Tomoko Naraoka
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1929-12-01
Deathday 2023-03-23 (93 years old)
Place of Birth Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Tomoko Naraoka
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.
Known For
Actor
as Chie
as Mizuho
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
as 曾根田菊子
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
as Yoshiko Takeda
as Yuki [owner of Hashi]
as Kinuyo Tsutsui
as Yoshie (voice)
as Dr. Takaki
as Hisue Suzuki
as Mune Kato
as Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik
as Aya Gondo
as Matsuko
as Utako Hongo
as Narrator (voice)
as Masa Kunugida
as Mother
as Narration
as Matsuko Ishiguro
as Teruyo
as Nene
as Ochô
as Mitsuko
as 鶴田清子
as Kei
as Zensaku's wife
as Michiyo Amemiya
as Mino Hayashi
as Ezaki's wife
as Osei
as Natsue Tokuhisa
as Hotel Cherry's Wife
as Masayo Sugita
as Orin
as Mrs. Komatsu
as Narrator
as Kume, the maid
as Hatsuko
Sound
as Vocals