Rie Miyazawa
Known for: Acting
Born: April 5, 1973 in 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 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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Hana
Osae
47 Ronin
Karu
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
The Book of the Dead
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
The Twilight Samurai
Tomoe Iinuma
Gelatin Silver, Love
Assasin
Tony Takitani
Konuma Eiko / Hisako
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Ashura
Tsubaki
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama
Peony Pavilion
Cui Hua
The Sunday Runoff
The Moon
Yoko
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kokiri
Defeat the Devil!
Maki Hoshigawa
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Pale Moon
Rika Umezawa
The Face of Jizo
Mitsue Fukuyoshi
The Cabbie
Chuang Ching-wen
Dreaming Awake
I Am Makimoto
Miharu Imae
Erotic Liaisons
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