Noriko Honma
Acting • Born 1911-11-29 – Died 2009-04-12
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.
Filmography
59 credits
Rashomon
Movie • 1950
Medium
Rhapsody in August
Movie • 1991
Mourner
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Wooden Tub Shop woman
G.I. Samurai
Movie • 1979
Old Woman
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Movie • 1957
Hostess
Kiriko no unmei
Movie • 1962
Battle of the Japan Sea
Movie • 1969
The Homely Sister
Movie • 1967
Tea shop old woman
The Blue Pearl
Movie • 1951
Riu's mother
Anything For Success
Movie • 1962
Yojimbo
Movie • 1961
Farmer's Ex-wife
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Resident
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Movie • 1966
Itako
Varan the Unbelievable
Movie • 1962
Ken's Mom
Madadayo
Movie • 1993
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Housewife
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Woman Farmer
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Worker family member
Mother
Movie • 1952
Mino Hirai
Wife
Movie • 1953
Summer Clouds
Movie • 1958
Brother and Sister
Movie • 1953
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
The Whole Family Works
Movie • 1939
Ishimura's wife
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Movie • 1953
Composition Class
Movie • 1938
Aunt
The Ataka Family
Movie • 1952
Otoku
Oh, Bomb!
Movie • 1964
Matsuko - Shiitake's wife
Ditch
Movie • 1954
Nightshade Flower
Movie • 1951
The Big Boss
Movie • 1959
Street of Violence
Movie • 1950
Sanpei's mother
Varan
Movie • 1958
Ken's Mom
Marital Relations
Movie • 1955
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
(uncredited)
Snow-Flake
Movie • 1950
Itakura's mother
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Movie • 1960
Mineko
The Lone Journey
Movie • 1955
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Last of the Wild Ones
Movie • 1954
Adolescence Part II
Movie • 1953
(uncredited)
People of Tokyo, Goodbye
Movie • 1956
Natsu, Chiya's Mother (uncredited)
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Movie • 1957
Nanny
Untamed Woman
Movie • 1957
Otora, the foster mother
All About Marriage
Movie • 1958
Mariko's Mother
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Movie • 1957
Their Father's Wife
Movie • 1953
Dreams
Movie • 1990
Girls in the Orchard
Movie • 1953
The Surf
Movie • 1954
Old Woman of O-Haru
Life of a Country Doctor
Movie • 1960
Someday I'll Know
Movie • 1959
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
Movie • 1957
Tetsu (Zen's wife)
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Movie • 1962
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Sada
Start Here
Movie • 1965
Kitamura’s Mother
Blue Buds
Movie • 1956
Fusae (Kazuko’s mother)
The End of the Night
Movie • 1953
石ころの唄
Movie • 1962