Tomoko Naraoka
Acting • Born 1929-12-01 – Died 2023-03-23
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.
Filmography
94 credits
Wings of Icarus' Flight
Movie • 1980
Mother
THE LAST GOZE
Movie • 2020
Ponyo
Movie • 2008
Yoshie (voice)
Beautiful Calendar
Movie • 1963
Nuki uchi fūraibō
Movie • 1962
Railroad Man
Movie • 1999
Mune Kato
Spring Bell
Movie • 1985
Katsuko Naganuma
The Zen Diary
Movie • 2022
Chie
Ikebana
Movie • 1957
Narrator
Morning Fog
Movie • 1971
Apart from Life
Movie • 1970
Mitsuko
Demon
Movie • 1985
Matsuko
Everything Goes Wrong
Movie • 1960
Masayo Sugita
Ballad of Orin
Movie • 1977
Teruyo
Hymn to a Tired Man
Movie • 1968
Miyo Mukaizaka
Gambling Den Desire
Movie • 1970
Yukiko
Movie • 1955
Your Life
Movie • 1966
Disconcerto
Movie • 2014
Kikuko Soneda
Asu no hanayome
Movie • 1962
Half a Confession
Movie • 2004
Dr. Takaki
Free and Easy 15
Movie • 2004
Railways
Movie • 2010
Kinuyo Tsutsui
I Will Challenge
Movie • 1959
The Firefly
Movie • 2001
Dodes'ka-den
Movie • 1970
Ochô
Ruthless Gambler
Movie • 1969
Free and Easy 17
Movie • 2006
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Movie • 1961
How Sorrowful
Movie • 1956
Night Drum
Movie • 1958
Orin
Cry for Sorrow
Movie • 1966
Izakaya Moheji 2
Movie • 2013
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Izakaya Moheji 4
Movie • 2015
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Izakaya Moheji 3
Movie • 2014
Yuki [owner of Hashi]
Tatara Samurai
Movie • 2017
Mizuho
River of Fireflies
Movie • 1987
Skinny and Fatty
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Komatsu
Children of Hiroshima
Movie • 1952
Free and Easy 9
Movie • 1997
The Wolves
Movie • 1955
The Song of the Season
Movie • 1961
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
Movie • 1962
Natsue Tokuhisa
The Song of Love
Movie • 1965
I'll Never Cry!
Movie • 1966
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Movie • 1972
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie • 2001
Hisue Suzuki
Free and Easy 10
Movie • 1998
Free and Easy 16
Movie • 2005
300 Million Yen Robbery
Movie • 2014
Yoshiko Takeda
Eddy Currents of Life
Movie • 1964
Mino Hayashi
The Heart
Movie • 1955
Kume, the maid
The Stars and I Decided...
Movie • 1965
Michiyo Amemiya
May Love Be Restored
Movie • 1980
Masa Kunugida
Twenty-Four Eyes
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
A Fool's Love
Movie • 1949
Hatsuko
Izakaya Moheji 5
Movie • 2016
Izakaya Moheji 6
Movie • 2017
Izakaya Moheji
Movie • 2011
Take Me Away!
Movie • 1978
Matsuko Ishiguro
War and Youth
Movie • 1991
Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
The Sweet Interns
Movie • 1968
The Scent of Incense
Movie • 1964
Ezaki's wife
Miniature
Movie • 1953
The Imperial Navy
Movie • 1981
Utako Hongo
Free and Easy 18
Movie • 2007
Noh Mask Murders
Movie • 1991
Aya Gondo
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Movie • 1988
Gambler's Dilemma
Movie • 1969
Kei
The Takatsu River
Movie • 2019
Osaka no kaze
Movie • 1958
Mahiru no yūkai
Movie • 1961
マルゴォの杯
Movie • 1988
Witness Chair
Movie • 1965
Hiroko Kuzuhara
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Movie • 1966
Pigs and Battleships
Movie • 1961
Hotel Cherry's Wife
The Song of the Cart
Movie • 1959
Ishigassen
Movie • 1955
My Sons
Movie • 1991
The Earth is Born Again
Movie • 1971
Yoshiko
Aoime no Sugao
Movie • 1961
The Bride is Fifteen
Movie • 1964
The Flame of Devotion
Movie • 1964
Ningen no sabaku
Movie • 1990
Let's find your sweetheart
Movie • 1967
A Love that Wagers the World
Movie • 1959
Sachiko Muraoka
Sea of Wandering
Movie • 1990
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
Movie • 1969
Haru no Sakamichi
TV • 1971
Nene
Life of a Flower
TV • 1963
Osei
ありがとう
TV • 1970
鶴田清子
Julie the Wild Rose
TV • 1979
Narration
The Autumn in Tokyo
TV • 1985
Antarctica
TV • 2011
Narrator (voice)