Noriko Honma

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.

  • Title: Noriko Honma
  • Popularity: 4.642
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-11-29
  • Place of Birth: Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
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Noriko Honma Movies

  • 1950
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    Rashomon

    Rashomon

    8.078 1950 HD

    Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

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  • 1991
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    Rhapsody in August

    Rhapsody in August

    7.1 1991 HD

    The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...

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  • 1949
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    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    7.5 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    G.I. Samurai

    G.I. Samurai

    6 1979 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

    Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

    1 1957 HD

    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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  • 1962
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    Kiriko no unmei

    Kiriko no unmei

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1969
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    Battle of the Japan Sea

    Battle of the Japan Sea

    6 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Homely Sister

    The Homely Sister

    6 1967 HD

    In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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  • 1951
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    The Blue Pearl

    The Blue Pearl

    1 1951 HD

    The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

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  • 1962
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    Gekkyū dorobō

    Gekkyū dorobō

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Yojimbo

    Yojimbo

    8.099 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Red Beard

    Red Beard

    8.1 1965 HD

    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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  • 1966
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    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

    6.339 1966 HD

    Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

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  • 1962
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    Varan the Unbelievable

    Varan the Unbelievable

    4.2 1962 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Madadayo

    Madadayo

    7.338 1993 HD

    Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

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  • 1952
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    Ikiru

    Ikiru

    8.308 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai

    8.463 1954 HD

    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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  • 1955
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    I Live in Fear

    I Live in Fear

    7.3 1955 HD

    Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

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  • 1952
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    Mother

    Mother

    6.882 1952 HD

    A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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  • 1953
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    Wife

    Wife

    7 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1958
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    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    7.5 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Brother and Sister

    Brother and Sister

    6.6 1953 HD

    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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  • 1956
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    A Wife's Heart

    A Wife's Heart

    6.8 1956 HD

    Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

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  • 1939
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    The Whole Family Works

    The Whole Family Works

    6.2 1939 HD

    Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...

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  • 1953
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    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    6.4 1953 HD

    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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  • 1938
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    Composition Class

    Composition Class

    6.9 1938 HD

    Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

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  • 1952
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    The Ataka Family

    The Ataka Family

    5.5 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Oh, Bomb!

    Oh, Bomb!

    7.7 1964 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    The Ditch

    The Ditch

    7 1954 HD

    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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  • 1951
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    Nightshade Flower

    Nightshade Flower

    1 1951 HD

    Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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  • 1959
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    The Big Boss

    The Big Boss

    6.3 1959 HD

    Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

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  • 1950
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    Street of Violence

    Street of Violence

    6.5 1950 HD

    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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  • 1958
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    Varan

    Varan

    5.8 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Marital Relations

    Marital Relations

    5.2 1955 HD

    The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

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  • 1956
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    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    7.257 1956 HD

    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....

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  • 1950
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    Snow-Flake

    Snow-Flake

    8 1950 HD

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  • 1960
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    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    7.963 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    The Lone Journey

    The Lone Journey

    1 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

    6.6 1953 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    Last of the Wild Ones

    Last of the Wild Ones

    1 1954 HD

    A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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  • 1953
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    Adolescence Part II

    Adolescence Part II

    1 1953 HD

    A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

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  • 1956
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    Tokyo no hito sayonara

    Tokyo no hito sayonara

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1957
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    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

    1 1957 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    Untamed Woman

    Untamed Woman

    7.3 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1958
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    All About Marriage

    All About Marriage

    1 1958 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

    1 1957 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    Their Father's Wife

    Their Father's Wife

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1990
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    Dreams

    Dreams

    7.7 1990 HD

    A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

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  • 1953
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    Girls in the Orchard

    Girls in the Orchard

    1 1953 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    The Surf

    The Surf

    1 1954 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    Life of a Country Doctor

    Life of a Country Doctor

    1 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Someday I'll Know

    Someday I'll Know

    1 1959 HD

    A modern love story involving different affairs.

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