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Tomoko Naraoka
Born: 1st Dec 1929 Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan - Died 23rd Mar 2023
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 94
Film: 88 (94%)
Television: 6 (6%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Documentary
Filmography
Original title: 土を喰らう十二ヵ月
2022
An essayist, he finds peace in his mountain life. His routine is pleasantly disturbed by occasional visits from Machiko, his editor and love interest, ... view
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Chie
Original title: 瞽女 GOZE
2020
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a go ... view
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Original title: 高津川
2019
Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area bur ... view
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Original title: たたら侍
2017
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samur ... view
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Mizuho
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ4
2015
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro ... view
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Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Original title: まほろ駅前狂騒曲
2014
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school cl ... view
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Kikuko Soneda
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ3
2014
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro ... view
Character:
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ2
2013
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro ... view
Character:
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Oct 2011 (first aired)
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (10 ep.)
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ
2011
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment…for their bodies and their souls. The p ... view
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Original title: RAILWAYS 49歳で電車の運転士になった男の物語
2010
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Ha ... view
Character:
Kinuyo Tsutsui
Original title: 崖の上のポニョ
2008
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for ... view
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Yoshie (voice)
Original title: 釣りバカ日誌18 ハマちゃんスーさん瀬戸の約束
2007
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman. ... view
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Original title: 釣りバカ日誌17 あとは能登なれ ハマとなれ!
2006
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her. ... view
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Original title: 釣りバカ日誌16 浜崎は今日もダメだった♪♪
2005
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing. ... view
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Original title: 釣りバカ日誌15 ハマちゃんに明日はない!？
2004
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process. ... view
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Original title: 半落ち
2004
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara ... view
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Dr. Takaki
Original title: 釣りバカ日誌12 史上最大の有給休暇
2001
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and H ... view
Character:
Hisue Suzuki
Original title: ホタル
2001
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provi ... view
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Original title: 鉄道員
1999
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is ... view
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Mune Kato
Original title: 釣りバカ日誌10
1998
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job. ... view
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Original title: 釣りバカ日誌9
1997
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The v ... view
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Original title: 息子
1991
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, bu ... view
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Original title: 戦争と青春
1991
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, ... view
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Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
Original title: 天河伝説殺人事件
1991
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater ... view
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Aya Gondo
Original title: 流転の海
1990
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel o ... view
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Original title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎サラダ記念日
1988
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship. ... view
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Original title: 螢川
1987
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcomi ... view
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Nov 1985 (first aired)
A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in Tokorozawa, Saitama, while exploring the ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: 春の鐘
1985
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, d ... view
Character:
Katsuko Naganuma
Original title: 夜叉
1985
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal ... view
Character:
Matsuko
Original title: 連合艦隊
1981
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri ... view
Character:
Utako Hongo
Original title: 二十四の瞳
1980
TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes. ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Original title: 五番町夕霧楼
1980
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk. ... view
Character:
Masa Kunugida
Original title: 翔べイカロスの翼
1980
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat ... view
Character:
Mother
Jan 1979 (first aired)
Eleven-year-old Julie Braun lives in the lush green mountain pastures of Austria's Southern Tyrol. Her parents are killed by Italian soldiers, and she ... view
Character:
Narration (13 ep.)
Original title: ふりむけば愛
1978
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Toky ... view
Character:
Matsuko Ishiguro
Original title: はなれ瞽女おりん
1977
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her. ... view
Character:
Teruyo
Original title: 海軍特別年少兵
1972
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II. ... view
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Original title: 朝霧
1971
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a p ... view
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Original title: 甦える大地
1971
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm ... view
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Yoshiko
Jan 1971 (first aired)
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori. ... view
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Nene (52 ep.)
Original title: どですかでん
1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father ... view
Character:
Ochô
Original title: 鉄火場慕情
1970
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Ise ... view
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Original title: 地の群れ
1970
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims. ... view
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Mitsuko
Original title: 侠花列伝 襲名賭博
1969
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death. ... view
Character:
Kei
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Original title: 博徒無情
1969
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young m ... view
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Original title: 日本の青春
1968
During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming. ... view
Character:
Miyo Mukaizaka
Original title: 花の恋人たち
1968
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students. ... view
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Original title: 恋人をさがそう
1967
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery afte ... view
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Original title: 私は泣かない
1966
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in ... view
Character:
Original title: あなたの命
1966
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance. ... view
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Original title: 涙になりたい
1966
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo. ... view
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Original title: こころの山脈
1966
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture. ... view
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Original title: 父と娘の歌
1965
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father. ... view
Character:
Original title: 星と俺とできめたんだ
1965
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat. ... view
Character:
Michiyo Amemiya
Character:
Hiroko Kuzuhara
Original title: 執炎
1964
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of w ... view
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Original title: うず潮
1964
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and ... view
Character:
Mino Hayashi
Original title: 香華
1964
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d ... view
Character:
Ezaki's wife
Original title: 花嫁は十五才
1964
Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual ... view
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Original title: 美しい暦
1963
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just ... view
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Character:
Osei (39 ep.)
Original title: どじょっこの歌
1961
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces. ... view
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Original title: 真昼の誘拐
1961
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a c ... view
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Original title: 舞妓の上京
1961
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and so ... view
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Original title: 青い芽の素顔
1961
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth. ... view
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Original title: 豚と軍艦
1961
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ... view
Character:
Hotel Cherry's Wife
Original title: すべてが狂ってる
1960
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment ... view
Character:
Masayo Sugita
Original title: 世界を賭ける恋
1959
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaoka) was at a contemporary art exhibition at the Uen ... view
Character:
Sachiko Muraoka
Original title: 俺は挑戦する
1959
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during tra ... view
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Original title: 荷車の歌
1959
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan. ... view
Character:
Original title: 夜の鼓
1958
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially gree ... view
Character:
Orin
Original title: チビデカ物語
1958
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Komatsu
Original title: いけばな
1957
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director ... view
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Narrator
Original title: あやに愛しき
1956
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when ... view
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Original title: 石合戦
1955
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a ... view
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Original title: こころ
1955
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship ... view
Character:
Kume, the maid
Original title: 狼
1955
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla ... view
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Original title: 縮図
1953
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i ... view
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Original title: 原爆の子
1952
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing ... view
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Original title: 痴人の愛
1949
Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom ... view
Character:
Hatsuko