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).
Movie | Ashura no Gotoku | 2025 | |
Series | Like Asura | 2025 | |
Series | Phoenix: Eden17 | Romi (voice) | 2023-09-13 |
Movie | The Moon | Yoko | 2023-10-13 |
Movie | Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower | Romi (voice) | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | I Am Makimoto | Miharu Imae | 2022-09-30 |
Series | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | Maki no kata | 2022-01-09 |
Movie | The Sunday Runoff | Unknown | 2022-01-07 |
Series | FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS | Eve (The First Woman) | 2021-03-29 |
Series | Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~ | Unknown | 2021-01-08 |
Series | Guilty Flag | Unknown | 2021-10-10 |
Series | North Light | 2020-12-12 | |
Series | The Naked Director | Etsuko Takamiya | 2019-08-08 |
Movie | Seven Days War | Hitomi Nakayama (voice) | 2019-12-13 |
Movie | No Longer Human | Michiko Tsushima | 2019-09-13 |
Series | Ashiato Hime | Unknown | 2017-01-18 |
Movie | 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜 | 2016-01-02 | |
Movie | Too Young To Die! | Adult Hiromi Tezuka | 2016-06-25 |
Movie | Her Love Boils Bathwater | Futaba Kono | 2016-10-29 |
Movie | Pieta in the Toilet | Takuto's Mother | 2015-06-06 |
Movie | Kiki's Delivery Service | Kokiri | 2014-03-01 |
Series | Leaders | 2014-03-22 | |
Series | Gu Gu the Cat | Asako Kojima | 2014-10-18 |
Movie | Pale Moon | Rika Umezawa | 2014-11-15 |
Movie | The After-Dinner Mysteries | Miho Kumazawa | 2013-10-30 |
Series | Blackboard | Shirahama Hisako | 2012-04-05 |
Series | Princess Go | 2011-01-09 | |
Movie | MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming | 2010-04-29 | |
Movie | Oceans | Narrator (voice: Japanese version) | 2010-01-22 |
Movie | Gelatin Silver, Love | Assasin | 2009-03-07 |
Movie | Dreaming Awake | 2008-10-18 | |
Movie | The Invitation from Cinema Orion | Toyo Toyota | 2007-11-03 |
Movie | Hana | Osae | 2006-06-03 |
Series | Natsumeke no Shokutaku | Unknown | 2005-01-05 |
Movie | Ashura | Tsubaki | 2005-04-16 |
Movie | The Book of the Dead | Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice) | 2005-07-01 |
Movie | Tony Takitani | Konuma Eiko / Hisako | 2005-01-27 |
Movie | The Face of Jizo | Mitsue Fukuyoshi | 2004-07-31 |
Series | 一番大切な人は誰ですか? | Nakamichi Toko | 2004-10-13 |
Series | Musashi | Oshino | 2003-01-05 |
Movie | Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso | Fumiyo Yoshinaga | 2002-08-27 |
Movie | The Twilight Samurai | Tomoe Iinuma | 2002-11-02 |
Movie | Utsutsu | Ikuko Obara | 2002-06-01 |
Movie | Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project | Kido Kubo | 2001-08-18 |
Movie | Peony Pavilion | Cui Hua | 2001-12-07 |
Movie | The Cabbie | Officer Zhuang Jingwen | 2000-10-10 |
Series | Genroku Ryoran | Aguri | 1999-01-10 |
Series | Romance | Unknown | 1999-04-12 |
Movie | Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel | Unknown | 1998-02-21 |
Series | God, Please Give Me More Time | Lisa Takimura | 1998-07-07 |
Series | Concerto | Unknown | 1996-10-11 |
Series | SMAP×SMAP | Bistro Guest | 1996-04-15 |
Movie | 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ? | 1995-12-23 | |
Movie | Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu | 1995-06-09 | |
Movie | The Tale of Himeji Castle | Unknown | 1995-09-09 |
Series | 結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく | 1994-05-29 | |
Movie | 47 Ronin | Karu | 1994-10-22 |
Movie | Youth Peony Lantern | Unknown | 1993-08-21 |
Series | Tokyo Elevator Girl | Unknown | 1992-01-10 |
Movie | Erotic Liaisons | Rie | 1992-10-17 |
Movie | Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 | Unknown | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Basara: Princess Goh | Princess Goh | 1992-04-11 |
Movie | Defeat the Devil! | Maki Hoshigawa | 1990-01-06 |
Series | 青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙 | Haduki Mika | 1989-04-10 |
Movie | Why Do I Choose? | 1989-08-26 | |
Movie | Seven Days War | Hitomi Nakayama | 1988-08-13 |