Rie Miyazawa
Acting
1973-04-06 · Tokyo, Japan
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).
Filmography
TheatersNumb
2026 · Movie
TheatersIntermission
2026 · Movie
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
2025 · Movie
Human Specimens
2025 · Series
Queen of Mars
2025 · Series
リア王
2025 · Movie
昭和から騒ぎ
2025 · Movie
Asura
2025 · Series
オーランド
2024 · Movie
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
2023 · Movie
The Moon
2023 · Movie
Phoenix: Eden17
2023 · Series
I Am Makimoto
2022 · Movie
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
2022 · Series
The Sunday Runoff
2022 · Movie
Matrilineal Family
2021 · Series
Guilty Flag
2021 · Series
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
2021 · Series
Independence of Japan
2020 · Movie
North Light
2020 · Series
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2020 · Movie
Seven Days War
2019 · Movie
No Longer Human
2019 · Movie
The Naked Director
2019 · Series
Ashiato Hime
2017 · Series
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016 · Movie
Too Young To Die!
2016 · Movie
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016 · Movie
あてなよる
2015 · Series
Pieta in the Toilet
2015 · Movie
Pale Moon
2014 · Movie
Gu Gu the Cat
2014 · Series
Leaders
2014 · Series
Kiki's Delivery Service
2014 · Movie
The After-Dinner Mysteries
2013 · Movie
神様のボート
2013 · Series
Blackboard
2012 · Series
Princess Go
2011 · Series
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010 · Movie
Gelatin Silver, Love
2009 · Movie
Dreaming Awake
2008 · Movie
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007 · Movie
Hana
2006 · Movie
The Book of the Dead
2005 · Movie
Ashura
2005 · Movie
Sunny Home
2005 · Movie
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005 · Series
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
2004 · Series
Tony Takitani
2004 · Movie
The Face of Jizo
2004 · Movie
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
2004 · Movie
Musashi
2003 · Series
The Twilight Samurai
2002 · Movie
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
2002 · Movie
Utsutsu
2002 · Movie
Peony Pavilion
2001 · Movie
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001 · Movie
The Cabbie
2000 · Movie
Food Fight
2000 · Series
Romance
1999 · Series
Genroku Ryoran
1999 · Series
Precious Time
1998 · Series
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998 · Movie
Concerto
1996 · Series
SMAP×SMAP
1996 · Series
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
1995 · Movie
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995 · Movie
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995 · Movie
47 Ronin
1994 · Movie
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994 · Series
Youth Peony Lantern
1993 · Movie
Saiyūki
1993 · Movie
Erotic Liaisons
1992 · Movie
Don't Steal My Heart
1992 · Movie
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992 · Movie
Basara: The Princess Goh
1992 · Movie
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992 · Series
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
1990 · Series
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
1990 · Series
Defeat the Devil!
1990 · Movie
Who Do I Choose?
1989 · Movie
Oshare dorobō
1989 · Movie
Tears of a Swan
1989 · Series
Seven Days War
1988 · Movie