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.

Ponyo

7.7

Dodes'ka-den

7.0

Pigs and Battleships

7.1

Railroad Man

7.0

Children of Hiroshima

7.1

Ballad of Orin

7.1

Everything Goes Wrong

6.4

Ikebana

6.4

The Heart

6.8

Night Drum

6.1

The Imperial Navy

6.6

The Scent of Incense

7.2

The Song of the Cart

6.6

My Sons

7.7

The Wolves

6.8

Railways

7.0

The Zen Diary

7.7

Disconcerto

6.5

Half a Confession

8.0

Free and Easy 17

5.8

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

6.0

Noh Mask Murders

5.6

The Flame of Devotion

6.8

Antarctica

8.4

Apart from Life

5.8

Demon

7.7

Hymn to a Tired Man

7.8

Free and Easy 10

6.7

Free and Easy 9

7.3

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

7.3

Miniature

8.0

Spring Bell

6.0

Free and Easy 15

7.5

Tatara Samurai

5.5

Free and Easy 16

7.5

Free and Easy 18

7.5

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

8.5

Life of a Flower

7.0

The Firefly

7.0

300 Million Yen Robbery

6.0

Izakaya Moheji 6

7.0

Izakaya Moheji

6.0

Take Me Away!

6.0

War and Youth

3.5

Witness Chair

6.0

Wings of Icarus' Flight

0.0

THE LAST GOZE

0.0

Beautiful Calendar

0.0

Nuki uchi fūraibō

0.0

Morning Fog

0.0

Gambling Den Desire

0.0

Yukiko

0.0

Your Life

0.0

Asu no hanayome

0.0

I Will Challenge

0.0

Ruthless Gambler

0.0

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

0.0

How Sorrowful

0.0

Cry for Sorrow

0.0

Izakaya Moheji 2

0.0

Izakaya Moheji 4

0.0

Izakaya Moheji 3

0.0

River of Fireflies

0.0

Skinny and Fatty

0.0

The Song of the Season

0.0

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love

0.0

The Song of Love

0.0

I'll Never Cry!

0.0

Eddy Currents of Life

0.0

The Stars and I Decided...

0.0

May Love Be Restored

0.0

Twenty-Four Eyes

0.0

A Fool's Love

0.0

Izakaya Moheji 5

0.0

The Sweet Interns

0.0

Gambler's Dilemma

0.0

The Takatsu River

0.0

Osaka no kaze

0.0

Mahiru no yūkai

0.0

マルゴォの杯

0.0

Kokoro no sanmyaku

0.0

Ishigassen

0.0

The Earth is Born Again

0.0

Aoime no Sugao

0.0

Hanayome wa jū go-sai

0.0

Ningen no sabaku

0.0

Haru no Sakamichi

0.0

ありがとう

0.0

Julie the Wild Rose

0.0

The Autumn in Tokyo

0.0