Shinobu Terajima
Shinobu Terajima ( Japanese 寺 島 し の ぶ , Terajima Shinobu ; born December 28, 1972 in Kyoto ) is a Japanese theater and film actress.
Life
Training and first television roles
Shinobu Terajima was born into a family of artists. Her father is the well-known kabuki actor Kikugoro Onoe. Her mother is the film and television actress Sumiko Fuji, who is best known in Japan for her work in yakuza films. Terajima's five years younger brother Onoe Kikunosuke also appears as an actor in traditional Japanese theater. She attended Aoyama Gakuin University , where she was a member of the handball team and studied literature. From the early 1990s she played her first roles in Japanese television productions.
In parallel to her work on television, Terajima became a permanent member of the Bungakuza Theater in 1996, one of the oldest modern theaters in Japan. There she took on roles in such well-known plays as William Gibson's The Way into the Light (1997), Tennessee Williams ' Endstation Sehnsucht (2002) as well as William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) and The Merchant of Venice (2007). She also appeared in modern Japanese pieces such as Shin Tikamatsu Suicide Story (2004) and Shūji Terayama's Blood Sleeps Standing (2010). Terajima won the 2007 Asahi Performing Arts Award and the Yomiuri Engeki Prize for her portrait of the writer Higuchi Ichiyō in the Nitosha production Kaku Onna ( A Writing Woman , 2006) .
Film career
Terajima made her debut in Japanese cinema in 2001 with Hiroshi Sugawara's drama Drug . Her breakthrough as a film actress in her home country paved the way for the following three projects Vibrator , Get Up! and Akame 48 Waterfalls (all 2003). In Ryūichi Hiroki's road movie Vibrator , the film adaptation of an award-winning novel by Mari Akasaka , Terajima slipped into the role of the alcoholic and desperate author Rei, who begins a sexual relationship with a young truck driver (played by Nao Ōmori ). While in Kazuyuki Izutsu's action film Get Up! got the little part of a taxi driver, she took on the lead role of the attractive and cheeky club hostess Aya in Genjirou Arato's drama Akame 48 Waterfalls . Sold to the Yakuza by her criminal and highly indebted brother , she travels with a casual acquaintance (played by Shima Ōnishi ) to the 48 waterfalls of Akame, where she plans to commit suicide.
Vibrator was praised by foreign critics as the Japanese variant of Alice no longer lives here . In Akame 48 Waterfalls, however , Terajima would bring up some of her mother's impressive screen presence and exude eroticism and emotional desire in her own way, according to the trade magazine Screen International . Terajima then received the Blue Ribbon , Kinema-Jumpō , Japanese Academy Award and Mainichi Eiga Concours all of the major Japanese film awards. She was able to build on the previous success with Takashi Minamoto's drama Tokyo Tower (2005), in which, as a desperate housewife, she suffers from the emotional coldness of her husband. She also slipped into the role of the deceptive wife and mother in Yasuo Tsuruhashi's Love Never to End (2007). In the sensational bestseller film adaptation based on Junichi Watanabe , she can be seen as the deathly longing lover of a successful book author.
Terajima made her international breakthrough with the anti-war film Caterpillar (2010), in which she plays the young wife of a soldier (Shima Ōnishi) who had returned from the Sino-Japanese war and who lost both arms and legs in an attack. While her husband abused her before the war, Terajima's character is now forced to do her duty to the emperor and country and to give the war hero a self-sacrificing care. The drama by Kōji Wakamatsu received an invitation to compete at the 60th Berlin Film Festival . For her portrait of Shigeko, Terajima was the third Japanese actress after Sachiko Hidari and Tanaka Kinuyo to be awarded the Silver Bear for best actress at the film festival. Due to a theater engagement in Osaka , the actress could not accept the award herself. She let it be known through director Wakamatsu that she hoped “that one day we will experience a world without wars” and that the film conveyed “that murder and manslaughter are not an answer.” In Japan Terajima's achievement was awarded the Kinema Jumpō Prize and another nomination for the Japanese Academy Award. In 2012 the actress and Kōji Wakamatsu worked together again on the films 11 · 25 jiketsu no hi: Mishima Yukio to wakamono-tachi and Sennen no yuraku .
Shinobu Terajima has been married to the French artist Laurent Ghnassia since 2007.
Filmography (selection)
- 2001: Drug
- 2003: vibrator
- 2003: Geroppa! (Eng. Get Up! )
- 2003: Akame Shijuya Taki Shinju Misui ( Akame 48 Waterfalls )
- 2004: Quill
- 2005: Tokyo Tower
- 2005: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles ( Qiān Lǐ Zǒu Dān Qí )
- 2005: Yawarakai Seikatsu ( It's Only Talk )
- 2005: Daiteiden no Yoru ni ( Until the Lights Come Back )
- 2005: Otoko-tachi no Yamato (English Yamamoto )
- 2006: Akihabara @ DEEP
- 2006: Notebook of Life
- 2007: Ai no Rukeichi ( Love Never to End )
- 2007: Chacha
- 2008: Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō : Sennen noroi uta (Engl. Kitaro and the Millennium Curse )
- 2008: Happy Flight
- 2009: Lush Life
- 2009: Shugo Tenshi
- 2010: Caterpillar
- 2010: Ningen shikkaku
- 2012: 1125 jiketsu no hi: Mishima Yukio to wakamono-tachi
- 2012: Sennen no yuraku
- 2017: Oh Lucy!
Awards
Japanese Academy Award
- 2004: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui
- 2006: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Tokyo Tower
- 2008: Nominated for best leading actress for Ai no rukeichi
- 2011: Nominated Best Actress for Caterpillar
Further
Nippon Connection film festival
- 2018: Nippon Honor Award for her life's work
- 2010: Jury Grand Prix for Caterpillar
Berlin International Film Festival
- 2010 : Best Actress for Caterpillar
- 2004: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator
- 2003: Best Actress for Vibrator
- 2003: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator
Japanese Professional Movie Award
- 2004: Best actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and vibrator (together with Chizuru Ikewaki for Joze to tora to sakana tachi )
- 2004: Best Lead Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator and Best Young Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui , Vibrator and Get Up!
- 2011: Best Actress for Caterpillar
- 2004: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator
- 2003: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator
Tokyo International Film Festival
- 2003: Best Actress for Vibrator (together with Kristy Jean Hulslander for Santa Smokes )
- 2004: Best Actress for Akame shijuya taki shinju misui and Vibrator
Web links
- Yahoo Japan Profile (Japanese)
- Shinobu Terajima in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Major Theater Awards for Japan's 2006 Season Decided at performingarts.jp, February 16, 2007 (accessed February 21, 2010)
- ↑ Schilling, Mark: Vibrator . In: Screen International, January 7, 2004 (accessed on February 21, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ Schilling, Mark: Akame 48 Waterfalls (Akame Shijyuyataki Shinjyumisui) . In: Screen International, February 4, 2004 (accessed on February 21, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ ddp : Golden Bear for the Turkish film "Bal" . February 20, 2010, 9:19 PM GMT (accessed February 21, 2010 via LexisNexis Economy )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terajima, Shinobu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 寺 島 し の ぶ (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese theater and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto |