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).
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as Tsunako
2023
as Romi (voice)
2023
as Yoko
2023
as Romi (voice)
2022
as Miharu Imae
2022
as Maki no kata
2022
2021
2021
as Eve (The First Woman)
2021
2020
2019
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
2019
as Michiko Tsushima
2019
as Etsuko Takamiya
2017
2016
as Futaba Kono
2016
as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
2016
2015
as Takuto's Mother
2014
as Rika Umezawa
2014
as Asako Kojima
2014
2014
as Kokiri
2013
as Miho Kumazawa
2013
as 노지마 요코
2012
as Hisako Shirahama
2012
as Shirahama Hisako
2011
2011
as Chacha/Yododono
2010
2010
as Narrator (voice)
2009
as Assasin
2008
2007
as Toyo Toyota
2006
as Osae
2005
as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
2005
as Tsubaki
2005
as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
2005
2004
as Nakamichi Toko
2004
as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
2003
as Oshino
2002
as Tomoe Iinuma
2002
as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
2002
as Ikuko Obara
2001
as Cui Hua
2001
as Kido Kubo
2000
as Chuang Ching-wen
2000
as Miyazono Saeka
1999
1999
as Aguri
1998
as Lisa Takimura
1998
1996
1996
as Bistro Guest
1995
1995
1995
1994
as Karu
1994
1993
1992
as Rie
1992
1992
1992
as Princess Goh
1992
1990
1990
1990
as Maki Hoshigawa
1989
1989
as Haduki Mika
1988
as Hitomi Nakayama