Guilty Flag | 2021-10-10 | |
Series | FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS | Eve (The First Woman) | 2021-03-29 |
Series | North Light | Unknown | 2020-12-12 |
Series | The Naked Director | Etsuko Takamiya | 2019-08-08 |
Movie | No Longer Human | Michiko Tsushima | 2019-09-13 |
Movie | Seven Days War | Hitomi Nakayama (voice) | 2019-12-13 |
Series | Ashiato Hime | 2017-01-18 | |
Movie | 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 | Unknown | 2016-01-02 |
Movie | Too Young To Die! | Adult Hiromi Tezuka | 2016-06-25 |
Movie | Her Love Boils Bathwater | Futaba Kono | 2016-10-29 |
Movie | Pieta in the Toilet | Takuto's Mother | 2015-06-06 |
Series | Leaders | Unknown | 2014-03-22 |
Movie | Kiki's Delivery Service | Kokiri | 2014-03-01 |
Series | Gu Gu the Cat | Asako Kojima | 2014-10-18 |
Movie | Pale Moon | Rika Umezawa | 2014-11-15 |
Series | 神様のボート | 노지마 요코 | 2013-03-10 |
Movie | The After-Dinner Mysteries | Miho Kumazawa | 2013-10-30 |
Series | Blackboard | Shirahama Hisako | 2012-04-05 |
Series | Princess Go | 2011-01-09 | |
Movie | Oceans | Narrator (voice) | 2010-01-22 |
Movie | MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming | Unknown | 2010-04-29 |
Movie | Gelatin Silver, Love | Assasin | 2009-03-07 |
Movie | Dreaming Awake | Unknown | 2008-10-18 |
Movie | The Invitation from Cinema Orion | Toyo Toyota | 2007-11-03 |
Movie | Hana | Osae | 2006-06-03 |
Movie | Tony Takitani | Konuma Eiko / Hisako | 2005-01-27 |
Series | Natsumeke no Shokutaku | Unknown | 2005-01-05 |
Movie | Ashura | Tsubaki | 2005-04-16 |
Movie | The Book of the Dead | Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice) | 2005-07-01 |
Movie | The Face of Jizo | Mitsue Fukuyoshi | 2004-07-31 |
Series | 一番大切な人は誰ですか? | Nakamichi Toko | 2004-10-13 |
Series | Musashi | Oshino | 2003-01-05 |
Movie | Utsutsu | Ikuko Obara | 2002-06-01 |
Movie | Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso | Fumiyo Yoshinaga | 2002-08-27 |
Movie | The Twilight Samurai | Tomoe Iinuma | 2002-11-02 |
Movie | Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project | Kido Kubo | 2001-08-18 |
Movie | Peony Pavilion | Cui Hua | 2001-12-07 |
Movie | The Cabbie | Chuang Ching-wen | 2000-10-10 |
Series | Food Fight | Miyazono Saeka | 2000-07-01 |
Series | Genroku Ryoran | Aguri | 1999-01-10 |
Series | Romance | 1999-04-12 | |
Movie | Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel | 1998-02-21 | |
Series | Precious Time | Lisa Takimura | 1998-07-07 |
Series | SMAP×SMAP | Bistro Guest | 1996-04-15 |
Series | Concerto | 1996-10-11 | |
Movie | Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu | 1995-06-09 | |
Movie | The Tale of Himeji Castle | Unknown | 1995-09-09 |
Movie | 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ? | 1995-12-23 | |
Series | 結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく | Unknown | 1994-05-29 |
Movie | 47 Ronin | Karu | 1994-10-22 |
Movie | Youth Peony Lantern | Unknown | 1993-08-21 |
Movie | Basara: The Princess Goh | Princess Goh | 1992-04-11 |
Series | Tokyo Elevator Girl | Unknown | 1992-01-10 |
Movie | Don't Steal My Heart | 1992-09-29 | |
Movie | Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 | 1992-05-22 | |
Movie | Erotic Liaisons | Rie | 1992-10-17 |
Movie | Defeat the Devil! | Maki Hoshigawa | 1990-01-06 |
Series | 梦中情人 | 1990-01-11 | |
Series | 同屋三分亲 | Unknown | 1990-10-30 |
Series | 青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙 | Haduki Mika | 1989-04-10 |
Movie | Why Do I Choose? | 1989-08-26 | |
Movie | Seven Days War | Hitomi Nakayama | 1988-08-13 |