
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.
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The titles people know Tomoko from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Chie




as Mizuho


as Yuki [owner of Hashi]

as Kikuko Soneda

as Yuki [owner of Hashi]

as Yoshiko Takeda
as Yoshie (voice)




as Dr. Takaki

as Hisue Suzuki

as Mune Kato



as Aunt Sakiko / Lee Soon-ik

as Aya Gondo






2 episodes

as Katsuko Naganuma

as Matsuko
as Utako Hongo

as Narrator (voice)

as Narration · 13 episodes

as Matsuko Ishiguro
as Teruyo



as Yoshiko

as Nene · 52 episodes
as Ochô

as Kei



as Miyo Mukaizaka





as Sachiko Muraoka


as Orin

as Mrs. Komatsu
as Narrator

as Hatsuko
The people who keep turning up in Tomoko’s titles.









