Tomoko Naraoka
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.
Acting
Movie
Ponyo
as Yoshie (voice)
2008
Movie
Dodes'ka-den
as Ochô
1970
Movie
Pigs and Battleships
as Hotel Cherry's Wife
1961
Movie
Railroad Man
as Mune Kato
1999
Movie
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Movie
Ballad of Orin
as Teruyo
1977
Movie
Everything Goes Wrong
as Masayo Sugita
1960
Movie
The Imperial Navy
as Utako Hongo
1981
Movie
Ikebana
as Narrator
1957
Movie
Night Drum
as Orin
1958
Movie
The Heart
as Kume, the maid
1955
Movie
The Zen Diary
as Chie
2022
Movie
My Sons
1991
Movie
The Scent of Incense
as Ezaki's wife
1964
Movie
The Song of the Cart
1959
Movie
Half a Confession
as Dr. Takaki
2004
Movie
The Wolves
1955
Movie
Demon
as Matsuko
1985
Movie
Disconcerto
as Kikuko Soneda
2014
Movie
Railways
as Kinuyo Tsutsui
2010
TV
Antarctica
as Narrator (voice)
2011
Movie
Free and Easy 17
2006
Movie
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
Movie
Noh Mask Murders
as Aya Gondo
1991
