Rie Miyazawa
ActingRie 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
The Twilight Samurai
Tomoe Iinuma
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kokiri
No Longer Human
Michiko Tsushima
47 Ronin
Karu
I Am Makimoto
Miharu Imae
Hana
Osae
Pale Moon
Rika Umezawa
Ashura
Tsubaki
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Futaba Kono
Filmography — Acting
The Twilight Samurai
Tomoe Iinuma
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kokiri
No Longer Human
Michiko Tsushima
47 Ronin
Karu
I Am Makimoto
Miharu Imae
Hana
Osae
Pale Moon
Rika Umezawa
Ashura
Tsubaki
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Futaba Kono
Erotic Liaisons
Rie
The Cabbie
Chuang Ching-wen
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Miho Kumazawa
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama
Basara: The Princess Goh
Princess Goh
Tony Takitani
Konuma Eiko / Hisako
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Pieta in the Toilet
Takuto's Mother
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
Too Young To Die!
Adult Hiromi Tezuka
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Fumiyo Yoshinaga
Utsutsu
Ikuko Obara
Peony Pavilion
Cui Hua
Who Do I Choose?
Namiko
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Toyo Toyota
The Moon
Yoko
Defeat the Devil!
Maki Hoshigawa
The Sunday Runoff
The Book of the Dead
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
Youth Peony Lantern
The Face of Jizo
Mitsue Fukuyoshi
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Saiyūki
三藏法师
Dreaming Awake
Numb
Oshare dorobō
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
Romi (voice)
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Kido Kubo
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
Gelatin Silver, Love
Assasin
Don't Steal My Heart
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
オーランド
Sunny Home
Self
Independence of Japan
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
昭和から騒ぎ