Shinobu Otake

Actor Jul 17 (age 68) Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan 1975–2025 (50 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

The Wind Rises

Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)

Film

The Secret World of Arrietty

Homily (voice)

Film

The Boy and the Heron

Aiko (voice)

Film

Mary and The Witch's Flower

Great-Aunt Charlotte (voice)

Film

Our Little Sister

Miyako Sasaki

Film

Ritual

Mother

Film

GO

Michiko

Film

Hell Dogs

Noriko Kinugasa

Filmography

Acting (114)

Movies (91)

In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa

2025

as Narrator

Who Were We?

2024

as Kii

2.0

恋のおしまい

2024

The Boy and the Heron

as Aiko (voice)

Hell Dogs

as Noriko Kinugasa

The House of the Lost on the Cape

2021

as Kiwa-san (voice)

6.8

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

2021

as Nikuko-chan (voice)

7.2

Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special

as Masako Tatemoto

Shadowfall

Nomitori Samurai

as Orin

Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41

2018

as Sakiko

Mary and The Witch's Flower

2017

as Great-Aunt Charlotte (voice)

Black Widow Business

as Sayoko Takeuchi

Sanada 10 Braves

as Yodo-dono

Our Little Sister

as Miyako Sasaki

Galaxy Turnpike

as Hana

Pieta in the Toilet

as Hiroshi's Mother

「昭和の歌よ、ありがとう」One Night Premiere LIVE

2014

The Wind Rises

2013

as Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)

7.8

Before the Vigil

2013

as Sachiko Yamada

6.0

Leaving on the 15th Spring

as Akemi Nakazato

Cymbeline

fukusuke

Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town

2012

The Secret World of Arrietty

as Homily (voice)

Postcard

as Tomoko Morikawa

Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!

2010

as Yoko Morii

5.3

A Night In Nude: Salvation

as Ayumi Kato

Surely Someday

My Darling Is a Foreigner

2010

as Saori's mom

5.6

Forget Me Not

2010

Castle Under Fiery Skies

2009

8.6

Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special

2009

Then Summer Came

2008

as Yukie Miyaji

4.0

Teacher and Three Children

2008

as Midori Fujikawa

6.0

Arigato, Okan

2008

as Hanako

Into the Faraway Sky

2007

as Michi

7.0

Welcome to the Quiet Room

2007

as Nishino

6.7

Kitokito!

2007

as Tomoko Saito

Returning the Favor

2006

as Mikiko Kitahara

7.1

Mourning Becomes Electra

Otakus in Love

as Yasuko Akashi

Tracing Jake

Like Asura

as Tsunako Mitamura - First Daughter

Owl

as Yumi

as Michiko

Ritual

as Mother

Railroad Man

as Shizue Sato

The Black House

as Sachiko Komoda

蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

Will to Live

as Tokuko

Keijitachi no Natsu

Round About Midnight

as Couple

14 Up Japan

as Narrator

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

as Sawako Kojima

Gonin 2

as Sayuri

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

The August Screams

北の国から ’95秘密後編

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

as Naomi Ito

Night Escape Agency

as Fumiko Akikawa

Original Sin

as Nami Tsuchiya

7 Up Japan

as Narrator

Nurses and Doctors

1992

as Rei Kiyohara

Harikomi

1991

2.0

The love song of farewell later

Kinpira

Megumi no Sekai

Stay or go?

Eien no 1/2

A Tale of Young Elopement

1987

as Setsuko

Beyond the Shining Sea

1986

as Hiroko

5.5

Dangerous Women

1985

as Noriko Tanase

The Empty Table

as Miyoko Asano

Mahjong Horoki

as Mayumi

Lover, Come Back to Me

Children of Nagasaki

Child of the Sun

Twelve Months

as Anja (voice)

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

Nomugi Pass

Oh, My Son!

as Tagiri

The Demon

as Policewoman

The Incident

as Yoshiko Sakai

Monument to Holy Service

Tora-san Plays Cupid

as Sachiko

Seasonal Wind

The Gate of Youth Part 2

1977

8.0

Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

Human Revolution II

The Gate of Youth

Television (23)

喫茶しのぶ

2025

The Beginning of the Sea

as Nagumo Akane

The Inugami Family

as Matsuko Inugami

PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

2022

as Minami Shikota

7.0

劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

2020

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

2019

as 池部几江

7.8

I'm Sorry, I Love You

as Hyuga Reiko

Iron Grandma

Princess Go

Still, Life Goes On

as Kyoko Nomoto

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

2007

as Rie Hirose

Affectionate Time

2005

as Wakui Megumi

8.0

Audrey

2000

as 吉岡（麻生）滝乃

Semi-double

1999

as Mako Tsuzuki

Dear Woman

1996

as Tsuno Kyouko

The Misery of Others is as Sweet as Honey

1994

Danjoshchinin Akimonogatari

1987

as 神崎桃子

8.0

Danjoshichi Natsu Monogatari

1986

9.0

Tuesday Suspense Theater

1981

Zoku zoku jiken

1980

Mizuiro no toki

1975

as 松宮知子

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen

1951

as Self - Performer

8.0

オレの愛妻物語