Tomoko Naraoka

nihongo|Tomoko Naraoka|奈良岡朋子|Naraoka Tomoko (born December 1, 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter in the Western style, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyō, Tokyo), in what was then the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.

Naraoka made her debut as a cinema actress in the 1949 film "Chijin no Ai", based on the novel "Naomi". In 1981 she appeared in "Rengō Kantai." 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 "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 "".

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This article incorporates material from 奈良岡朋子 in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved September 22, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621235/ Tomoko Naraoka] at IMDB (in English)
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0313080.htm Tomoko Naraoka] at JMDB (in Japanese)