Rie Miyazawa

Rie Miyazawa is the kind of arc I find genuinely thrilling: the teen "Rehouse girl" everyone adored, who could've coasted on being impossibly cute, instead turned into one of Japan's most decorated actresses, hauling home Japan Academy Prizes like it was nothing. What gets me is that she never plays it safe. In Twilight Samurai she's all quiet restraint, then in films like Pale Moon and Her Love Boils Bathwater she just reaches in and grabs you by the chest. I love that there's this glamorous Dutch-Japanese poise sitting right next to a down-to-earth Tokyo bluntness. And the stage work under Bando Tamasaburo only makes her more compelling. She's an artist who kept getting deeper as she aged, and honestly, watching that happen in real time feels like a gift.

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Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress, model, and singer of Japanese-Dutch descent, born on April 6, 1973, in Nerima, Tokyo. She began her career as a model around 1984 and gained widespread recognition in 1987 as the first "Rehouse Girl" for Mitsui Real Estate before making her film acting debut in the 1988 movie Our Seven-Day War. Over a career spanning four decades, she has won the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role three times, for The Twilight Samurai (2003), Pale Moon (2014), and A Full Life (2016).

Name (English)

Rie Miyazawa

Name (Japanese)

宮沢りえ

Reading

みやざわ りえ

Born

April 6, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Nerima, Tokyo, Japan

Height

167cm

Occupation

Actress / Model / Singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

Blood type

B

Agency

MOSS (MOSS Co., Ltd.)

Agency history

Office May (at debut)
M2 Planning (1987–2021)

Active years

1985–present

University

Did not attend

Debut

Started modeling around 1984. Made her entertainment debut in 1985 in a Myojo Foods Charumera commercial. Gained major attention in 1987 as the first Rehouse Girl ("Shiratori Reiko") for Mitsui Real Estate. Made her acting debut starring in the 1988 film Our Seven-Day War.

Awards & achievements

• 1989 – 12th Japan Academy Prize, New Actor Award (Our Seven-Day War)
• 2001 – 23rd Moscow International Film Festival, Best Actress (Peony Pavilion)
• 2003 – 26th Japan Academy Prize, Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (The Twilight Samurai)
• 2005 – 47th Blue Ribbon Award, Best Actress (Father and Son / Chichi to Kuraseba)
• 2015 – 38th Japan Academy Prize, Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Pale Moon)
• 2017 – 40th Japan Academy Prize, Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (A Full Life)

Timeline

1. 1987Cast as the first Rehouse Girl ("Shiratori Reiko") for Mitsui Real Estate, rising to national prominence
2. 1988Made her acting debut starring in the film Our Seven-Day War; won the Japan Academy Prize for New Actor
3. 1992Announced engagement to sumo grand champion Takanohana Koji (engagement dissolved in January 1993)
4. 1994Her catchphrase from a Takara Shuzo commercial — "Suttamonda ga arimashita" — won the Grand Prize at the New Words and Popular Phrases Award
5. 2003Won her first Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai
6. 2009Married a private citizen and gave birth to her first child, a daughter
7. 2016Divorced her first husband. Film A Full Life released.
8. 2018Remarried actor Gou Morita (who took the Miyazawa family name)

Spouse

Gou Morita (remarried 2018)

Children

One daughter (born 2009, from her first marriage)

Parents

Mother: Mitsuko Miyazawa; father: Dutch

Hobbies

• Painting (acrylic large-scale works and pen sketches)
• Reading
• Drinking (wine, champagne, sake, shochu)

Specialties

• Acting
• Impressions of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and Dewi Sukarno

Works summary

Appearances

277 (1985–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1985: 3, 1986: 3, 1987: 2, 1988: 3, 1989: 12, 1990: 10, 1991: 11, 1992: 9, 1993: 9, 1994: 7, 1995: 4, 1996: 1, 1998: 6, 1999: 2, 2000: 6, 2001: 6, 2002: 6, 2003: 5, 2004: 6, 2005: 11, 2006: 6, 2007: 3, 2008: 4, 2009: 4, 2010: 3, 2011: 1, 2012: 6, 2013: 14, 2014: 8, 2015: 3, 2016: 8, 2017: 3, 2018: 3, 2019: 5, 2020: 4, 2021: 7, 2022: 3, 2023: 4, 2024: 3, 2025: 7, 2026: 3, year unknown: 53

Debut work

チャルメラ

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://m-o-s-s.co.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/riemiyazawa0406_official/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E6%B2%A2%E3%82%8A%E3%81%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289729

Tags

• Tokyo
• Actress
• Model
• MOSS
• Japan Academy Prize
• Mitsui Real Estate
• A Full Life
• Japanese-Dutch

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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