Career
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. Otake has also acted on the stage.
In 2012, she became a representative for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone DoCoMo"s "Raku-Raku Smartphone", a smartphone aimed at the over-55s.