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Rie Miyazawa
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 Award
Born April 6, 1973 Tokyo, Japan1 movie on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026IntermissionSelf (archive footage)
- 2025Last Man -FIRST LOVE-Actor
- 2025リア王Actor
- 2025昭和から騒ぎActor
- 2024OrlandoActor
- 2023PHOENIX: Reminiscence of FlowerRomi (voice)
- 2023The MoonYoko
- 2022I Am MakimotoMiharu Imae
- 2022The Sunday RunoffActor
- 2020Independence of JapanActor
- 2020What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020Actor
- 2019Seven Days WarHitomi Nakayama (voice)
- 2019No Longer HumanMichiko Tsushima
- 2016Her Love Boils BathwaterFutaba Kono
- 2016Too Young To Die!Adult Hiromi Tezuka
- 2016疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜Actor
- 2015Pieta in the ToiletTakuto's Mother
- 2014Pale MoonRika Umezawa
- 2014Kiki's Delivery ServiceKokiri
- 2013The After-Dinner MysteriesMiho Kumazawa
- 2010MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop DreamingActor
- 2009Gelatin Silver, LoveAssasin
- 2008Dreaming AwakeActor
- 2007The Invitation from Cinema OrionToyo Toyota
- 2006HanaOsae
- 2005The Book of the DeadIratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
- 2005AshuraTsubaki
- 2005Sunny HomeSelf
- 2004Tony TakitaniKonuma Eiko / Hisako
- 2004The Face of JizoMitsue Fukuyoshi
- 2004The Kiss of an Invisible ManActor
- 2002The Twilight SamuraiTomoe Iinuma
- 2002Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu MensoFumiyo Yoshinaga
- 2002UtsutsuIkuko Obara
- 2001Peony PavilionCui Hua
- 2001Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus ProjectKido Kubo
- 2000The CabbieChuang Ching-wen
- 1998Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight HotelActor
- 1995The Miracle on a Christmas NightActor
- 1995The Tale of Himeji CastleActor
- 1995Kita no kuni kara '95 HimitsuActor
- 199447 RoninKaru
- 1993Youth Peony LanternActor
- 1993Saiyūki三藏法师
- 1992Erotic LiaisonsRie
- 1992Don't Steal My HeartActor
- 1992Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1Actor
- 1992Basara: The Princess GohPrincess Goh
- 1990Defeat the Devil!Maki Hoshigawa
- 1989Who Do I Choose?Namiko
- 1989Oshare dorobōActor
- 1988Seven Days WarHitomi Nakayama
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