Cast
Tomoko Naraoka
Acting
Cast
Tomoko Naraoka
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-12-01
From
Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died
2023-03-23
Also known as 奈良岡 朋子
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.
★7.8
MOVIE2008
Ponyo
as Yoshie (voice)
MOVIE1962
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
as Natsue Tokuhisa
★7.1
MOVIE1970
Dodes'ka-den
as Ochô
★7.1
MOVIE1977
Ballad of Orin
as Teruyo
★7.1
MOVIE1999
Railroad Man
as Mune Kato
★7.3
MOVIE1985
Spring Bell
as Katsuko Naganuma
MOVIE2019
The Takatsu River
★6.6
MOVIE1981
The Imperial Navy
as Utako Hongo
★7.1
MOVIE1961
Pigs and Battleships
as Hotel Cherry's Wife
★7.6
MOVIE1985
Demon
as Matsuko
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Hisue Suzuki
MOVIE1969
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
★7.1
MOVIE1952
Children of Hiroshima
MOVIE1955
Ishigassen
★7.0
MOVIE1955
The Heart
as Kume, the maid
★7.0
MOVIE2010
Railways
as Kinuyo Tsutsui
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Noh Mask Murders
as Aya Gondo
MOVIE1964
Call My Black Dice
MOVIE1980
May Love Be Restored
as Masa Kunugida
★7.8
MOVIE1991
My Sons
★6.7
MOVIE2017
Tatara Samurai
as Mizuho
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Free and Easy 17
★6.5
MOVIE2014
300 Million Yen Robbery
as Yoshiko Takeda
★9.0
MOVIE1987
River of Fireflies
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Free and Easy 16
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Skinny and Fatty
as Mrs. Komatsu
★8.0
MOVIE1978
Take Me Away!
as Matsuko Ishiguro
★6.2
MOVIE1970
Apart from Life
as Mitsuko
★5.9
MOVIE1958
Night Drum
as Orin
★7.5
MOVIE2007
Free and Easy 18
★7.2
MOVIE1964
The Scent of Incense
as Ezaki's wife
MOVIE1955
Yukiko
★6.4
MOVIE2014
Disconcerto
as Kikuko Soneda
★7.9
MOVIE2004
Half a Confession
as Dr. Takaki
★7.8
MOVIE1953
Miniature
MOVIE1969
Gambler's Dilemma
as Kei
MOVIE1959
A Love that Wagers the World
as Sachiko Muraoka
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
MOVIE1966
Your Life
★8.0
MOVIE1969
Ruthless Gambler
MOVIE1956
How Sorrowful
★8.3
MOVIE1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
MOVIE1988
マルゴォの杯
★8.3
MOVIE2004
Free and Easy 15
MOVIE1980
Twenty-Four Eyes
as Narrator (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1949
A Fool's Love
as Hatsuko
MOVIE1964
The Bride is Fifteen
★9.0
MOVIE1990
Sea of Wandering
MOVIE1970
Gambling Den Desire
MOVIE2015
Izakaya Moheji 4
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
★7.2
MOVIE2022
The Zen Diary
as Chie
★8.0
MOVIE1968
Hymn to a Tired Man
as Miyo Mukaizaka
★6.7
MOVIE1960
Everything Goes Wrong
as Masayo Sugita
MOVIE1962
Asu no hanayome
MOVIE1961
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
MOVIE1966
Cry for Sorrow
★6.4
MOVIE1957
Ikebana
as Narrator
MOVIE2020
THE LAST GOZE
MOVIE2014
Izakaya Moheji 3
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
MOVIE1967
Let's find your sweetheart
MOVIE1959
I Will Challenge
★6.9
MOVIE1955
The Wolves
★6.5
MOVIE1965
The Witness' Chair
as Hiroko Kuzuhara
MOVIE2013
Izakaya Moheji 2
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
MOVIE1961
The Song of the Season
★6.9
MOVIE1959
The Song of the Cart
MOVIE1964
Eddy Currents of Life
as Mino Hayashi
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Izakaya Moheji 6
★6.8
MOVIE1991
War and Youth
as Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
★7.5
MOVIE2001
The Firefly
MOVIE1965
The Song of Love
MOVIE1961
Mahiru no yūkai
★7.5
MOVIE1997
Free and Easy 9
★6.0
MOVIE2011
Izakaya Moheji
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Free and Easy 10
MOVIE1966
I'll Never Cry!
★6.8
MOVIE1964
The Flame of Devotion
MOVIE1990
Ningen no sabaku
MOVIE1980
Wings of Icarus' Flight
as Mother
★9.0
MOVIE1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
MOVIE1963
Beautiful Calendar
MOVIE1961
Aoime no Sugao
MOVIE1971
Morning Fog
★8.0
MOVIE1968
The Sweet Interns
MOVIE1971
The Earth is Born Again
as Yoshiko
MOVIE2016
Izakaya Moheji 5
MOVIE1962
Nuki uchi fūraibō
MOVIE1965
The Stars and I Decided...
as Michiyo Amemiya
MOVIE1958