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).
83 acting credits
Acting · 83
SMAP×SMAP
1996
The Naked Director
2019
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
2021
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
2022
Guilty Flag
2021
Musashi
2003
Blackboard
2012
Asura
2025
Leaders
2014
Gu Gu the Cat
2014
Genroku Ryoran
1999
Princess Go
2011
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
2021
Human Specimens
2025
Phoenix: Eden17
2023
Precious Time
1998
North Light
2020
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992
Concerto
1996
Food Fight
2000
Tears of a Swan
1989
The Twilight Samurai
2002
Seven Days War
2019
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
1990
Kiki's Delivery Service
2014
No Longer Human
2019
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
1990
The Cabbie
2000
Hana
2006
Pale Moon
2014
47 Ronin
1994
Too Young To Die!
2016
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
2004
神様のボート
2013
Tony Takitani
2004
Queen of Mars
2025
Erotic Liaisons
1992
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
2025
Peony Pavilion
2001
Ashura
2005
あてなよる
2015
Basara: The Princess Goh
1992
Pieta in the Toilet
2015
Romance
1999
Seven Days War
1988
Ashiato Hime
2017
Dreaming Awake
2008
Gelatin Silver, Love
2009
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010
The After-Dinner Mysteries
2013
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001
Utsutsu
2002
Numb
2026
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994
I Am Makimoto
2022
The Moon
2023
Who Do I Choose?
1989
Youth Peony Lantern
1993
The Sunday Runoff
2022
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
2002
Defeat the Devil!
1990
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2020
Saiyūki
1993
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992
The Face of Jizo
2004
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
2023
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
1995
Oshare dorobō
1989
Don't Steal My Heart
1992
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998
The Book of the Dead
2005
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
2004
Independence of Japan
2020
Sunny Home
2005
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016
オーランド
2024
昭和から騒ぎ
2025
リア王
2025