Rie Miyazawa
Acting • Born 1973-04-06
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).
Filmography
84 credits
Hana
Movie • 2006
Osae
47 Ronin
Movie • 1994
Karu
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Movie • 2010
The Book of the Dead
Movie • 2005
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
The Twilight Samurai
Movie • 2002
Tomoe Iinuma
Gelatin Silver, Love
Movie • 2009
Assasin
Tony Takitani
Movie • 2004
Konuma Eiko / Hisako
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Movie • 1992
Ashura
Movie • 2005
Tsubaki
Seven Days War
Movie • 1988
Hitomi Nakayama
Peony Pavilion
Movie • 2001
Cui Hua
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
Movie • 2023
Romi (voice)
The Sunday Runoff
Movie • 2022
The Moon
Movie • 2023
Yoko
Kiki's Delivery Service
Movie • 2014
Kokiri
Defeat the Devil!
Movie • 1990
Maki Hoshigawa
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
Movie • 2016
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
Movie • 1995
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Movie • 1998
Pale Moon
Movie • 2014
Rika Umezawa
The Face of Jizo
Movie • 2004
Mitsue Fukuyoshi
The Cabbie
Movie • 2000
Chuang Ching-wen
Dreaming Awake
Movie • 2008
I Am Makimoto
Movie • 2022
Miharu Imae
Erotic Liaisons
Movie • 1992
Rie
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie • 2001
Kido Kubo
Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie • 1992
Princess Goh
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Movie • 1995
Who Do I Choose?
Movie • 1989
Namiko
Utsutsu
Movie • 2002
Ikuko Obara
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Movie • 2007
Toyo Toyota
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Movie • 2013
Miho Kumazawa
Pieta in the Toilet
Movie • 2015
Takuto's Mother
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
Movie • 1995
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Movie • 2016
Futaba Kono
Too Young To Die!
Movie • 2016
Adult Hiromi Tezuka
No Longer Human
Movie • 2019
Michiko Tsushima
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Movie • 2002
Fumiyo Yoshinaga
Seven Days War
Movie • 2019
Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
Youth Peony Lantern
Movie • 1993
Don't Steal My Heart
Movie • 1992
Oshare dorobō
Movie • 1989
Saiyūki
Movie • 1993
三藏法师
Sunny Home
Movie • 2005
Self
オーランド
Movie • 2024
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
Movie • 2004
Independence of Japan
Movie • 2020
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
Movie • 2025
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
Movie • 2020
昭和から騒ぎ
Movie • 2025
Numb
Movie • 2026
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
TV • 2022
Maki no kata
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
TV • 2021
Eve (The First Woman)
Tokyo Elevator Girl
TV • 1992
Romance
TV • 1999
Genroku Ryoran
TV • 1999
Aguri
Precious Time
TV • 1998
Lisa Takimura
Musashi
TV • 2003
Oshino
Ashiato Hime
TV • 2017
Guilty Flag
TV • 2021
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
TV • 2004
Nakamichi Toko
Phoenix: Eden17
TV • 2023
Romi (voice)
Leaders
TV • 2014
Blackboard
TV • 2012
Hisako Shirahama
Princess Go
TV • 2011
Tears of a Swan
TV • 1989
Mika Hazuki
SMAP×SMAP
TV • 1996
Bistro Guest
Blackboard
TV • 2012
Shirahama Hisako
Asura
TV • 2025
Tsunako
The Naked Director
TV • 2019
Etsuko Takamiya
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
TV • 2005
Princess Go
TV • 2011
Chacha/Yododono
Gu Gu the Cat
TV • 2014
Asako Kojima
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
TV • 1994
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
TV • 2021
Food Fight
TV • 2000
Miyazono Saeka
神様のボート
TV • 2013
노지마 요코
Concerto
TV • 1996
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
TV • 1990
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
TV • 1990
North Light
TV • 2020
Human Specimens
TV • 2025
Rumi Ichinose
Queen of Mars
TV • 2025
あてなよる
TV • 2015