Shinobu Otake

Shinobu Otake (大竹 しのぶ, Ōtake Shinobu, born 17 July 1957) is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi). She also won the award for best actress at the 12th Hochi Film Award for Eien no 1/2. At the 25th Moscow International Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for her role in Owl. She has received a total of 12 nominations.

She was the favoured lead actress of director Kaneto Shindo after his previous lead actress, Nobuko Otowa, died in 1994, and featured in several of his films from A Last Note in 1995 to Postcard in 2011.

Otake has also acted on the stage.

Personal life

Otake was born and grew up mostly in Tokyo. In 1982 she married Seiji Hattori, a Tokyo Broadcasting director who died in 1987. One year later, Otake married Akashiya Sanma, but got divorced in 1992. In the early 1990s Otake lived with playwright Hideki Noda.

Otake has two children, Nichika, a son by Hattori and Imaru, a daughter by Sanma. After her divorce she kept custody.

Filmography

1977 Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen aka The Gate of Youth Part 2

1978 Jiken aka The Incident

1979 Ah! Nomugi Toge aka Nomugi Pass

1986 Hakō kirameku hate aka Beyond the Shining Sea

1987 Eien no 1/2

1992 Original Sin

1996 Gonin 2 aka Five Women

1998 Gakko III aka Gakko III: The New Voyage

1999 Poppoya aka Railroad Man

1999 Kuroi ie aka The Black House

1999 Will to Live

2000 Shiki-Jitsu

2001 Go

2003 Ashura no gotoku aka Like Asura

2003 Owl

2010 My Darling is a Foreigner

2010 The Borrower Arrietty

2011 Postcard

2015 The Mourner

2015 Umimachi Diary

2015 Galaxy Turnpike

Voice acting roles

• 1980 Sekai Meisaku Douwa Mori wa Ikiteiru aka Twelve Months
• 2010 Kari-gurashi no Arietti aka Arrietty
• 2013 Kaze Tachinu

Commercials

In 2012, she became a representative for NTT DoCoMo's "Raku-Raku Smartphone", a smartphone aimed at the over-55s.

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011)

References

External links

• Official website
• Shinobu Otake at the Internet Movie Database