
Shinobu Ôtake
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 and Best Supporting Actress.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.125 |
Birthday | 1957-07-17 |
Place of Birth | Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | Shinobu Ohtake, Ōtake Shinobu, Ohtake Shinobu, Shinobu Ootake, 오타케 시노부, 大竹 しのぶ, Shinobu Ōtake, Shinobu Otake, |

2020

Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special
7/1
Coin Laundry
Story: Hashimoto Manabu is a temporary worker who has been laid off and has no choice but to live on part-time work. One day, he finishe...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special

2023

The Boy and the Heron
7.5/2061
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his ne...
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The Boy and the Heron

2004

Tracing Jake
7/1
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to trav...
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Tracing Jake

2022

Hell Dogs
7.1/57
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
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Hell Dogs

1999

蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
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蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

1991

Harikomi
2/1
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
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Harikomi

2012

Cymbeline
0/0
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Cymbeline

2004

Mourning Becomes Electra
0/0
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Mourning Becomes Electra

1978

Monument to Holy Service
0/0
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Monument to Holy Service

1995

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
6/1
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Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

1977

Seasonal Wind
0/0
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...
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Seasonal Wind

2024

Who Were We?
0/0
On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the facility and takes the woman to her home. The woman...
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Who Were We?

1995

The August Screams
0/0
The story of a man and woman dealing with amnesia, set in Prague.
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The August Screams

1995

北の国から ’95秘密 後編
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2016

Black Widow Business
8.5/2
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marri...
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Black Widow Business

2015

Galaxy Turnpike
6.8/5
Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and the space colony Uzushio.
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Galaxy Turnpike

2015

Our Little Sister
7.6/491
Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, th...
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Our Little Sister

2013

Leaving on the 15th Spring
6.6/8
Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is...
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Leaving on the 15th Spring

2013

Before the Vigil
6/3
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her...
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Before the Vigil

2010

Surely Someday
5.8/6
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's u...
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Surely Someday

2010

Postcard
5.4/10
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war...
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Postcard

2009

Castle Under Fiery Skies
8.5/12
The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle...
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Castle Under Fiery Skies

2008

Then Summer Came
4/1
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are...
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Then Summer Came

2010

Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
5.3/3
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home co...
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!

2010

The Secret World of Arrietty
7.665/2883
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's hu...
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The Secret World of Arrietty

2007

Into the Faraway Sky
7/1
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably p...
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Into the Faraway Sky

2007

Welcome to the Quiet Room
6.7/24
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatr...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room

1999

The Black House
6.3/11
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to kno...
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The Black House

1999

Railroad Man
7/41
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is...
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Railroad Man

1999

Will to Live
6.3/6
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for...
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Will to Live

1990

Kinpira
0/0
A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.
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Kinpira

2000

Ritual
7.6/80
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicat...
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Ritual

2007

Kitokito!
0/0
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
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Kitokito!

2001

GO
7.373/83
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
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GO

1977

Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.7/3
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid

2003

Like Asura
6.8/13
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.
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Like Asura

2012

Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town
0/0
Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan's fastest declining city. Home...
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Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town

2010

A Night in Nude: Salvation
6.5/10
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. W...
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A Night in Nude: Salvation

2008

Arigato, Okan
0/0
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alon...
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Arigato, Okan

2003

Owl
7/5
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to st...
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Owl

1996

Gonin 2
7/12
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and...
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Gonin 2

1992

Original Sin
4.7/7
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
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Original Sin

1984

Mahjong Horoki
6.5/4
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
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Mahjong Horoki

1983

Children of Nagasaki
6.2/6
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
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Children of Nagasaki

1980

Child of the Sun
0/0
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interact...
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Child of the Sun

1980

Twelve Months
6.7/17
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she do...
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Twelve Months

1975

The Gate of Youth
9/1
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every...
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The Gate of Youth

1978

The Incident
6.3/3
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2
8/1
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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The Gate of Youth Part 2

1979

Oh, My Son!
5.2/5
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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Oh, My Son!

1999

Round About Midnight
6.8/8
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers...
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Round About Midnight

1980

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
0/0
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

2016

Sanada 10 Braves
7.6/12
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior...
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Sanada 10 Braves

2008

Teacher and Three Children
6/1
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Teacher and Three Children

2017

Mary and The Witch's Flower
7.1/806
Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange f...
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Mary and The Witch's Flower

2006

Returning the Favor
7.1/4
Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling...
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Returning the Favor

1992

Yonigeya hompo
3/1
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Yonigeya hompo

2010

My Darling Is a Foreigner
5.694/18
Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different...
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My Darling Is a Foreigner

1985

The Empty Table
5.3/3
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Alth...
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The Empty Table

2013

The Wind Rises
7.785/3074
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II figh...
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The Wind Rises

2018

Nomitori Samurai
6.2/11
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to rec...
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Nomitori Samurai

1987

Eien no 1/2
6/1
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then beg...
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Eien no 1/2

1992

7 Up Japan
0/0
This is the first in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted's Up series.
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7 Up Japan

1999

14 Up Japan
0/0
This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted’s Up series.
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14 Up Japan

2010

Forget Me Not
0/0
A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story...
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Forget Me Not

1986

Beyond the Shining Sea
5/1
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cou...
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Beyond the Shining Sea

1987

A Tale of Young Elopement
0/0
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
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A Tale of Young Elopement

2018

Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41
0/0
A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their conversation using cutout animation.
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Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41

1979

Nomugi Pass
6.3/3
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which...
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Nomugi Pass

2019

Shadowfall
5.5/2
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is fac...
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Shadowfall

2009

Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
0/0
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special

1978

The Demon
6.5/34
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
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The Demon

1976

Human Revolution II
0/0
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Human Revolution II

2004

Otakus in Love
5.5/8
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
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Otakus in Love

1993

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
5/8
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

1988

Stay or go?
0/0
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the ga...
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Stay or go?

1976

Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
0/0
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers l...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

2021

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
7.2/56
Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-ye...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

1983

Lover, Come Back to Me
0/0
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on he...
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Lover, Come Back to Me

1998

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
6.2/4
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets o...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

1991

The love song of farewell later
0/0
A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction....
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The love song of farewell later

2015

Pieta in the Toilet
6.9/18
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live...
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Pieta in the Toilet

2021

The House of the Lost on the Cape
6.8/21
A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks the sea. However, when a menacing entity...
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The House of the Lost on the Cape

1990

Megumi no Sekai
0/0
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is qu...
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Megumi no Sekai

1985

Dangerous Women
0/0
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and...
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Dangerous Women

1999

Keijitachi no Natsu
0/0
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.
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Keijitachi no Natsu

2012

fukusuke
0/0
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