Acting
GenderFemale
BirthdayNovember 30, 1929 (95 years old)
Place of BirthKomagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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.
Wings of Icarus' Flight
THE LAST GOZE
Ponyo
Beautiful Calendar
Nuki uchi fūraibō
Railroad Man
Spring Bell
The Zen Diary
Ikebana
Morning Fog
Apart from Life
Demon
Everything Goes Wrong
Ballad of Orin
Hymn to a Tired Man
Gambling Den Desire
Yukiko
Your Life
Disconcerto
Asu no hanayome
Half a Confession
Free and Easy 15
Railways
I Will Challenge
The Firefly
Dodes'ka-den
Ruthless Gambler
Free and Easy 17
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
How Sorrowful
Night Drum
Cry for Sorrow
Izakaya Moheji 2
Izakaya Moheji 4
Izakaya Moheji 3
Tatara Samurai
River of Fireflies
Skinny and Fatty
Children of Hiroshima
Free and Easy 9
The Wolves
The Song of the Season
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
The Song of Love
I'll Never Cry!
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Free and Easy 10
Free and Easy 16
300 Million Yen Robbery
Eddy Currents of Life
The Heart
The Stars and I Decided...
May Love Be Restored
Twenty-Four Eyes
A Fool's Love
Izakaya Moheji 5
Izakaya Moheji 6
Izakaya Moheji
Take Me Away!
War and Youth
The Sweet Interns
The Scent of Incense
Miniature
The Imperial Navy
Free and Easy 18
Noh Mask Murders
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Gambler's Dilemma
The Takatsu River
Osaka no kaze
Mahiru no yuugai
マルゴォの杯
Witness Chair
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Pigs and Battleships
The Song of the Cart
Ishigassen
My Sons
The Earth is Born Again
Aoime no Sugao
Hanayome wa jū go-sai
The Flame of Devotion
Ningen no sabaku
Haru no Sakamichi
Life of a Flower
ありがとう
Julie the Wild Rose
The Autumn in Tokyo
Antarctica