Tomoko Naraoka
Birthday: 1929-12-01
Place of Birth: Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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.
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating su...
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THE LAST GOZE
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the sham...
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Ponyo
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish na...
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Beautiful Calendar
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there i...
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Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his...
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Spring Bell
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in N...
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The Zen Diary
Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows ...
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Ikebana
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside...
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Morning Fog
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the...
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Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned ...
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Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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Gambling Den Desire
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is ...
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Your Life
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance....
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Disconcerto
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver fo...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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Free and Easy 15
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces ...
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Railways
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and ...
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I Will Challenge
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his ...
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The Firefly
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decad...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Ruthless Gambler
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi...
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Free and Easy 17
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting marri...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her li...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Cry for Sorrow
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo....
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Izakaya Moheji 2
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nou...
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Izakaya Moheji 4
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nou...
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Izakaya Moheji 3
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nou...
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Tatara Samurai
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his fath...
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River of Fireflies
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma...
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Skinny and Fatty
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends....
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Free and Easy 9
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposi...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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The Song of the Season
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure lo...
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The Song of Love
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician ...
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I'll Never Cry!
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a w...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his ...
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Free and Easy 10
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surro...
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Free and Easy 16
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo an...
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature...
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The Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea...
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The Stars and I Decided...
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of mot...
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May Love Be Restored
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk....
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Twenty-Four Eyes
TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes....
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Izakaya Moheji
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nou...
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Take Me Away!
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not...
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War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the f...
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The Sweet Interns
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students....
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The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Free and Easy 18
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up durin...
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Noh Mask Murders
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will su...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a...
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Gambler's Dilemma
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her fa...
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The Takatsu River
Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this d...
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Mahiru no yūkai
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn'...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan....
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Ishigassen
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villag...
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My Sons
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has alway...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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Aoime no Sugao
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of you...
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The Bride is Fifteen
Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken ...
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The Flame of Devotion
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman...
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Let's find your sweetheart
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts w...
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A Love that Wagers the World
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaok...
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Sea of Wandering
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns...
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