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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).


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Born:
Apr 6, 1973 In Tokyo, Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
71
First Appeared:
In the movie Seven Days War 1988-08-13
Latest Project:
Series Like Asura 2025
Known For
Filmography
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