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).
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Films (53)
Numb
2026
Intermission
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
2025
リア王
2025
昭和から騒ぎ
2025
Orlando
2024
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
2023 · Romi (voice)
The Moon
2023 · Yoko
I Am Makimoto
2022 · Miharu Imae
The Sunday Runoff
2022
Independence of Japan
2020
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2020
7 jours
2019 · Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
No Longer Human
2019 · Michiko Tsushima
Her Love boils Bathwater
2016 · Futaba Kono
Too Young To Die!
2016 · Adult Hiromi Tezuka
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016
Pieta in the Toilet
2015 · Takuto's Mother
Pale Moon
2014 · Rika Umezawa
Kiki, la petite sorcière
2014 · Kokiri
The After Dinner Mysteries
2013 · Miho Kumazawa
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010
Gelatin Silver, Love
2009 · Assasin
Dreaming Awake
2008
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007 · Toyo Toyota
Hana
2006 · Osae
The Book of the Dead
2005 · Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
Ashura, la reine des démons
2005 · Tsubaki
Sunny Home
2005 · Self
Tony Takitani
2004 · Konuma Eiko / Hisako
The Face of Jizo
2004 · Mitsue Fukuyoshi
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
2004
Le Samouraï du crépuscule
2002 · Tomoe Iinuma
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
2002 · Fumiyo Yoshinaga
Utsutsu
2002 · Ikuko Obara
Peony Pavilion
2001 · Cui Hua
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001 · Kido Kubo
The Cabbie
2000 · Chuang Ching-wen
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
1995
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995
47 Ronin
1994 · Karu
Youth Peony Lantern
1993
Saiyūki
1993 · 三藏法师
Erotic Liaisons
1992 · Rie
Don't Steal My Heart
1992
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992
Basara: The Princess Goh
1992 · Princess Goh
Defeat the Devil!
1990 · Maki Hoshigawa
Who Do I Choose?
1989 · Namiko
Oshare dorobō
1989
Seven Days War
1988 · Hitomi Nakayama
Séries (32)
The Devil's Ballad
2026
Human Specimens
2025 · Rumi Ichinose
Queen of Mars
2025 · Suzuki Takima
Asura
2025 · Tsunako
EDEN17
2023 · Romi (voice)
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
2022 · Maki no kata
Matrilineal Family
2021 · Fumino Hamada
Guilty Flag
2021
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
2021 · Eve (The First Woman)
North Light
2020
The Naked Director
2019 · Etsuko Takamiya
Ashiato Hime
2017
あてなよる
2015
Gu Gu the Cat
2014 · Asako Kojima
Leaders
2014 · Yukino Higashiyama
神様のボート
2013 · 노지마 요코
Blackboard
2012 · Hisako Shirahama, Shirahama Hisako
Princess Go
2011 · Chacha / Yododono
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
2004 · Nakamichi Toko
Musashi
2003 · Oshino
Food Fight
2000 · Miyazono Saeka
Romance
1999
Genroku Ryoran
1999 · Aguri
Precious Time
1998 · Lisa Takimura
Concerto
1996
SMAP×SMAP
1996 · Bistro Guest
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
1990
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
1990
Tears of a Swan
1989 · Mika Hazuki