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Rie Miyazawa

Rie Miyazawa

Known For Acting
Birthday Apr 06, 1973 (52)
Birthplace Tokyo, Japan
Popularity 3 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025
Entry Date Aug 09, 2025
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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, an ... d 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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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Genroku Ryoran

as Aguri

Episodes: 49

First Aired: Jan 10, 1999

Musashi

as Oshino

Episodes: 49

First Aired: Jan 05, 2003

The 13 Lords of the Shogun

as Maki no kata

Episodes: 48

First Aired: Jan 09, 2022

Princess Go

as Chacha/Yododono

Episodes: 46

First Aired: Jan 09, 2011

Tears of a Swan

as Mika Hazuki

Episodes: 25

First Aired: Apr 10, 1989

Precious Time

as Lisa Takimura

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Jul 07, 1998

Food Fight

as Miyazono Saeka

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jul 01, 2000

一番大切な人は誰ですか?

as Nakamichi Toko

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Oct 13, 2004

Gu Gu the Cat

as Asako Kojima

Episodes: 9

First Aired: Oct 18, 2014

Asura

as Tsunako

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Jan 09, 2025

Phoenix: Eden17

as Romi (voice)

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Sep 13, 2023

Blackboard

as Shirahama Hisako

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Apr 05, 2012

神様のボート

as 노지마 요코

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 10, 2013

The Naked Director

as Etsuko Takamiya

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 08, 2019

FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS

as Eve (The First Woman)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 29, 2021

Blackboard

as Hisako Shirahama

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 05, 2012

Princess Go

Episodes: 46

First Aired: Jan 09, 2011

Guilty Flag

Episodes: 20

First Aired: Oct 10, 2021

Tokyo Elevator Girl

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jan 10, 1992

Romance

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Apr 12, 1999

梦中情人

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jan 11, 1990

Concerto

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Oct 11, 1996

いつか誰かと朝帰りッ

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Oct 30, 1990

Leaders

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Mar 22, 2014

North Light

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 12, 2020

Ashiato Hime

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 18, 2017

SMAP×SMAP

as Bistro Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 15, 1996

Natsumeke no Shokutaku

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 05, 2005

結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 29, 1994

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 08, 2021

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2024 7 36 59 16
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2024 9 23 40 12
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2024 12 43 76 27
2025 1 32 56 12
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2025 3 11 26 1
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2025 8 3 11 1
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