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Rie Miyazawa
Tokyo, Japan
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…
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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).
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2026
Numb
Movie
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2026
Intermission
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
悪魔の手毬唄
TV show
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2025
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
Movie
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2025
Human Specimens
TV show Rumi Ichinose
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2025
Queen of Mars
TV show
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2025
リア王
Movie
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2025
昭和から騒ぎ
Movie
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2025
Asura
TV show Tsunako
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2024
Orlando
Movie
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2023
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
Movie Romi (voice)
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2023
The Moon
Movie Yoko
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2023
Phoenix: Eden17
TV show Romi (voice)
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2022
I Am Makimoto
Movie Miharu Imae
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2022
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
TV show Maki no kata
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2022
The Sunday Runoff
Movie
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2021
Matrilineal Family
TV show Fumino Hamada
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2021
Guilty Flag
TV show
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2021
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
TV show Eve (The First Woman)
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2020
Independence of Japan
Movie
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2020
North Light
TV show
- 2020
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2019
Seven Days War
Movie Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
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2019
No Longer Human
Movie Michiko Tsushima
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2019
The Naked Director
TV show Etsuko Takamiya
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2017
Ashiato Hime
TV show
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2016
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Movie Futaba Kono
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2016
Too Young To Die!
Movie Adult Hiromi Tezuka
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2016
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
Movie
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2015
あてなよる
TV show
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2015
Pieta in the Toilet
Movie Takuto's Mother
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2014
Pale Moon
Movie Rika Umezawa
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2014
Gu Gu the Cat
TV show Asako Kojima
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2014
Leaders
TV show Yukino Higashiyama
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2014
Kiki's Delivery Service
Movie Kokiri
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2013
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Movie Miho Kumazawa
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2013
神様のボート
TV show 노지마 요코
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2012
Blackboard
TV show Hisako Shirahama
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2011
Princess Go
TV show Chacha / Yododono
- 2010
