Tomoko Naraoka
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.
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded...
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The Imperial Navy
as Utako HongoA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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May Love Be Restored
as Masa KunugidaA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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Railroad Man
as Mune KatoA railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of...
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Dodes'ka-den
as OchôThis film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...
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Pigs and Battleships
as Hotel Cherry's WifeIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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Ballad of Orin
as TeruyoA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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Spring Bell
as uncreditedRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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The Zen Diary
as ChieTsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he...
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Noh Mask Murders
as Aya GondoThe patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...
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Night Drum
as OrinFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as uncreditedIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
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Demon
as MatsukoShuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways,...
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The Firefly
as uncreditedJapanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look...
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Everything Goes Wrong
as Masayo SugitaEverything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man....
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Children of Hiroshima
as uncreditedShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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The Earth is Born Again
as YoshikoA dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This...
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Free and Easy 9
as uncreditedHama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very...
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The Heart
as Kume, the maidIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...
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Half a Confession
as Dr. TakakiHalf a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into...
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My Sons
as uncreditedTetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has...
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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Tatara Samurai
as MizuhoIn 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his...
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The Scent of Incense
as Ezaki's wifeAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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Ruthless Gambler
as uncreditedUnlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and...
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Free and Easy 15
as uncreditedHama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company...
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Railways
as Kinuyo TsutsuiA heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties...
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Free and Easy 18
as uncreditedHama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up...
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Apart from Life
as MitsukoA film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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Free and Easy 16
as uncreditedHama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to...
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The Song of the Cart
as uncreditedA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Takatsu River
as uncreditedSet along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river,...
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War and Youth
as Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ikAn auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Hisue SuzukiMr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to...
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Izakaya Moheji 4
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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Eddy Currents of Life
as Mino HayashiIt is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study...
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Disconcerto
as 曾根田菊子Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
as uncreditedJapanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the...
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Izakaya Moheji 2
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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Free and Easy 17
as uncreditedYumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
as Zensaku's wifeZensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war...
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Gambler's Dilemma
as KeiThe love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
as MotherA young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a...
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Take Me Away!
as Matsuko IshiguroKyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Narrator (voice)TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.
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Izakaya Moheji
as uncreditedA small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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The Song of the Season
as uncreditedA touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her...
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Gambling Den Desire
as uncreditedIn a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo...
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Ikebana
as NarratorThe history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look...
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Free and Easy 10
as uncreditedSu-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar...
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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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The Song of Love
as uncreditedHeartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her...
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Skinny and Fatty
as Mrs. KomatsuTwo young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
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I Will Challenge
as uncreditedAkira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of...
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Izakaya Moheji 3
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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Mahiru no yuugai
as uncreditedA suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who...
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Your Life
as uncreditedA moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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THE LAST GOZE
as uncreditedA "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the...
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Morning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
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I'll Never Cry!
as uncreditedThe rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in...
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The Sweet Interns
as uncreditedThe love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
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Beautiful Calendar
as uncreditedYajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school,...
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Ishigassen
as uncreditedAcross the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
as uncreditedA youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
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The Stars and I Decided...
as Michiyo AmemiyaThe brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of...
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Haru no Sakamichi
as NeneThe story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
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Life of a Flower
as OseiThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Antarctica
as Narrator (voice)Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied...
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Julie the Wild Rose
as NarrationEleven-year-old Julie Braun lives in the lush green mountain pastures of Austria's Southern...
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The Autumn in Tokyo
as uncreditedA unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of...
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