Shinobu Terajima
Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) and Vibrator (2003). For her role in Caterpillar (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in Oh Lucy!
Also recorded as Sinobu Terazima · Terajima Shinobu
Shinobu Terajima
Dick Thomas Johnson · CC BY 2.0
- Born
- 1972 · Kyoto.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- actress
- Education
- Shōtō Preschool · Faculty of Literature and Aoyama Gakuin University
- Honours
- Silver Bear for Best Actress · Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year · Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress · Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō · Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress · Kinuyo Tanaka Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) and Vibrator (2003). For her role in Caterpillar (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in Oh Lucy!
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Shinobu Terajima (born 1972) is an actor, actress and film actor, of Japanese nationality. The actor was born in Kyoto. Shinobu Terajima was educated at Faculty of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University and Shōtō Preschool.
Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress, Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year and Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō, among others.
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Early life
Early life
(2017) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.
Shinobu Terajima studied at Shōtō Preschool and Faculty of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University. The recorded working language is Japanese. Distinctions recorded are Silver Bear for Best Actress, Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress and Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō.
Her father is the kabuki actor Nanadaime Onoe Kikugorō, her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VIII. She is also the granddaughter of Onoe Baikō VII, a renowned Kabuki actor considered one of the leading onnagata (i.e., a Kabuki actor who plays exclusively female roles) of the Showa era and father of Kikugorō VII (Terajima's father).
Career
Career
As a child, she aspired to be a Kabuki actress like her family, but she was forbidden from pursuing this path because Kabuki was exclusively for men, and her brother Kinosuke was born. In 1992, she joined a theater group thanks to Taichi Kiwako, who was a good friend of her parents. Terajima appeared in Shinobu Yaguchi's Happy Flight.
Personal life
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 The Japan Times, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor.
Television
Television
• Ryōmaden (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 (2020), Bella Yaga (voice) • The Supporting Actors 3 (2021), Herself • Modern Love Tokyo (2022) • What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), narrator/Lady Kasuga
Filmography ===== Films =
• Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) • Get Up! (2003) • Vibrator (2003) • Quill (2004) • Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) • Tokyo Tower (2005) • Yamato (2005) • It's Only Talk (2006) • Ai no Rukeichi (2006) • Happy Flight (2008) as Reiko Yamazaki • Rush Life (2009) • Caterpillar (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) • R100 (2013) • The Shell Collector (2016) • Star Sand (2016) • Haha (2017), Seki Kobayashi • Oh Lucy! (2017) • Flea-picking Samurai (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 • My Mom, My Angel: A Journey of Love and Acceptance (2024) • The Parades (2024), Kaori • Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality (2024), Ohyaku • Kokuho (2025), Sachiko Ōgaki • Hokusai's Daughter (2025), Koto
Honours
• Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2023)
Notes ==== References ==== External links
Notes ==== References ==== External links
* • shinobu terajima official website
第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 寺島しのぶ (アリー/スター誕生)
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Terajima Shinobu from "A Star Is Born" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2018
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- 1.10-year-old Maholo Terajima is the new face of kabuki theatre. Timeout. 2023-02-16.
- 2.Berlin International Film Festival. Berlinale - Festival - Awards & Juries - International Jury.
- 3.Nippon Communications Foundation. Her Strength Is No Act: An Interview with Actress Terajima Shinobu. Nippon.com. 26 September 2014.
- 4.「どこまで欲が深いんだろう」――女優として母として、寺島しのぶの生き方. Yahoo!ニュース.
- 5.女性の本性を描ける監督に出会いたい―国際派女優・寺島しのぶ. nippon.com. 27 August 2014.
- 6.Schilling, Mark. Airplane flick tells only half the story. The Japan Times. November 14, 2008.
- 7.Her Strength Is No Act: An Interview with Actress Terajima Shinobu. Nippon.com. September 26, 2014.
- 8.Shoji, Kaori. Terajima brings legacy to TIFF. The Japan Times.
- 9.綾野剛×舘ひろし「ヤクザと家族 The Family」映像初公開！尾野真千子＆北村有起哉＆市原隼人も参戦. eiga.com.
- 10.キネマの神様. eiga.com.
- 11.芳根京子が石川慶の監督作「Arc」で不老不死に、寺島しのぶや岡田将生ら共演. Natalie.
- 12.空白. eiga.com.
- 13.あちらにいる鬼. eiga.com.
- 14.天間荘の三姉妹. eiga.com.
- 15.わたしのかあさん 天使の詩. eiga.com.
- 16.パレード. eiga.com.
- 17.八犬伝. eiga.com.
- 18.吉沢亮主演・横浜流星共演、映画『国宝』に渡辺謙出演 大河主演俳優そろい踏み 高畑充希・森七菜・見上愛も【コメントあり】. Oricon.
- 19.おーい、応為. eiga.com.
- 20.龍馬伝. Haiyaku Jiten.
- 21.寺島しのぶ『いだてん』出演 「新風を吹き込んでいる」と中村勘九郎を援護射撃. Oricon.
- 22.『モダンラブ・東京』新キャストに高良健吾、三浦透子ら 本予告＆キービジュアルも公開. Real Sound. 21 September 2022.
- 23.『どうする家康』で"語り"務める寺島しのぶ、春日局役で出演決定！ 鈴木杏も2度目の大河参戦へ. Crank-in!. 27 November 2023.
- 24.【田中絹代賞】寺島しのぶ 史上初の母娘受賞「光栄なこと」第54回の母・富司純子に続いた. Sponichi.
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