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Noriko Honma

Noriko Honma (本間文子 Honma Noriko, born 29 November 1911 - 12 April 2009) is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She was born in Hokkaido. She worked in many of Akira Kurosawa's films, first appearing in Kurosawa's Rashomon as the Miko, also in Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Akahige, and Dreams.

Et billede af Noriko Honma

Actor

1938

[ ] Composition Class (Aunt)

1939

[ ] The Whole Family Works (Ishimura's wife)

1949

[ ] Stray Dog (Wooden Tub Shop woman)

1950

[ 5/10 ] Rashomon (Medium)
[ ] Street of Violence (Sanpei's mother)
[ ] Snow-Flake (Itakura's mother)

1951

[ ] The Blue Pearl (Riu's mother)
[ ] Nightshade Flower (????)

1952

[ 7/10 ] Ikiru (Housewife)
[ ] Mother (Mino Hirai)
[ ] The Ataka Family (Otoku)

1953

[ ] Wife (????)
[ ] Brother and Sister (????)
[ ] Where Chimneys Are Seen (????)
[ ] Husband and Wife (????)
[ ] Adolescence Part II ((uncredited))
[ ] Their Father's Wife (????)
[ ] Girls in the Orchard (????)
[ ] The End of the Night (????)

1954

[ 9/10 ] Seven Samurai (Woman Farmer)
[ ] Ditch (????)
[ ] Last of the Wild Ones (????)
[ ] The Surf (Old Woman of O-Haru)

1955

[ ] I Live in Fear (Worker family member)
[ ] Marital Relations (????)
[ ] The Lone Journey (????)

1956

[ ] A Wife's Heart (????)
[ W ] Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island ((uncredited))
[ ] People of Tokyo, Goodbye (Natsu, Chiya's Mother (uncredited))
[ ] Blue Buds (Fusae (Kazuko’s mother))

1957

[ ] Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen (Hostess)
[ ] A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (Nanny)
[ ] Untamed Woman (Otora, the foster mother)
[ ] A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 (????)
[ ] Elephant from "Zoo Story" (Tetsu (Zen's wife))

1958

[ ] Summer Clouds (????)
[ ] Varan (Ken's Mom)
[ ] All About Marriage (Mariko's Mother)

1959

[ ] The Big Boss (????)
[ ] Someday I'll Know (????)
[ ] Fox and Raccoon (Sada)

1960

[ ] When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mineko)
[ ] Life of a Country Doctor (????)

1961

[ 8/10 ] Yojimbo (Farmer's Ex-wife)

1962

[ ] Kiriko no unmei (????)
[ ] Anything For Success (????)
[ ] Varan the Unbelievable (Ken's Mom)
[ ] The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps (????)

1964

[ ] Oh, Bomb! (Matsuko - Shiitake's wife)

1965

[ 8/10 ] Red Beard (Resident)
[ ] Start Here (Kitamura’s Mother)

1966

[ ] Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Itako)

1967

[ ] The Homely Sister (Tea shop old woman)

1969

[ ] Battle of the Japan Sea (????)

1979

[ ] G.I. Samurai (Old Woman)

1990

[ W ] Dreams (????)

1991

[ ] Rhapsody in August (Mourner)

1993

[ ] Madadayo (Old Lady Holding a Cat)