Rie Miyazawa

Birthday:

04/06/1973

Place of birth:

Tokyo, Japan:

Biography:

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).



Credits

Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower (2023)
Romi (voice)
The Moon (2023)
Yoko
I Am Makimoto (2022)
Miharu Imae
The Sunday Runoff (2022)
Seven Days War (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's Delivery Service (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 (2005)
Tsubaki
Tony Takitani (2005)
Konuma Eiko / Hisako
The Face of Jizo (2004)
Mitsue Fukuyoshi
The Twilight Samurai (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)
Officer Zhuang Jingwen
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel (1998)
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)
Karu
Youth Peony Lantern (1993)
Erotic Liaisons (1992)
Rie
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 (1992)
Basara: Princess Goh (1992)
Princess Goh
Defeat the Devil! (1990)
Maki Hoshigawa
Why Do I Choose? (1989)
Seven Days War (1988)
Hitomi Nakayama
Ashura no Gotoku ()