Two board down incidents, the legendary stage in ’13, meeting and parting… Etcetera about “Miyazawa Rie and Revenge”.

Rie Miyazawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and began modeling at the age of 11. In 1987, when she was in the second year of junior high school, she attracted attention with a commercial for “Mitsui Re-House”. The following year, she made her big breakthrough when she was chosen to star in the movie “Bokutachi no Shichinichi Senso” (Our Seven-Day War). In 1989, she made her debut as a singer with “Dream Rush” produced by Tetsuya Komuro, and in 1990, she made her first appearance at the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen. In 1991, she became a social phenomenon, literally, as she performed hair nudity in “Santa Fe” and stunned the whole of Japan.

It seemed as if his success would continue forever, but he stumbled in an unexpected way. The story of his engagement to Sekiwake Takanada (later to become yokozuna Takanohana) and the subsequent breakup of the relationship that swept the Japanese archipelago from late fall of 1992 to January 1993. After this, his popularity suddenly stopped, and reports began to circulate that he had lost a lot of weight and was suffering from mental and physical ailments. Furthermore, in 1995, she was hit by two more troubles.

Two cases of being dropped from the board

Tomiko Miyao’s novel “Kura,” which had been serialized in the Mainichi Newspapers for a year from March 1992, was to be made into a movie. Set in a Niigata sake brewery during the Taisho period (1912-1926), the film depicts the life of the main character Retsu, the first woman to become a brewery owner, despite losing her eyesight. It was supposed to be a win-win situation. Rie herself seemed to be aware of this, commenting at the production announcement, “I want this to be my masterpiece,” and it appeared that she was proactive in “changing her character.

However, something inexplicable happened here. Toei, the distributor of the film, had assumed that Yuko Asano, who played the aunt, would play the leading role instead of Rie Miyazawa. Rie Miyazawa, or rather her mother Mitsuko Miyazawa, who represented her, protested vehemently against the inexplicable treatment of the film, saying, “In the novel, Rie is the main character, but in the film, she plays the semi-leading role. After repeated discussions with Toei over and over again, the two parties came to a mutual understanding, and in the end, six days before the film was to be cranked, it was decided that Rie Miyazawa would withdraw from the film.

Looking back at the incident 29 years later, Miyazawa’s side of the story seems quite plausible. After all, she played the leading role in the original film. It is only natural that he should be considered the leading actor in the movie as well, and I felt that I should be very sympathetic to Miyazawa’s side, considering the fact that the issue of rank in the hierarchy is a much more sensitive one. Surprisingly, however, the public’s criticism was focused on Miyazawa’s mother and son, who had dropped out of the film. Entertainment reporter Sudo Jinichiro, who would become a Meguro Ward Council member in 1999, quipped.

The more second-rate actors count the number of lines they have,” he said. Rie’s high-flying business tactics have worked so far, but this time it has backfired on her. （Rie will probably only be able to work in adult videos in the future.

As a side note, Sae Isshiki, who was a newcomer at the time, replaced Rie Miyazawa, who had dropped out of the movie, to play Rie.

Rie Miyazawa, who had been hurt by the movie cancellation scandal, was also forced to cancel the role in a stage performance at the end of the same year. She was scheduled to play a girl with special abilities in the stage production of “Coyote,” but she had to withdraw from the show because she “could not shake off the concerns about the direction. At that time, the performance was not only a personal problem for Rie Miyazawa, but also involved a conflict between the director and the choreographer, but the media paid no attention to this and slammed the Miyazawa mother and child. In short, they were in the midst of bashing the mother and son.

After this, the opportunities for Rie Miyazawa to be seen on TV screens decreased dramatically. Instead of the glamorous news of the past, most of the reports on the wide news shows were either about her poor health or her dating life. Although “turning to pornography” must have been a groundless rumor, it was not limited to Jinichiro Sudo, but it was a myth, and it followed him throughout the 1990s.