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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9614 |
| Birthday | 1911-11-29 |
| Place of Birth | Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Also Known As |
1950
Rashomon
8.03/2577
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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Rashomon
1991
Rhapsody in August
7.147/158
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and mora...
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Rhapsody in August
1949
Stray Dog
7.6/372
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1979
G.I. Samurai
5.757/37
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...
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G.I. Samurai
1957
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
8/1
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer.
Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1962
Kiriko no unmei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kiriko no unmei
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
6.444/9
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
1967
The Homely Sister
8/2
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka fall...
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The Homely Sister
1951
The Blue Pearl
7.5/2
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
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The Blue Pearl
1962
Anything For Success
7/1
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a for...
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Anything For Success
1961
Yojimbo
8.078/1734
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...
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Yojimbo
1965
Red Beard
8.182/423
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard
1966
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
6.3/231
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
1962
Varan the Unbelievable
4.4/32
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...
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Varan the Unbelievable
1993
Madadayo
7.3/139
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who ho...
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Madadayo
1952
Ikiru
8.312/1380
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1954
Seven Samurai
8.452/4331
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai
1955
I Live in Fear
7.329/126
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared i...
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I Live in Fear
1952
Mother
7/20
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Mother
1958
Summer Clouds
7.656/16
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou...
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Summer Clouds
1953
Wife
7.182/11
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th...
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Wife
1953
Brother and Sister
6.316/19
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
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Brother and Sister
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.9/12
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal...
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A Wife's Heart
1939
The Whole Family Works
6.714/7
A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The fou...
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The Whole Family Works
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1938
Composition Class
6.778/9
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much p...
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Composition Class
1952
The Ataka Family
5.5/1
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to h...
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The Ataka Family
1964
Oh, Bomb!
7.8/8
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
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Oh, Bomb!
1954
Ditch
7.5/4
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
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Ditch
1951
Nightshade Flower
8/1
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
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Nightshade Flower
1959
The Big Boss
6.5/4
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping...
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The Big Boss
1950
Town of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Town of Violence
1958
Varan
5.8/37
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Vara...
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Varan
1955
Marital Relations
5.571/7
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. Th...
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Marital Relations
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.19/142
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1950
Snow-Flake
7.5/2
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Snow-Flake
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7.962/131
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1955
The Lone Journey
9/1
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at s...
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The Lone Journey
1953
Husband and Wife
6.889/9
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1954
Last of the Wild Ones
8/1
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Last of the Wild Ones
1953
Adolescence Part II
10/1
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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Adolescence Part II
1956
People of Tokyo, Goodbye
9/1
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People of Tokyo, Goodbye
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
9/1
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
Untamed Woman
7.455/11
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
1958
All About Marriage
10/1
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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All About Marriage
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1953
Their Father's Wife
7/1
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Their Father's Wife
1990
Dreams
7.739/586
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canva...
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Dreams
1953
Girls in the Orchard
8/1
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1954
The Surf
8/1
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
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The Surf
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
8.5/2
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...
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Life of a Country Doctor
1959
Someday I'll Know
9/1
A modern love story involving different affairs.
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Someday I'll Know
1957
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
0/0
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...
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Elephant from "Zoo Story"
1962
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
8/1
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1959
Fox and Raccoon
9/1
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and drea...
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Fox and Raccoon
1965
Start Here
7/1
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage lead...
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Start Here
1956
Blue Buds
0/0
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—the...
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Blue Buds
1953
The End of the Night
10/1
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will...
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The End of the Night
1962
石ころの唄
0/0
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石ころの唄
1956
All Sold Out
0/0
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All Sold Out
1969
Monstrous! Who Am I?!
0/0
Comedy starring the Crazy Cats' Kei Tani as a salaryman suffering from amnesia.
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Monstrous! Who Am I?!
1965
You Can If You Try
0/0
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You Can If You Try
1956
Everyone's Sweetheart
0/0
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Everyone's Sweetheart
1953
To the Ends of the Earth
0/0
In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his onc...
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