Shinobu Otake
Birthday: 1957-07-17
Place of Birth: Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special
Coin Laundry Story: Hashimoto Manabu is a temporary worker who has been laid off and has no choice ...
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The Boy and the Heron
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is reloc...
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Tracing Jake
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in man...
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Hell Dogs
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriendin...
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Harikomi
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ...
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Cymbeline
In William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," King Cymbeline is furious when his only daughter, Inogen, marr...
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Monument to Holy Service
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
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Seasonal Wind
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiratio...
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Who Were We?
On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the f...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protect...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrad...
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Galaxy Turnpike
Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects E...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by th...
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Oh, My Son!
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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Our Little Sister
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...
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Before the Vigil
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though ...
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Like Asura
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a privat...
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Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town
Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, b...
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Black Widow Business
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug...
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant....
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when...
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The Black House
A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the f...
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Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his...
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Surely Someday
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spe...
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GO
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society t...
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Arigato, Okan
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years...
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Gonin 2
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama bu...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual s...
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Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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Then Summer Came
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “go...
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Ritual
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorro...
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Original Sin
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an es...
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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The Secret World of Arrietty
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their ...
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Into the Faraway Sky
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this...
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A Night In Nude: Salvation
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, re...
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Mahjong Horoki
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a...
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Castle Under Fiery Skies
The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, whe...
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Owl
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to ...
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Children of Nagasaki
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and h...
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Twelve Months
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. On...
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Round About Midnight
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into ...
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Sanada 10 Braves
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...
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Teacher and Three Children
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on...
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Mary and The Witch's Flower
Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat ...
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Returning the Favor
Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, ...
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My Darling Is a Foreigner
Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationshi...
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The Empty Table
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist k...
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The Wind Rises
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...
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Nomitori Samurai
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion...
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Eien no 1/2
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. ...
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14 Up Japan
This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off M...
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7 Up Japan
This is the first in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Mi...
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Forget Me Not
A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a decli...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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A Tale of Young Elopement
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with...
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Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41
A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their con...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Shadowfall
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a ...
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The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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Otakus in Love
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay....
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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Stay or go?
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One ...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were ...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, h...
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Lover, Come Back to Me
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but f...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technic...
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The love song of farewell later
A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting locat...
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Pieta in the Toilet
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows...
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that o...
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Megumi no Sekai
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is h...
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Dangerous Women
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase...
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Keijitachi no Natsu
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corr...
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In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa
A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed "entertainment" inflicted on women...
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