Shinobu Otake

Known for: Acting
Born: July 17, 1957, Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
Movies: 93

Shinobu Otake (大竹しのぶ, Ōtake Shinobu, born July 17, 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 and Best Supporting Actress.

Best-Known Movies

7.8

The Wind Rises

2013

7.7

Arrietty

2010

7.4

The Boy and the Heron

2023

7.2

Mary and The Witch's Flower

2017

7.6

Our Little Sister

2015

7.7

Ritual

2000

7.4

2001

7.0

Hell Dogs

2022

7.0

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

2021

7.0

Railroad Man

1999

Filmography

2025	リア王
2025	In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa	Narrator
2024	恋のおしまい
2024	Who Were We?	Kii
2023	The Boy and the Heron	Aiko (voice)
2022	Hell Dogs	Noriko Kinugasa
2021	The House of the Lost on the Cape	Kiwa-san (voice)
2021	Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko	Nikuko-chan (voice)
2020	Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special	Masako Tatemoto
2019	Shadowfall
2018	Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41	Sakiko
2018	Nomitori Samurai	Orin
2017	Mary and The Witch's Flower	Great-Aunt Charlotte (voice)
2016	Sanada 10 Braves	Yodo-dono
2016	Black Widow Business	Sayoko Takeuchi
2015	Galaxy Turnpike	Hana
2015	Our Little Sister	Miyako Sasaki
2015	Pieta in the Toilet	Hiroshi's Mother
2014	「昭和の歌よ、ありがとう」One Night Premiere LIVE
2013	The Wind Rises	Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)
2013	Leaving on the 15th Spring	Akemi Nakazato
2013	Before the Vigil	Sachiko Yamada
2012	Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town
2012	fukusuke
2012	Cymbeline
2010	Forget Me Not
2010	Postcard	Tomoko Morikawa
2010	A Night in Nude: Salvation	Ayumi Kato
2010	Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!	Yoko Morii
2010	Surely Someday
2010	Arrietty	Homily (voice)
2010	My Darling Is a Foreigner	Saori's mom
2009	Castle Under Fiery Skies
2009	Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
2008	Arigato, Okan	Hanako
2008	Teacher and Three Children	Midori Fujikawa
2008	Then Summer Came	Yukie Miyaji
2007	Welcome to the Quiet Room	Nishino
2007	Into the Faraway Sky	Michi
2007	Kitokito!	Tomoko Saito
2006	Returning the Favor	Mikiko Kitahara
2004	Mourning Becomes Electra
2004	Otakus in Love	Yasuko Akashi
2004	Tracing Jake
2003	Like Asura	Tsunako Mitamura - First Daughter
2003	Owl	Yumi
2001	Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
2001	GO	Michiko
2000	Ritual	Mother
1999	蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
1999	The Black House	Sachiko Komoda
1999	Round About Midnight	Couple
1999	14 Up Japan	Narrator
1999	Railroad Man	Shizue Sato
1999	Keijitachi no Natsu
1999	Will to Live	Tokuko
1998	A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage	Sawako Kojima
1996	Gonin 2	Sayuri
1995	The August Screams
1995	北の国から ’95秘密後編
1995	Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1993	Rex: A Dinosaur's Story	Naomi Ito
1992	Nurses and Doctors	Rei Kiyohara
1992	Original Sin	Nami Tsuchiya
1992	7 Up Japan	Narrator
1992	Night Escape Agency	Fumiko Akikawa
1991	Harikomi
1991	The love song of farewell later
1990	Kinpira
1990	Megumi no Sekai
1988	Stay or go?
1987	Eien no 1/2
1987	A Tale of Young Elopement	Setsuko
1986	Beyond the Shining Sea	Hiroko
1985	The Empty Table	Miyoko Asano
1985	Dangerous Women	Noriko Tanase
1984	Mahjong Horoki	Mayumi
1983	Lover, Come Back to Me
1983	Children of Nagasaki
1980	Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
1980	Child of the Sun
1980	Twelve Months	Anja (voice)
1979	Oh, My Son!	Tagiri
1979	Nomugi Pass
1978	The Demon	Policewoman
1978	Monument to Holy Service
1978	The Incident	Yoshiko Sakai
1977	Tora-san Plays Cupid	福村幸子
1977	Seasonal Wind
1977	The Gate of Youth Part 2
1976	The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1976	Human Revolution II
1975	The Gate of Youth

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