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.

Cast

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)

Ikiru

(Housewife)

Seven Samurai

(Woman Farmer)

I Live in Fear

(Worker family member)

Mother

(Mino Hirai)

Summer Clouds

Wife

Brother and Sister

A Wife's Heart

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