Rie Miyazawa Movies
- 2007
In this warmly nostalgic drama from Japan, Yoshie (Kanako Higuchi) and Yuji (Tomorowo Taguchi) are a middle-aged couple disenchanted with their marriage who one day receive a message inviting them to the final screening at the Cinema Orion, a neighborhood movie house in Kyoto that is soon to close. We learn that Yoshie and Yuji first met at the theater when they were youngsters, and we flash back to the Fifties, when nerdy but well-meaning Tomekichi (Ryo Kase) was given a job at the Orion by tough-talking manager Matsuzo (Ryudo Uzaki). Matsuzo's pretty wife Toyo (Rie Miyazawa) also works at the theater, and before long she strike up a friendship with Tomekichi that over the years grows into something deeper as Matsuzo leaves the business and Tomekichi takes control of the Orion. Orion-za kara no shotaijo (aka The Invitation from Cinema Orion) also stars Hitomi Nakahara and Yoshio Harada. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rie Miyazawa, Ryo Kase, (more)
Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki (Junichi Okada) has arrived in Edo to seek revenge against Jubei Kanazawa (Tadanoby Asano). Kanazawa is the man responsible for the death of Aoki's father, and now it's up to the grieving swordsman to settle the score. When Aoki begins teaching the children of Edo to read and write, however, his bloodlust slowly begins to subside as he cones to realize the true value of his useful place in society. Upon falling in love with the beautiful Osae (Rie Miyazawa), Aoki comes to realize that although the sword may be a powerful symbol of strength, allowing oneself to fall victim to its savage allure may not always be the best way to realizing ones true heroism. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, (more)
A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced to a stretch in prison following the war. Tony was named in honor of an American serviceman who befriended his father, but his name also earned him the suspicion of his classmates, and he had few close friends as a child, a situation aggravated by the death of his mother. While Tony displayed great technical skill as an artist, his work lacked feeling, and he ended up pursuing a successful career as a technical illustrator. One day, Tony meets Eiko Konuma (Rie Miyazawa), a beautiful woman working with one of his clients, and he is immediately entranced. Feeling as if he's found his soul mate, Tony becomes fully inspired for the first time in his life, and soon asks Eiko for her hand in marriage. Eiko accepts, but before long Tony discovers she has a financially ruinous fondness for expensive designer clothes. When Tony asks Eiko to cut back on her shopping sprees, it triggers a series of events which show Eiko isn't all Tony imagined her to be, and throws his new satisfaction with life into turmoil. Tony Takitani received its North American premiere at the 2004 Vancouver Film Festival, and was also screened as part of the World Cinema series at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, (more)
Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada -- who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series -- directs this good-natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600-1867). Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-level samurai struggling to get by on stipend of 50 rice bales a year while working as a clerk at the clan office. While his co-workers spend their evenings sucking down sake at the local pub, Seibei, whose wife has passed away, heads straight home to care for his two young daughters and doddering mother. One day, his friend Michinojo (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) tells him that his boyhood friend Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa), is leaving her thuggish husband and returning home. Tomoe soon starts to frequent Seibei's house, taking care of his daughters, while Seibei quietly falls in love with the attractive young lass. After defeating Tomoe's husband in a duel, armed with only a pointed stick, Seibei is asked by Michinojo if he wants to marry Tomoe. Seibei declines, too embarrassed by his poverty to accept. Later, as he prepares to perform the distasteful task of killing a fellow samurai, he learns that Tomoe is engaged to another man. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, (more)
- 2001
A man trying to win the heart of a cop decides that breaking a few laws may be just the way to do it in this manic physical comedy. Su Da-chuan (Chu Chung-heng) is a cab driver who comes from an eccentric family; his mother (Cheng Hsiu-ying) is the city coroner and uses a head in a jar as a paperweight, while his sister (Tsai Tsan-de) concocts new drugs for a pharmaceutical firm, and his father (Cheung Ka-nin) runs a taxi service and revels in traffic accidents. So when Su Da-chuan is pulled over for a moving violation by a pretty female cop, Chuang Ching-wen (Rie Miyazawa), he's immediately infatuated and decides he wants to win her over. His strategy? To get so many tickets that Chuang Ching-wen can't help but notice him, and then she's bound to fall in love with him! Yun Zhuanshou Zhi Lian was co-directed by Chang Hwa-kun and Chen Yi-wen; Haw-kun, previously a noted producer, directed for the first time. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rie Miyazawa
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