Rie Miyazawa
Biography: 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).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 06, 1973
Deathday: N/A
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Hana
2006-06-03
Hana
Overview: In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.
Genres: Action Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-03
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47 Ronin
1994-10-22
47 Ronin
Overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010-04-29
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Overview: Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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The Book of the Dead
2005-07-01
The Book of the Dead
Overview: A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance History Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-01
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The Twilight Samurai
2002-11-02
The Twilight Samurai
Overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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Gelatin Silver, Love
2009-03-07
Gelatin Silver, Love
Overview: The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-07
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Tony Takitani
2005-01-27
Tony Takitani
Overview: A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
1992-05-22
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Overview: There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Ashura
2005-04-16
Ashura
Overview: Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.
Genres: Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-16
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Seven Days War
1988-08-13
Seven Days War
Overview: A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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Peony Pavilion
2001-12-07
Peony Pavilion
Overview: In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
2023-11-03
Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
Overview: From time immemorial to the age of space colonization, there is one legend that has stayed unchanged in every history book—the tale of the immortal bird Phoenix. A being whose blood is said to grant eternal life or wisdom, the radiant figure ensures the continuation of sentient life in the universe as it oversees human civilizations and their development. Yet, mankind remains a slave to its habits; from happiness and sorrow, to wrath and love, a myriad of emotions continue to play an integral part of human life. Simultaneously, time and time again, certain beliefs and agendas persist over the centuries to disturb the fragile equilibrium of the world's preordained nature and principles. It appears that fate and its dynamic variables can manifest itself in many ways—and oftentimes exhibits a bizarre sense of humor...
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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The Sunday Runoff
2022-01-07
The Sunday Runoff
Overview: A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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The Moon
2023-10-13
The Moon
Overview: Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Kiki's Delivery Service
2014-03-01
Kiki's Delivery Service
Overview: A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Defeat the Devil!
1990-01-06
Defeat the Devil!
Overview: A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
2016-01-02
疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜
Overview: 'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-02
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聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
1995-12-23
聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Overview: A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1998-02-21
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Overview: The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-21
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Pale Moon
2014-11-15
Pale Moon
Overview: Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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The Face of Jizo
2004-07-31
The Face of Jizo
Overview: Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-31
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The Cabbie
2000-10-10
The Cabbie
Overview: After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-10-10
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Dreaming Awake
2008-10-18
Dreaming Awake
Overview: Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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I Am Makimoto
2022-09-30
I Am Makimoto
Overview: Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Erotic Liaisons
1992-10-17
Erotic Liaisons
Overview: A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-17
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001-08-18
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Overview: Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-18
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Basara: The Princess Goh
1992-04-11
Basara: The Princess Goh
Overview: Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-11
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The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995-09-09
The Tale of Himeji Castle
Overview: A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to return to the castle by the dying light, but the mistress has become fascinated with him...
Genres: Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Why Do I Choose?
1989-08-26
Why Do I Choose?
Overview: Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-26
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Utsutsu
2002-06-01
Utsutsu
Overview: A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007-11-03
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Overview: Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-03
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The After-Dinner Mysteries
2013-10-30
The After-Dinner Mysteries
Overview: Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Pieta in the Toilet
2015-06-06
Pieta in the Toilet
Overview: Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-06
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Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1995-06-09
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016-10-29
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Overview: A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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Oceans
2010-01-22
Oceans
Overview: An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-22
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Too Young To Die!
2016-06-25
Too Young To Die!
Overview: After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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No Longer Human
2019-09-13
No Longer Human
Overview: The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
2002-08-27
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-27
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Seven Days War
2019-12-13
Seven Days War
Overview: In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.
Genres: Animation Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-13
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Youth Peony Lantern
1993-08-21
Youth Peony Lantern
Overview: Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in charge of the script. A feature-length historical drama depicting a fierce and painful love story between ghosts and humans. Impressive artistic and fantastic painting with depth as if you were watching the stage. In all, this work is a beautiful, love horror fantasy.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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Don't Steal My Heart
1992-09-29
Don't Steal My Heart
Overview: Sakurako, an aspiring model living in a flat in downtown Rome, is chosen as the new character of the conglomerate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-29
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Oshare dorobō
1989-05-09
Oshare dorobō
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-09
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Saiyûki
Saiyûki
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Original Language: zh
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Sunny Home
2005-02-05
Sunny Home
Overview: Behind-the-scenes making-of for "Tony Takitani". The film "Tony Takitani" was shot in a vacant lot in Yokohama for about two weeks. The camera follows the interaction between director Ichikawa and the stars Issey Ogata and Rie Miyazawa, as well as the staff running around the set. It captures the process of the film being completed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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