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Home/People/Rika Miura
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Born
Nov 15, 1958
Age 67
Place of Birth
Iwaizumi, Japan
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

4
Movies
4
TV Shows
Also Known As
Yasuyo Hayashima
早島 康代

Rika Miura

Acting

Biography
Yasuyo Hayashima, known professionally as Rika Miura, is a Japanese actress. She played the love interest of Spider-Man, Hitomi Sakuma in Spider-Man (1978-1979), and the lead role in Battle Fever J (1979-1980), and Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1985). Miura was born in Iwaizumi, Iwate and moved to Saitama Prefecture as a child. Her older sister, Mayumi Miura, is also an actress. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School. Miura earned money as a child model, and made her debut in television commercials advertising Kirin Lemon, a soft drink, in 1974, as the product's fourth image girl. Her first lead role was in Sachiko no Shiawase. Since then, Miura has appeared eight times as a guest star on the jidaigeki Mito Kōmon, more than any other woman. Other jidaigeki appearances include Tōyama no Kin-san, two versions of the Hissatsu series, Shadow Warriors and -IV, the live-action show Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, Abarenbō Shōgun, and Ōoka Echizen. She has also had roles in modern and fantasy drama including G-Men '75 and '82, the lead actress in the tokusatsu version of Spider-Man, Battle Fever J, and the 1985 television show Toki o Kakeru Shōjo. A celebrity, Miura has appeared on variety and travel programs too. In addition to film and television, she has acted on stage. Miura is married to actor Daijirō Tsutsumi, who regularly portrays the shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi on Mito Kōmon.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time poster

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

as Kazuko's Mother
1985
The Edo Fortune-Teller poster

The Edo Fortune-Teller

Cast
1982
Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 poster

Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0

as Hitomi Sakura
1978
Sachiko no sachi poster

Sachiko no sachi

as Sachiko
1976