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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).


Aliases
  • Miyazawa Rie
English français 日本語

Hana

2006
as Osae

ぼくらの七日間戦争

2019
as Hitomi Nakayama

Peony Pavilion

2001
as Cui Hua

47 Ronin

1994
as Karu

Shisha no sho

2005
as Iratsume of Fujiwara

TOO YOUNG TO DIE! 若くして死ぬ

2016
as Hiromi Tezuka (adult)

2023
as 堂島洋子

Seven Days' War

1988
as Hitomi Nakayama

Ashura

2005
as Tsubaki

No Longer Human

2019
as Michiko Tsushima

たそがれ清兵衛

2002
as Tomoe Iinuma

Tenshu monogatari

1995
as Kame-hime

Tony Takitani

2005
as Konuma Eiko, Hisako

Orion-za kara no shôtaijô

2007
as Toyo Toyota - young

Océans

2009
as Narrator (voice: Japanese version)

トイレのピエタ

2015
as Takuto's mother

Gô-hime

1992
as Princess Goh

アイ・アム まきもと

2022
as 今江みはる

Yume no mani mani

2008
as Junko Nakano

Utsutsu

2002
as Ikuko Obara

運転手之戀

2000
as Officer Zhuang Jingwen

Pale Moon

2014
as Rika Umezawa