Rie Miyazawa
Acting
Born: Apr 06, 1973
From: Tokyo, Japan
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower | Romi (voice) | 2023 | 3.7 |
| The Moon | Yoko | 2023 | 5.4 |
| The Sunday Runoff | 2022 | 7.0 | |
| I Am Makimoto | Miharu Imae | 2022 | 7.5 |
| 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 | 2016 | — | |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | Kokiri | 2014 | 6.052 |
| Pale Moon | Rika Umezawa | 2014 | 6.5 |
| MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming | 2010 | 4.5 | |
| Gelatin Silver, Love | Assasin | 2009 | 6.5 |
| Dreaming Awake | 2008 | — | |
| Hana | Osae | 2006 | 6.6 |
| The Book of the Dead | Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice) | 2005 | 6.5 |
| Ashura | Tsubaki | 2005 | 5.318 |
| Tony Takitani | Konuma Eiko / Hisako | 2004 | 6.741 |
| The Face of Jizo | Mitsue Fukuyoshi | 2004 | 7.0 |
| The Twilight Samurai | Tomoe Iinuma | 2002 | 7.788 |
| Utsutsu | Ikuko Obara | 2002 | — |
| Peony Pavilion | Cui Hua | 2001 | 6.821 |
| Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project | Kido Kubo | 2001 | 7.25 |
| The Cabbie | Chuang Ching-wen | 2000 | 7.158 |
| Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel | 1998 | — | |
| The Miracle on a Christmas Night | 1995 | — | |
| The Tale of Himeji Castle | 1995 | 6.667 | |
| 47 Ronin | Karu | 1994 | 7.417 |
| Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 | 1992 | 8.0 | |
| Erotic Liaisons | Rie | 1992 | 4.571 |
| Basara: The Princess Goh | Princess Goh | 1992 | 6.885 |
| Defeat the Devil! | Maki Hoshigawa | 1990 | — |
| Who Do I Choose? | Namiko | 1989 | 7.5 |
| Seven Days War | Hitomi Nakayama | 1988 | 6.333 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1973 |
| From | Tokyo, Japan |