Noriko Honma

Acting

Noriko Honma

Born 1911-11-29 Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan 64 films

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.

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Filmography

64 films
Madadayo poster

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by…

Madadayo

★ 7.3 1993

Dreams poster

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards,…

Dreams

★ 7.7 1990

G.I. Samurai poster

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to thei…

G.I. Samurai

★ 5.8 1979

Start Here poster

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family co…

Start Here

★ 7.0 1965

Red Beard poster

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed…

Red Beard

★ 8.2 1965

Oh, Bomb! poster

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candid…

Oh, Bomb!

★ 7.8 1964