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).
Acted in
Asura
2025
as Tsunako
Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
2023
as Romi (voice)
The Moon
2023
as Yoko
Phoenix: Eden17
2023
as Romi (voice)
I Am Makimoto
2022
as Miharu Imae
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
2022
as Maki no kata
The Sunday Runoff
2022
Guilty Flag
2021
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
2021
as Eve (The First Woman)
Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
2021
North Light
2020
Seven Days War
2019
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
No Longer Human
2019
as Michiko Tsushima
The Naked Director
2019
as Etsuko Takamiya
Ashiato Hime
2017
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016
as Futaba Kono
Too Young To Die!
2016
as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016
Pieta in the Toilet
2015
as Takuto's Mother
Pale Moon
2014
as Rika Umezawa
Gu Gu the Cat
2014
as Asako Kojima
Leaders
2014
Kiki's Delivery Service
2014
as Kokiri
The After-Dinner Mysteries
2013
as Miho Kumazawa
神様のボート
2013
as 노지마 요코
Blackboard
2012
as Hisako Shirahama
Blackboard
2012
as Shirahama Hisako
Princess Go
2011
Princess Go
2011
as Chacha/Yododono
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010
Oceans
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Gelatin Silver, Love
2009
as Assasin
Dreaming Awake
2008
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
as Toyo Toyota
Hana
2006
as Osae
The Book of the Dead
2005
as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
Ashura
2005
as Tsubaki
Tony Takitani
2005
as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
2004
as Nakamichi Toko
The Face of Jizo
2004
as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
Musashi
2003
as Oshino
The Twilight Samurai
2002
as Tomoe Iinuma
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
2002
as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
Utsutsu
2002
as Ikuko Obara
Peony Pavilion
2001
as Cui Hua
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001
as Kido Kubo
The Cabbie
2000
as Chuang Ching-wen
Food Fight
2000
as Miyazono Saeka
Romance
1999
Genroku Ryoran
1999
as Aguri
Precious Time
1998
as Lisa Takimura
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998
Concerto
1996
SMAP×SMAP
1996
as Bistro Guest
聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
1995
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995
47 Ronin
1994
as Karu
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994
Youth Peony Lantern
1993
Erotic Liaisons
1992
as Rie
Don't Steal My Heart
1992
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992
Basara: The Princess Goh
1992
as Princess Goh
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992
同屋三分亲
1990
梦中情人
1990
Defeat the Devil!
1990
as Maki Hoshigawa
Why Do I Choose?
1989
青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙
1989
as Haduki Mika
Seven Days War
1988
as Hitomi Nakayama
