Rie Miyazawa
Acting
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).
Born: April 6, 1973
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Tsunako
as Romi (voice)
as Yoko
as Romi (voice)
as Miharu Imae
as Maki no kata
as Eve (The First Woman)
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
as Michiko Tsushima
as Etsuko Takamiya
as Futaba Kono
as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
as Takuto's Mother
as Rika Umezawa
as Asako Kojima
as Kokiri
as Miho Kumazawa
as 노지마 요코
as Hisako Shirahama
as Shirahama Hisako
as Chacha/Yododono
as Assasin
as Toyo Toyota
as Osae
as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
as Tsubaki
as Self
as Nakamichi Toko
as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
as Oshino
as Tomoe Iinuma
as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
as Ikuko Obara
as Cui Hua
as Kido Kubo
as Chuang Ching-wen
as Miyazono Saeka
as Aguri
as Lisa Takimura
as Bistro Guest
as Karu
as 三藏法师
as Rie
as Princess Goh
as Maki Hoshigawa
as Mika Hazuki
as Hitomi Nakayama