Tomoko Naraoka
Acting
Born: December 1, 1929 · Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died: March 23, 2023 (aged 93)
Highest Rated
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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Movies (87)
Ponyo
Yoshie (voice)
Dodes'ka-den
Ochô
Railroad Man
Mune Kato
Spring Bell
Katsuko Naganuma
Demon
Matsuko
May Love Be Restored
Masa Kunugida
The Imperial Navy
Utako Hongo
Pigs and Battleships
Hotel Cherry's Wife
Ballad of Orin
Teruyo
THE LAST GOZE
2020
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
Natsue Tokuhisa
Half a Confession
Dr. Takaki
Children of Hiroshima
1952
My Sons
1991
Free and Easy 16
2005
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Hisue Suzuki
The Zen Diary
Chie
Everything Goes Wrong
Masayo Sugita
Tatara Samurai
Mizuho
The Firefly
2001
The Scent of Incense
Ezaki's wife
The Wolves
1955
Take Me Away!
Matsuko Ishiguro
Free and Easy 17
2006
Free and Easy 15
2004
300 Million Yen Robbery
Yoshiko Takeda
Disconcerto
Kikuko Soneda
Railways
Kinuyo Tsutsui
Mahiru no yūkai
1961
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
1961
The Heart
Kume, the maid
Gambler's Dilemma
Kei
River of Fireflies
1987
Izakaya Moheji 3
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Hymn to a Tired Man
Miyo Mukaizaka
The Bride is Fifteen
1964
Noh Mask Murders
Aya Gondo
Free and Easy 18
2007
A Fool's Love
Hatsuko
The Stars and I Decided...
Michiyo Amemiya
Yukiko
1955
War and Youth
Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
Your Life
1966
Izakaya Moheji 4
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Wings of Icarus' Flight
Mother
Twenty-Four Eyes
Narrator (voice)
Night Drum
Orin
Free and Easy 10
1998
Ruthless Gambler
1969
Free and Easy 9
1997
Call My Black Dice
Kane Kawano (Kawano's wife)
The Takatsu River
2019
Miniature
1953
Skinny and Fatty
Mrs. Komatsu
Apart from Life
Mitsuko
マルゴォの杯
1988
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
The Song of Love
1965
The Witness' Chair
Hiroko Kuzuhara
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
The Earth is Born Again
Yoshiko
Gambling Den Desire
1970
The Sweet Interns
1968
Sea of Wandering
1990
I'll Never Cry!
1966
Eddy Currents of Life
Mino Hayashi
I Will Challenge
1959
Izakaya Moheji 2
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
The Song of the Cart
1959
Ishigassen
1955
Ikebana
Narrator
The Song of the Season
1961
Izakaya Moheji 5
2016
Let's find your sweetheart
1967
Asu no hanayome
1962
Izakaya Moheji
2011
The Flame of Devotion
1964
Izakaya Moheji 6
2017
Beautiful Calendar
1963
Aoime no Sugao
1961
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
Osaka no kaze
1958
Morning Fog
1971
A Love that Wagers the World
Sachiko Muraoka
Ningen no sabaku
1990
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
