Awards & Winners

Nobuko Otowa

Date of Birth 01-October-1924
Place of Birth Yonago
(Japan, Chūgoku region, Tottori Prefecture)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Nabuko Otowa, Nobuko Kaji, Nobuko Otawa, しんどう のぶこ, かじ のぶこ, Kaji Nobuko, 乙羽 信子, 加治 信子, 新藤 信子, Shindo Nobuko, おとわ のぶこ, Nobuko Kaji, Nobuko Otawa, Otowa Nobuko, 新藤 信子, 加治 信子, オカジ
Profession Actor
Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She gave up a career as a star to appear in Story of a Beloved Wife and became the mistress of the director Kaneto Shindo. She later married him in 1977 after his previous wife divorced him and then died. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production. Half of her ashes are scattered on the island of Sukune in Mihara, Hiroshima where The Naked Island was filmed.

Awards by Nobuko Otowa

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nobuko Otowa.

1996


Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Honored for : A Last Note

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role A Last Note

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role The Life of Chikuzan