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.
Rashomon
(Medium)
Rhapsody in August
(Mourner)
Stray Dog
(Wooden Tub Shop woman)
G.I. Samurai
(Old Woman)
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
(Hostess)
Kiriko no unmei
Battle of the Japan Sea
The Homely Sister
(Tea shop old woman)
The Blue Pearl
(Riu's mother)
Anything For Success
Yojimbo
(Farmer's Ex-wife)
Red Beard
(Resident)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
(Itako)
Varan the Unbelievable
(Ken's Mom)
Madadayo
(Old Lady Holding a Cat)
Seven Samurai
(Woman Farmer)
Ikiru
(Housewife)
I Live in Fear
(Worker family member)
Mother
(Mino Hirai)
Summer Clouds
Wife
A Wife's Heart
Brother and Sister
The Whole Family Works
(Ishimura's wife)
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Composition Class
(Aunt)
The Ataka Family
(Otoku)
Oh, Bomb!
(Matsuko - Shiitake's wife)
Ditch
Nightshade Flower
The Big Boss
Street of Violence
(Sanpei's mother)
Varan
(Ken's Mom)
Marital Relations
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
((uncredited))
Snow-Flake
(Itakura's mother)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
(Mineko)
The Lone Journey
Husband and Wife
Last of the Wild Ones
Adolescence Part II
((uncredited))
People of Tokyo, Goodbye
(Natsu, Chiya's Mother (uncredited))
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
(Nanny)
Untamed Woman
(Otora, the foster mother)
All About Marriage
(Mariko's Mother)
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Their Father's Wife
Dreams
Girls in the Orchard
The Surf
(Old Woman of O-Haru)
Life of a Country Doctor
Someday I'll Know
Elephant from "Zoo Story"
(Tetsu (Zen's wife))
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Fox and Raccoon
(Sada)
Start Here
(Kitamura’s Mother)
Blue Buds
(Fusae (Kazuko’s mother))
The End of the Night