is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include ''

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'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''

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'' (2010), Terajima won the

Silver Bear for Best Actress The Silver Bear for Best Actress (german: Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chos ...

at the

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while her performance in '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) earned her an

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nomination for

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Early life

Her father is the

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actor Onoe Kikugorō VII, her mother the actress

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, and her brother the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V.

Career

Terajima appeared in

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's ''

Happy Flight is a Japanese comedy film directed by Shinobu Yaguchi about pilots and flight attendants. All Nippon Airways (ANA) backed the creation of the film. The airline sponsored a giveaway of ''Happy Flight'' DVDs and other items to certain members of ANA ...

''.

Personal life

In 2007, she married Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director based in Japan. The couple have one son, born in 2012. In an interview with

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, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor.

Filmography

Films

* ''

'' (2003) * '' Get Up!'' (2003) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * '' Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''It's Only Talk'' (2006) * ''Ai no Rukeichi'' (2006) * ''

'' (2008) as Reiko Yamazaki * ''Rush Life'' (2009) * ''

'' (2010) * ''The Fallen Angel'' (2010) * '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate'' (2012) * '' Helter Skelter'' (2012) * '' Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship'' (2012) * ''The Millennial Rapture'' (2012) * ''Japan's Tragedy'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2013) * ''The Shell Collector'' (2016) * ''Star Sand'' (2016) * ''Haha'' (2017), Seki Kobayashi * '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2018), Omine * ''Sakura'' (2020), Tsubomi Hasegawa * ''A Family'' (2021) * ''It's a Flickering Life'' (2021) * ''Arc'' (2021) * ''Intolerance'' (2021) * ''2 Women'' (2022), Miharu Osanai * ''The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn'' (2022), Keiko Tenma

Television

* ''

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'' (2010), Sakamoto Otome * '' Here Comes Asa!'' (2015), Rie Imai * ''The Supporting Actors 2'' (2018) * '' Idaten'' (2019), Tokuyo Nikaidō * ''Poison Daughter, Holy Mother'' (2019) * ''

Earwig and the Witch is a 2020 Japanese computer-animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki and with a screenplay by Keiko Niwa and Emi Gunji. It is based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones. The original voice cast includes Shinobu Terajima, ...

'' (2020), Bella Yaga (voice) * ''The Supporting Actors 3'' (2021), Herself * ''Modern Love Tokyo'' (2022) * ''

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'' (2023), narrator

References

External links

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shinobu terajima official website
1972 births Japanese film actresses Living people Actresses from Kyoto Silver Bear for Best Actress winners 21st-century Japanese actresses {{Japan-film-actor-stub