Cast & creator
Rie Miyazawa
Best known for Blackboard, Blackboard, SMAP×SMAP
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).
Also known as: 宮沢 りえ, ریه میازاوا
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film credits
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television credits
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1988–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (86)
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Blackboard
Hisako Shirahama
2012Blackboard
Shirahama Hisako
2012
SMAP×SMAP
Bistro Guest
1996
The Naked Director
Etsuko Takamiya
2019
The 13 Lords of the Shogun
Maki no kata
2022
Princess Go
Chacha / Yododono
2011
Guilty Flag
2021
Musashi
Oshino
2003
The Twilight Samurai
Tomoe Iinuma
2002
あてなよる
2015
Genroku Ryoran
Aguri
1999
Asura
Tsunako
2025
Food Fight
Miyazono Saeka
2000
Human Specimens
Rumi Ichinose
2025
Phoenix: Eden17
Romi (voice)
2023
Precious Time
Lisa Takimura
1998
Gu Gu the Cat
Asako Kojima
2014
Queen of Mars
Suzuki Takima
2025
FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS
Eve (The First Woman)
2021
Tears of a Swan
Mika Hazuki
1989
Tokyo Elevator Girl
1992
いつも誰かに恋してるッ
1990
Leaders
Yukino Higashiyama
2014
Concerto
1996
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama (voice)
2019
No Longer Human
Michiko Tsushima
2019
47 Ronin
Karu
1994
North Light
2020
Matrilineal Family
Fumino Hamada
2021
Pieta in the Toilet
Takuto's Mother
2015
Erotic Liaisons
Rie
1992
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Futaba Kono
2016
Too Young To Die!
Adult Hiromi Tezuka
2016
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kokiri
2014
Tony Takitani
Konuma Eiko / Hisako
2004
いつか誰かと朝帰りッ
1990
Ashura
Tsubaki
2005
Hana
Osae
2006
Natsumeke no Shokutaku
2005
Romance
1999
The Cabbie
Chuang Ching-wen
2000
一番大切な人は誰ですか？
Nakamichi Toko
2004
神様のボート
노지마 요코
2013
Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
2025
Pale Moon
Rika Umezawa
2014
Peony Pavilion
Cui Hua
2001
悪魔の手毬唄
2026
The Moon
Yoko
2023
Seven Days War
Hitomi Nakayama
1988
Ashiato Hime
2017
Basara: The Princess Goh
Princess Goh
1992
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Miho Kumazawa
2013
Gelatin Silver, Love
Assasin
2009
I Am Makimoto
Miharu Imae
2022
Saiyūki
三藏法师
1993結婚式場 花嫁介添人がゆく
1994
Utsutsu
Ikuko Obara
2002
Who Do I Choose?
Namiko
1989
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Fumiyo Yoshinaga
2002
Numb
2026
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower
Romi (voice)
2023
Youth Peony Lantern
1993Dreaming Awake
2008
The Miracle on a Christmas Night
1995
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2020
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Kido Kubo
2001
Don't Steal My Heart
1992
The Face of Jizo
Mitsue Fukuyoshi
2004
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Toyo Toyota
2007
昭和から騒ぎ
2025
Defeat the Devil!
Maki Hoshigawa
1990
Intermission
Self (archive footage)
2026
リア王
2025
Oshare dorobō
1989
Independence of Japan
2020
The Sunday Runoff
2022
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998
The Book of the Dead
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)
2005
The Kiss of an Invisible Man
2004
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995
Orlando
2024
Sunny Home
Self
2005