Noriko Honma
Birthday: 1911-11-29
Place of Birth: Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
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.
Movies
Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife....
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Rhapsody in August
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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The Homely Sister
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to...
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The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Varan the Unbelievable
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military comma...
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Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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Brother and Sister
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a co...
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The Whole Family Works
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Composition Class
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contes...
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The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a g...
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Oh, Bomb!
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida...
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Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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Nightshade Flower
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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Varan
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists g...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
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Adolescence Part II
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education....
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...
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Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t...
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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
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Elephant from "Zoo Story"
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of...
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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Blue Buds
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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The End of the Night
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a b...
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