Aoi Miyazaki

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese actress.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is known for her roles in Nana and Virgin Snow.

Career

Miyazaki started working in the entertainment industry at the age of four. Initially she appeared mostly in commercials, magazine advertisements, and as an extra in television dramas. Miyazaki made her film debut in Ano Natsu no Hi at the age of 14.

Also at the age of 14, Miyazaki began to draw international attention for her role as the survivor of a traumatic bus hijack in Shinji Aoyama's Eureka. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2000, and resulted in her receiving the Best Actress award at the Japanese Professional Movie Awards.<ref name="imdb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also made her musical debut in The Little Prince in 2003.

Later, Miyazaki won Best Actress award in the Cinemanila International Film Festival for her performance in Harmful Insect.<ref name="imdb" /> She teamed up with Aoyama again in Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?, an Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes 2005. Later in the same year, she co-starred with Mika Nakashima in the mainstream and commercially successful Nana.

She won the Galaxy Individual Award for her performance in the NHK drama Atsuhime in 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Endorsements

Miyazaki has appeared in commercials for major corporations including Aflac, Tokyo Metro, NTT DoCoMo and Olympus. In early 2008, she was selected as Emporio Armani's new print advertisement model.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Miyazaki has been the face of the Japanese popular apparel brand Earth music&ecology since 2010.Template:Cn

Humanitarian activities

In recent years, Miyazaki has taken a more prominent position in humanitarian activism projects.

She travelled with her older brother and fellow actor, Masaru Miyazaki,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> to Bangladesh<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in 2005 to experience poverty firsthand, and they highlighted the problems then found in their 2006 photobook Tarinai Peace.Template:Cn

The siblings travelled to Denmark and Finland in 2006 to investigate global warming. Their experiences were then published in their 2007 photobooks Love, Peace, and Green Tarinai, Peace2.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Miyazaki took part in the Gold Ribbon Walking event in Roppongi, Tokyo in 2008 to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer.Template:Cn

Her 2008 film, Children of the Dark, addresses issues of child exploitation.<ref>Aoi Miyazaki: from TV princess to rescuer of trafficked children, Japan Times, 17 July 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2008.</ref>

Personal life

Miyazaki married actor Sosuke Takaoka, her partner since she was fifteen, on 15 June 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They divorced in December 2011,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with Takaoka subsequently accusing her of committing adultery on his Twitter account.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Miyazaki married singer Junichi Okada on 23 December 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple jointly announced that they had welcomed the birth of their first child, a son, born May 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1999	Ano Natsu no Hi	Tama Kobayashi
2000	Swing Man	Futami Minase
2001	Eureka	Kozue Tamura		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2002	Harmful Insect	Sachiko Kita	Lead role	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Pakodate-jin	Hikaru "Pikaru" Hino	Lead role
	Tomie: Forbidden Fruit	Tomie Hashimoto	Lead role
2003	Lovers' Kiss	Eriko Kawana
2004	Loved Gun	Miyuki
	A Blue Automobile	Konomi Saeki
	Riyu	Yukari Ishida
	Amoretto	Female high-school student
2005	All About My Dog	Mika	Lead role; Marimo segment
	Nana	Nana Komatsu	Lead role
2006	Origin: Spirits of the Past	Toola (voice)	Lead role
	Gimme Heaven	Mari Michiki
	My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?	Hana
	Su-ki-da	Yu (young)	Lead role
	Hatsukoi	Misuzu	Lead role
	Heavenly Forest	Shizuru Satonaka	Lead role
	Umi de no Hanashi	Kaede Fukino	Lead role
2007	Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad	DJ Idol
	Virgin Snow	Nanae Sasaki	South Korean-Japanese film
	Sad Vacation	Kozue Tamura
2008	Bloody Snake Under the Sun	An Anjo
	Flowers in the Shadows	Naruko/Hisako
	Children of the Dark	Keiko Otowa
2009	Brass Knuckle Boys	Kanna Kurita	Lead role
	Mt. Tsurugidake	Hatsuyo Shibasaki
2010	Solanin	Meiko	Lead role
	Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!	Tsukiko Morii	Lead role
	Colorful	Shōko Sano (voice)
2011	In His Chart	Haruna Kurihara
	My So Has Got Depression	Haruko	Lead role
	Chronicle of My Mother	Kotoko
2012	Wolf Children Ame and Yuki	Hana (voice)	Lead role
	Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer	En
2013	Petal Dance	Jinko	Lead role
	The Great Passage	Kaguya Hayashi
	Yellow Elephant	Aiko Tsumari	Lead role
	Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story	Teacher and narrator
2014	The Chart of Love	Haruna Kurihara		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Vancouver Asahi	Toyoko
2015	The Boy and the Beast	Child Kyūta (voice)
2016	Rage	Aiko
	If Cats Disappeared From the World	She
	Birthday Card	Yoshie
2017	The Last Recipe	Chizuru Yamagata		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Lonely Castle in the Mirror	Kitajima-sensei (voice)		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	In Love and Deep Water	Chizuru Banjaku	Lead role	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	We're Broke, My Lord!	Natsu		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within	Narrator		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2025	5 Centimeters per Second	Koshimizu		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

TV dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1999	Genroku Ryōran	Sayo Yatō	Taiga drama	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2000	Hatachi no Kekkon	Shiori Chūganji
	Girl	Azusa Minami	Lead role
	Himitsu Club O-daiba.com	Rei Kōgen
2001	Kabushikikaisha O-daiba.com	Rei Kōgen
	R-17	Yukari Nomura
	Fure, Fure Jinsei!	Kyōko Yūki
	Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro	Kaeda Uchiyama	Lead role; TV movie
2002	Shiawase No Shippo	Moe Sasamoto
	Keitaideka Zenigata Ai	Ai Zenigata	Lead role
2004	Chotto Matte Kamisama	Akihiko Amagi
	The Reason	Yukari Ishida	TV movie
	Chichi no Umi, Boku no Sora	Honoka Arai	TV movie
2006	Junjo Kirari	Sakurako Arimori	Lead role; Asadora	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2008	Atsuhime	Tenshō-in Atsuhime	Lead role; Taiga drama	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2011	Madame Butterfly	Cho Ito (Cho cho san)	Lead role; miniseries	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2012	Going My Home	Naho Shimojima		<ref name=mantan20250902/>
2015	Here Comes Asa	Hatsu Imai	Asadora	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter	Oei	Lead role; TV movie	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	Brother and Sister	Monchi	Lead role; TV movie	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Ashita no Kazoku	Risa Onodera	Lead role; TV movie	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Ranman	Narrator / Noriko Fujihira	Asadora	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2025	Just a Bit Espers	Shiki		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2026	Brothers in Arms	Oichi	Taiga drama	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Dubbing

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Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result
2001	23rd Three Continents Festival	Best Actress	Harmful Insect	Template:Won
2002	Cinemanila International Film Festival	Best Actress		Template:Won<ref name="imdb" />
	15th Nikkan Sports Film Award	Best New Talent		Template:Won<ref name="imdb" />
	11th Japan Film Professional Awards	Best New Encouragement	Eureka	Template:Won<ref name="imdb" />
	16th Takasaki Film Festival	Best New Actress		Template:Won
2008	Vogue Japan Women of the Year			Template:Won<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2009	33rd Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Atsuhime	Template:Won<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix	Best Actress		Template:Won<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	45th Galaxy Award	Individual Award		Template:Won
	5th TVnavi's Drama of the Year 2008	Best Actress		Template:Won
2010	33rd Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Shonen Merikensack	Template:Nom
2011	24th Nikkan Sports Film Award	Best Actress	Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite and Kamisama no Karute	Template:Won
2012	35th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite	Template:Nom
2013	36th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actress	Chronicle of My Mother	Template:Nom
2014	37th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	The Great Passage	Template:Nom
2016	41st Hochi Film Award	Best Supporting Actress	Rage, If Cats Disappeared From the World and Birthday Card	Template:Nom
	29th Nikkan Sports Film Award	Best Supporting Actress	Rage and If Cats Disappeared From the World	Template:Won
2017	59th Blue Ribbon Awards	Best Supporting Actress		Template:Nom
	71st Mainichi Film Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Rage	Template:Nom
	40th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress		Template:Nom
		Best Supporting Actress	Birthday Card	Template:Nom

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