Shinobu Otake

Shinobu Otake (born July 17, 1957 in Shinagawa, Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and voice actress of Homily in Arrietty (2010), Mrs. Kurokawa in The Wind Rises (2013) and Aiko in The Boy and the Heron (2023). 
She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Railroad Man, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (The Incident) 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 was the favoured lead actress of director Kaneto Shindo after his previous lead actress, Nobuko Otowa, died in 1994, and featured in four of his films from Will to Live in 1999 to Postcard in 2011.
==Filmography==
*Arrietty - Homily
*The Wind Rises - Mrs. Kurokawa
*The Boy and the Heron - Aiko
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Category:Japanese voice actress
Category:Arrietty cast
Category:The Wind Rises cast
Category:The Boy and the Heron cast