Noriko Honma

Born: 1911-11-29

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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Seven Samurai

as Woman Farmer
Released: 1954-04-26

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...

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Rashomon

as Medium
Released: 1950-08-26

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the...

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Yojimbo

as Farmer's Ex-wife
Released: 1961-04-25

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...

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Ikiru

as Housewife
Released: 1952-10-09

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...

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Stray Dog

as Wooden Tub Shop woman
Released: 1949-10-17

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...

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Red Beard

as Resident
Released: 1965-04-03

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...

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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

as Spiritualist (uncredited)
Released: 1966-12-17

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two...

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Dreams

as uncredited
Released: 1990-05-11

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

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Madadayo

as Old Lady Holding a Cat
Released: 1993-04-17

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida...

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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as (uncredited)
Released: 1956-01-03

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...

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I Live in Fear

as Worker family member
Released: 1955-11-22

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

as Mineko
Released: 1960-01-15

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....

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Rhapsody in August

as Mourner
Released: 1991-05-25

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed...

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G.I. Samurai

as Old Woman
Released: 1979-09-17

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to...

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Varan

as Ken's Mom
Released: 1958-10-14

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of...

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Brother and Sister

as uncredited
Released: 1953-08-19

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with...

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The Big Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-15

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...

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Varan the Unbelievable

as Ken's Mom
Released: 1962-12-07

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military...

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Summer Clouds

as uncredited
Released: 1958-09-02

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...

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Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-29

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...

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A Wife's Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1956-05-03

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...

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Street of Violence

as Sanpei's mother
Released: 1950-02-26

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...

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Battle of the Japan Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1969-08-01

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...

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The Blue Pearl

as Riu's mother
Released: 1951-08-03

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...

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Untamed Woman

as Otora, the foster mother
Released: 1957-05-28

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...

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Where Chimneys Are Seen

as uncredited
Released: 1953-03-05

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a...

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Mother

as Mino Hirai
Released: 1952-06-12

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Husband and Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1953-01-22

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...

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Oh, Bomb!

as Matsuko - Shiitake's wife
Released: 1964-04-18

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying...

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Marital Relations

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-13

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....

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The Lone Journey

as uncredited
Released: 1955-08-31

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...

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Snow-Flake

as Itakura's mother
Released: 1950-05-17

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Kiriko no unmei

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-27

1962 Japanese movie

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Gekkyū dorobō

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-08

1962 Japanese movie

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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

as Hostess
Released: 1957-12-17

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...

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The Surf

as Old Woman of O-Haru
Released: 1954-10-20

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....

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All About Marriage

as Mariko's Mother
Released: 1958-05-26

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...

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Last of the Wild Ones

as uncredited
Released: 1954-06-08

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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Life of a Country Doctor

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-14

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...

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Composition Class

as Aunt
Released: 1938-08-21

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

as Nanny
Released: 1957-07-09

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as...

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Adolescence Part II

as (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-01

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

as uncredited
Released: 1957-07-09

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the...

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Their Father's Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1953-05-27

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Tokyo no hito sayonara

as Natsu, Chiya's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1956-06-28

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Someday I'll Know

as uncredited
Released: 1959-09-08

A modern love story involving different affairs.

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Girls in the Orchard

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-15

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with...

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The Whole Family Works

as Ishimura's wife
Released: 1939-03-11

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are...

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The Homely Sister

as Tea shop old woman
Released: 1967-10-28

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal...

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The Ataka Family

as Otoku
Released: 1952-05-15

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with...

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Nightshade Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1951-01-13

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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The Ditch

as uncredited
Released: 1954-07-27

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...

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