# Aoi Miyazaki

Aoi Miyazaki (宮﨑 あおい, Miyazaki Aoi, born 30 November 1985) is a Japanese actress. 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. 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. 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.

## 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. Miyazaki has been the face of the Japanese popular apparel brand Earth music&ecology since 2010.

## 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, to Bangladesh in 2005 to experience poverty firsthand, and they highlighted the problems then found in their 2006 photobook Tarinai Peace.
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.
Miyazaki took part in the Gold Ribbon Walking event in Roppongi, Tokyo in 2008 to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer.
Her 2008 film, Children of the Dark, addresses issues of child exploitation.

## Personal life

Miyazaki married actor Sosuke Takaoka, her partner since she was fifteen, on 15 June 2007. They divorced in December 2011, with Takaoka subsequently accusing her of committing adultery on his Twitter account.
Miyazaki married singer Junichi Okada on 23 December 2017. The couple jointly announced that they had welcomed the birth of their first child, a son, born May 2018.

## Filmography
### Film

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

### TV dramas

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

### Dubbing

* Franny's Feet, Franny

## Awards

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