Noriko Honma
Acting
Born: November 29, 1911 · Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Died: April 12, 2009 (aged 97)
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Biography
Noriko Honma (本間文子 Honma Noriko, born 29 November 1911 - 12 April 2009) is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She was born in Hokkaido. She worked in many of Akira Kurosawa's films, first appearing in Kurosawa's Rashomon as the Miko, also in Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Akahige, and Dreams.
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Movies (68)
Seven Samurai
Woman Farmer
Ikiru
Housewife
Red Beard
Resident
Dreams
1990
Rhapsody in August
Mourner
Rashomon
Medium
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Itako
Yojimbo
Farmer's Ex-wife
Stray Dog
Wooden Tub Shop woman
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Mineko
Akebono sō no satsujin
1957
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
(uncredited)
I Live in Fear
Worker family member
Varan the Unbelievable
Ken's Mom
Madadayo
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Mother
Mino Hirai
Varan
Ken's Mom
Brother and Sister
1953
Come Back Soon
1957
G.I. Samurai
Old Woman
Untamed Woman
Otora, the foster mother
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
All About Marriage
Mariko's Mother
The Big Boss
Mineo's Aunt
Husband and Wife
1953
Mariko's Autobiography: Flowing Constellation
1959
Marital Relations
1955
Anything For Success
1962
Snow-Flake
Itakura's mother
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Nanny
A Wife's Heart
1956
The Blue Pearl
Riu's mother
Adolescence Part II
(uncredited)
The Lone Journey
1955
Summer Clouds
1958
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Hostess
The Surf
Old Woman of O-Haru
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953
Girls in the Orchard
1953
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Town of Violence
Sanpei's mother
All Sold Out
1956
The End of the Night
1953
Oh, Bomb!
Matsuko - Shiitake's wife
Someday I'll Know
1959
Wife
1953
Last of the Wild Ones
1954
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
Composition Class
Aunt
You Can If You Try
1965
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
Tetsu (Zen's wife)
People of Tokyo, Goodbye
Natsu, Chiya's Mother (uncredited)
Ditch
1954
Their Father's Wife
1953
Kiriko no unmei
1962
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956
The Ataka Family
Otoku
Nightshade Flower
1951
Monstrous! Who Am I?!
1969
Fox and Raccoon
Sada
Sisters at the Hot Springs
1956
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
石ころの唄
1962
The Homely Sister
Tea shop old woman
The Whole Family Works
Ishimura's wife
Start Here
Kitamura’s Mother
Blue Buds
Fusae (Kazuko’s mother)