is a

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. She has won three

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: 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

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for '' Eien no 1/2''. At the

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she won the award for Best Actress for her role in '' Owl''. She has received a total of 12 nominations. She was the favoured lead actress of director Kaneto Shindo after his previous lead actress,

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, died in 1994, and featured in four of his films from '' Will to Live'' in 1999 to ''

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'' in 2011. Otake has also acted on the stage. She performed during the last segment of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Closing Ceremony along Tokyo’s Suginami Children Chorus, singing the song "''Hoshimeguri no Uta"'' (Star Tour Song) composed by

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, as the

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was extinguished. In 2021, Otake took the lead role of Dr. Ruth Wolff in a Japanese stage adaptation of ''The Doctor''.

Personal life

Otake was born and grew up mostly in Tokyo. In 1982 she married Seiji Hattori, a

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director who died in 1987. One year later, Otake married Akashiya Sanma, but got divorced in 1992. In the early 1990s Otake lived with playwright Hideki Noda. Otake has two children, Nichika, a son by Hattori and Imaru, a daughter by Sanma. After her divorce she kept custody.

Filmography

Film

Television

Dubbing

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'' (1979 TBS edition), Maria (

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Commercials

In 2012, she became a representative for NTT DoCoMo's "Raku-Raku Smartphone", a

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aimed at the over-55s.

Honours

*Kinuyo Tanaka Award (1992) * Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011)

References

External links

* * 1957 births Living people 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses People from Tokyo Asadora lead actors Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon {{Japan-actor-stub