Arrietty's mother. She worries so much about her husband's and daughter's safety, especially her daughter's.   ~!She loves her house so much and was very upset when her husband decided that they should move out because they were seen by human beings.!~   ~!She was captured by Haru and rescued by Arrietty with Sho's help!~

Kiwa is the old lady who takes in Yui and Hiyori to live together at "Mayoiga". She has a strange power to talk to youkai called the "Mysterious".

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Shinobu Otake is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: 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 Hochi Film Award for Eien no 1/2. At the 25th Moscow International Film Festival 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, Nobuko Otowa, died in 1994, and featured in several of his films from A Last Note in 1995 to Postcard in 2011.

Shinobu Ootake

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