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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 6, 1973
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- 宮沢 りえ
- ریه میازاوا
Rie Miyazawa
1.9 Popularity
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).
Known For
7.9
Tsunako
Asura
2025
0.0
オーランド
2024
3.5
Romi (voice)
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
2023
5.5
Yoko
The Moon
2023
6.8
Romi (voice)
Phoenix: Eden17
2023
7.5
Miharu Imae
I Am Makimoto
2022
8.3
Maki no kata
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
2022
6.5
The Sunday Runoff
2022
7.7
Guilty Flag
2021
6.7
Eve (The First Woman)
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
2021
Credits
Asura
as Tsunako
2025
7.9
オーランド
2024
0.0
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
as Romi (voice)
2023
3.5
The Moon
as Yoko
2023
5.5
Phoenix: Eden17
as Romi (voice)
2023
6.8
I Am Makimoto
as Miharu Imae
2022
7.5
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
as Maki no kata
2022
8.3
The Sunday Runoff
2022
6.5
Guilty Flag
2021
7.7
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
as Eve (The First Woman)
2021
6.7
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
2021
10.0
Independence of Japan
2020
0.0
North Light
2020
7.5
Seven Days War
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
2019
6.6
No Longer Human
as Michiko Tsushima
2019
6.2
The Naked Director
as Etsuko Takamiya
2019
7.3
Ashiato Hime
2017
0.0
Her Love Boils Bathwater
as Futaba Kono
2016
7.3
Too Young To Die!
as Adult Hiromi Tezuka
2016
6.4
🎬
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016
0.0
Pieta in the Toilet
as Takuto's Mother
2015
6.8
Pale Moon
as Rika Umezawa
2014
6.3
Gu Gu the Cat
as Asako Kojima
2014
6.0
Leaders
2014
0.0
Kiki's Delivery Service
as Kokiri
2014
6.1
The After-Dinner Mysteries
as Miho Kumazawa
2013
5.6
神様のボート
as 노지마 요코
2013
0.0
Blackboard
as Hisako Shirahama
2012
8.0
Blackboard
as Shirahama Hisako
2012
8.0
Princess Go
2011
8.3
Princess Go
as Chacha/Yododono
2011
8.3
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010
4.5
Oceans
as Narrator (voice)
2010
7.4
Gelatin Silver, Love
as Assasin
2009
6.5
🎬
Dreaming Awake
2008
0.0
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Toyo Toyota
2007
6.5
Hana
as Osae
2006
6.6
The Book of the Dead
as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
2005
6.2
Ashura
as Tsubaki
2005
5.1
Sunny Home
as Self
2005
0.0
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005
0.0
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
as Nakamichi Toko
2004
0.0
Tony Takitani
as Konuma Eiko / Hisako
2004
6.8
The Face of Jizo
as Mitsue Fukuyoshi
2004
6.7
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
2004
0.0
Musashi
as Oshino
2003
8.3
The Twilight Samurai
as Tomoe Iinuma
2002
7.8
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
as Fumiyo Yoshinaga
2002
5.0
Utsutsu
as Ikuko Obara
2002
0.0
Peony Pavilion
as Cui Hua
2001
6.7
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Kido Kubo
2001
7.3
The Cabbie
as Chuang Ching-wen
2000
7.0
Food Fight
as Miyazono Saeka
2000
8.0
Romance
1999
0.0
Genroku Ryoran
as Aguri
1999
7.7
Precious Time
as Lisa Takimura
1998
7.8
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998
0.0
Concerto
1996
0.0
SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro Guest
1996
8.5
聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
1995
0.0
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
6.5
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995
6.0
47 Ronin
as Karu
1994
7.5
🎬
結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994
0.0
Youth Peony Lantern
1993
0.0
Saiyūki
as 三藏法师
1993
0.0
Erotic Liaisons
as Rie
1992
3.8
Don't Steal My Heart
1992
0.0
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992
6.0
Basara: The Princess Goh
as Princess Goh
1992
6.8
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992
0.0
同屋三分亲
1990
0.0
梦中情人
1990
0.0
Defeat the Devil!
as Maki Hoshigawa
1990
0.0
Why Do I Choose?
1989
0.0
Oshare dorobō
1989
0.0
Tears of a Swan
as Mika Hazuki
1989
0.0
Seven Days War
as Hitomi Nakayama
1988
6.0