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Rie Miyazawa
ActorBorn April 6, 1973 (51 years)
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).
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
| 2025 | Asura (TV Series) · as Tsunako |
| 2023 | Tsuki · as Yoko |
| 2023 | Phoenix: Eden17 (TV Series) · as Romi (voice) |
| 2022 | I Am Makimoto · as Miharu Imae |
| 2022 | The 13 Lords of the Shogun (TV Series) · as Maki No Kata |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | Guilty Flag (TV Series) |
| 2021 | FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS (TV Series) · as Eve (the First Woman) |
| 2020 | Independence of Japan · as Masako Shirasu |
| 2020 | Kinou Nani Tabeta? 2020 Happy New Year Special · as Mitani Mami |
| 2019 | 7 Days War · as Hitomi Nakayama (voice) |
| 2019 | No Longer Human · as Michiko Tsushima |
| 2019 | The Naked Director (TV Series) · as Etsuko Takamiya |
| 2016 | Her Love Boils Bathwater · as Futaba Kono |
| 2016 | Too Young to Die! Wakakushite shinu · as Adult Hiromi Tezuka |
| 2015 | Pieta in the Toilet · as Takuto's Mother |
| 2014 | Pale Moon · as Rika Umezawa |
| 2014 | Good-Good, the Fortune Cat (TV Series) · as Asako Kojima |
| 2014 | Kiki's Delivery Service · as Kokiri |
| 2013 | The After-Dinner Mysteries · as Miho Kumazawa |
| 2011 | Gou (TV Series) · as Chacha |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | Gelatin Silver, Love · as Assasin |
| 2008 | Oceans · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | The Invitation from Cinema Orion · as Toyo Toyota |
| 2006 | Hana · as Osae |
| 2005 | The Book of the Dead · as Iratsume Of Fujiwara (voice) |
| 2005 | Ashura-jô no hitomi · as Tsubaki |
| 2004 | Tony Takitani · as Konuma Eiko / Hisako |
| 2004 | The Face of Jizo · as Mitsue Fukuyoshi |
| 2003 | Musashi (TV Series) · as Oshino |
| 2002 | The Twilight Samurai · as Tomoe Iinuma |
| 2001 | Peony Pavilion · as Cui Hua |
| 2001 | Free and Easy 12: Biggest Paid Vacation in History · as Kido Kubo |
| 2000 | The Cabbie · as Chuang Ching-Wen |
| 1998 | God, Please Give Me More Time (TV Series) · as Lisa Takimura |
| 1994 | 47 Ronin · as Karu |
| 1992 | Erotic Liaisons · as Rie |
| 1992 | Gô-hime · as Princess Goh |
| 1990 | Akuma o yattsukero! · as Maki Hoshigawa |
| 1988 | Bokura no nanoka-kan sensô · as Hitomi Nakayama |