Name
Tomoko Naraoka
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1929-12-01
Deathday
2023-03-23 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子 Naraoka Tomoko, born December 1, 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.
Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel Naomi. In 1981 she appeared in Rengō Kantai (lit. "Combined Fleet", United States title: The Imperial Navy). She also appeared in Torajirō Sarada Kinenbi (a 1988 movie in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series) as well as eight films in the Tsuribaka Nisshi series. Naraoka has appeared in several NHK Taiga dramas. Her first was the 1969 Ten to Chi to, in the role of the wife of Uesugi Sadazane. She portrayed Kita no Mandokoro (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in Haru no Sakamichi (1971). Her next Taiga drama appearance was in 1976 in Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. She narrated the 1986 Inochi and 1989 Kasuga no Tsubone. She is the narrator of the 2008 drama Atsuhime. Other noteworthy narration roles include the 1983 serialized morning television drama Oshin. She also narrated Onna wa Dokyō (1992) and Haru Yo Koi (1994–1995). A nonfiction voice role was in the series Kiwameru: Nihon no Bi to Kokoro.
Known For
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Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a busines...
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On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a ...
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In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the ...
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A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memor...
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A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sink...
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Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a...
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An essayist, he finds peace in his mountain life. His routine is pleasantly disturbed by o...
- 1980 Wings of Icarus' Flight as Mother
- 2020 THE LAST GOZE
- 2008 Ponyo as Yoshie (voice)
- 1963 Beautiful Calendar
- 1962 Nuki uchi fūraibō
- 1999 Railroad Man as Mune Kato
- 1985 Spring Bell as Katsuko Naganuma
- 2022 The Zen Diary as Chie
- 1957 Ikebana as Narrator
- 1971 Morning Fog
- 1970 Apart from Life as Mitsuko
- 1985 Demon as Matsuko
- 1960 Everything Goes Wrong as Masayo Sugita
- 1977 Ballad of Orin as Teruyo
- 1968 Hymn to a Tired Man as Miyo Mukaizaka
- 1970 Gambling Den Desire
- 1955 Yukiko
- 1966 Your Life
- 2014 Disconcerto as Kikuko Soneda
- 1962 Asu no hanayome
- 2004 Half a Confession as Dr. Takaki
- 2004 Free and Easy 15
- 2010 Railways as Kinuyo Tsutsui
- 1959 I Will Challenge
- 2001 The Firefly
- 1970 Dodes'ka-den as Ochô
- 1969 Ruthless Gambler
- 2006 Free and Easy 17
- 1961 Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
- 1956 How Sorrowful
- 1958 Night Drum as Orin
- 1966 Cry for Sorrow
- 2013 Izakaya Moheji 2 as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
- 2015 Izakaya Moheji 4 as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
- 2014 Izakaya Moheji 3 as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
- 2017 Tatara Samurai as Mizuho
- 1987 River of Fireflies
- 1958 Skinny and Fatty as Mrs. Komatsu
- 1952 Children of Hiroshima
- 1997 Free and Easy 9
- 1955 The Wolves
- 1961 The Song of the Season
- 1962 Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love as Natsue Tokuhisa
- 1965 The Song of Love
- 1966 I'll Never Cry!
- 1972 Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
- 2001 Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Hisue Suzuki
- 1998 Free and Easy 10
- 2005 Free and Easy 16
- 2014 300 Million Yen Robbery as Yoshiko Takeda
- 1964 Eddy Currents of Life as Mino Hayashi
- 1955 The Heart as Kume, the maid
- 1965 The Stars and I Decided... as Michiyo Amemiya
- 1980 May Love Be Restored as Masa Kunugida
- 1980 Twenty-Four Eyes as Narrator (voice)
- 1949 A Fool's Love as Hatsuko
- 2016 Izakaya Moheji 5
- 2017 Izakaya Moheji 6
- 2011 Izakaya Moheji
- 1978 Take Me Away! as Matsuko Ishiguro
- 1991 War and Youth as Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
- 1968 The Sweet Interns
- 1964 The Scent of Incense as Ezaki's wife
- 1953 Miniature
- 1981 The Imperial Navy as Utako Hongo
- 2007 Free and Easy 18
- 1991 Noh Mask Murders as Aya Gondo
- 1988 Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
- 1969 Gambler's Dilemma as Kei
- 2019 The Takatsu River
- 1958 Osaka no kaze
- 1961 Mahiru no yūkai
- 1988 マルゴォの杯
- 1965 The Witness' Chair as Hiroko Kuzuhara
- 1966 Kokoro no sanmyaku
- 1961 Pigs and Battleships as Hotel Cherry's Wife
- 1959 The Song of the Cart
- 1955 Ishigassen
- 1991 My Sons
- 1971 The Earth is Born Again as Yoshiko
- 1961 Aoime no Sugao
- 1964 The Bride is Fifteen
- 1964 The Flame of Devotion
- 1990 Ningen no sabaku
- 1967 Let's find your sweetheart
- 1959 A Love that Wagers the World as Sachiko Muraoka
- 1990 Sea of Wandering
- 1969 Ex Convict: Sword Storm
- 1964 Call My Black Dice as Kane Kawano (Kawano's wife)
- 1971 Haru no Sakamichi ( 52 episodes ) as Nene
- 1963 Life of a Flower ( 39 episodes ) as Osei
- 1970 ありがとう ( 135 episodes ) as 鶴田清子
- 1979 Julie the Wild Rose ( 13 episodes ) as Narration
- 1985 The Autumn in Tokyo ( 2 episodes )
- 2011 Antarctica ( 10 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 Princess Go ( 46 episodes ) as Ōmandokoro / Naka
