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 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).
The Twilight Samurai
as Tomoe IinumaSeibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...
Movie page
Seven Days War
as Hitomi Nakayama (voice)In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend...
Movie page
Kiki's Delivery Service
as KokiriA young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She...
Movie page
No Longer Human
as Michiko TsushimaThe story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and...
Movie page
Her Love Boils Bathwater
as Futaba KonoA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal....
Movie page
Hana
as OsaeIn a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to...
Movie page
Pieta in the Toilet
as Takuto's MotherHiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office...
Movie page
Tony Takitani
as Konuma Eiko / HisakoWhen technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for...
Movie page
Too Young To Die!
as Adult Hiromi TezukaAfter dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band...
Movie page
Pale Moon
as Rika UmezawaDaily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring...
Movie page
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
as uncreditedMusical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Movie page
47 Ronin
as KaruKon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is...
Movie page
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Kido KuboMr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to...
Movie page
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
as uncreditedThere is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with...
Movie page
I Am Makimoto
as Miharu ImaeSou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main...
Movie page
Seven Days War
as Hitomi NakayamaA community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to...
Movie page
The After-Dinner Mysteries
as Miho KumazawaKageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko...
Movie page
Ashura
as TsubakiAdapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war...
Movie page
The Cabbie
as Officer Zhuang JingwenAfter falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he...
Movie page
The Face of Jizo
as Mitsue FukuyoshiBased on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima....
Movie page
Peony Pavilion
as Cui HuaIn the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin...
Movie page
聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
as uncreditedA foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato...
Movie page
The Book of the Dead
as Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her...
Movie page
Gelatin Silver, Love
as AssasinThe story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the...
Movie page
The Moon
as YokoYoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having...
Movie page
Basara: Princess Goh
as Princess GohFuruta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no...
Movie page
Erotic Liaisons
as RieA low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two...
Movie page
Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
as Romi (voice)From time immemorial to the age of space colonization, there is one legend that has stayed...
Movie page
Utsutsu
as Ikuko ObaraA mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him,...
Movie page
Youth Peony Lantern
as uncreditedBased on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the...
Movie page
The Sunday Runoff
as uncreditedA comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of...
Movie page
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Toyo ToyotaBased on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The...
Movie page
The Tale of Himeji Castle
as uncreditedA young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a...
Movie page
Why Do I Choose?
as uncreditedWho Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
Movie page
Defeat the Devil!
as Maki HoshigawaA one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Movie page
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
as uncreditedThe second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Movie page
The Naked Director
as Etsuko TakamiyaFollows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. ...
TV Show page
Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
as uncreditedSet in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story...
TV Show page
SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
TV Show page
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
as Maki no kataFollowing the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no...
TV Show page
Genroku Ryoran
as AguriThe 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most...
TV Show page
Phoenix: Eden17
as Romi (voice)In the age of space exploration, Romi and George flee a devastated Earth in search of a new world.
TV Show page
Guilty Flag
as uncreditedRyōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a...
TV Show page
Blackboard
as Hisako Shirahama"Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time...
TV Show page
Blackboard
as Shirahama Hisako"Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time...
TV Show page
Princess Go
as Chacha/YododonoPrincess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led...
TV Show page
Princess Go
as uncreditedPrincess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led...
TV Show page
Musashi
as OshinoOrphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the...
TV Show page
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
as Eve (The First Woman)Kiyomi Koike is a 16-year-old girl. She has all these different emotions intertwined in her...
TV Show page
Gu Gu the Cat
as Asako KojimaAbout a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living,...
TV Show page
Tokyo Elevator Girl
as uncreditedTsukasa leaves her hometown to work in Tokyo. While there, she is on her own facing the...
TV Show page
God, Please Give Me More Time
as Lisa TakimuraMasaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her...
TV Show page
North Light
as uncreditedA family asks a man to build a house he would like to live in himself. However, when it is...
TV Show page
Leaders
as uncreditedBefore World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United...
TV Show page
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
as uncreditedA Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...
TV Show page
Ashiato Hime
as uncreditedNODA MAP, led by Hideki Noda, broadcasts its 2017 performance of "Princess Footprints" . This...
TV Show page
