THE name Rie Miya zawa doesn’t mean much in New York, but in Asia the Japa nese actress – whose movie “Tony Takitani” opens here July 29 – is a star whose scandalous life keeps headline writers working overtime.

She was a precocious child actress raised by a domineering Japanese mother, and never knew her Dutch father.

As a youngster, Miyazawa earned billions of yen appearing in TV commercials, including one with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

She made her big-screen debut in 1988, winning the Japanese version of an Oscar for best newcomer.

Her career took off in 1992, when she posed nude for a book called “Santa Fe.” It sold 1.5 million copies in three months and remains Japan’s best-selling nude book.

At the peak of her career, she announced plans to marry the single-name Takanohana, a sumo wrestling superstar. To the Japanese press, it was an event equivalent to the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes coupling.

But life soured for Miyazawa when her engagement was called off, reportedly because she wasn’t ready to give up her career to become a traditional sumo wife.

An attempted suicide followed, and in 1996 she fled to Los Angeles to seek treatment for anorexia.

Back in Japan, she began to rebuild her personal and professional lives. A part in “Twilight Samurai” won her the Japanese version of an Oscar.

Now, at age 32, Miyazawa is hitting it big in director Jun Ichikawa’s “Tony Takitani,” which is based on a story in The New Yorker by popular writer Haruki Murakami.

She has two roles: a wife obsessed with buying expensive designer clothes and a look-alike hired by her husband after his wife dies in a car crash.

As for the sumo star she almost married, Miyazawa says: “Sumo wrestlers are hard to hug, but I loved him, so it was easy.”

* The first look at Gus Van Sant’s “Last Days” unreels Wednesday at 9 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art.

The chronicle of the days leading up to a musician’s suicide, the film stars Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas and Asia Argento. (It hits theaters Friday.)

Two earlier Van Sant films, “Gerry” (2002) and “Elephant” (2003), also screen Wednesday at MoMA.

Details: moma.org.