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).
Acting
Movie
The Twilight Samurai
as Tomoe Iinuma
2002
TV
The Naked Director
as Etsuko Takamiya
2019
Movie
Tony Takitani
as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
2004
Movie
Seven Days War
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
2019
Movie
Kiki's Delivery Service
as Kokiri
2014
Movie
Hana
as Osae
2006
Movie
Her Love Boils Bathwater
as Futaba Kono
2016
Movie
Pale Moon
as Rika Umezawa
2014
Movie
Too Young To Die!
as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
2016
TV
Asura
as Tsunako
2025
Movie
No Longer Human
as Michiko Tsushima
2019
Movie
47 Ronin
as Karu
1994
Movie
Ashura
as Tsubaki
2005
Movie
Pieta in the Toilet
as Takuto's Mother
2015
Movie
The Cabbie
as Chuang Ching-wen
2000
TV
Phoenix: Eden17
as Romi (voice)
2023
Movie
Peony Pavilion
as Cui Hua
2001
Movie
Basara: The Princess Goh
as Princess Goh
1992
TV
Guilty Flag
2021
Movie
The After-Dinner Mysteries
as Miho Kumazawa
2013
TV
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
as Maki no kata
2022
Movie
The Face of Jizo
as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
2004
Movie
Erotic Liaisons
as Rie
1992
TV
Musashi
as Oshino
2003