Tomoko Naraoka

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Naraoka.

Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡朋子, Naraoka Tomoko^?) (born December 1, 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter in the Western style, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyō, Tokyo), in what was then the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.

Naraoka made her debut as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel Naomi. In 1981 she appeared in Rengō Kantai. She also appeared in Torajirō Sarada Kinenbi (a 1988 movie in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series) as well as eight films in the Tsuribaka Nisshi series.

Naraoka has appeared in several NHK Taiga dramas. Her first was the 1969 Ten to Chi to, in the role of the wife of Uesugi Sadazane. She portrayed Kita no Mandokoro (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in Haru no Sakamichi (1971). Her next Taiga drama appearance was in 1976 in Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. She narrated the 1986 Inochi and 1989 Kasuga no Tsubone. She is the narrator of the 2008 Atsuhime.

Other noteworthy narration roles include the 1983 serialized morning television drama Oshin. She also narrated Onna wa Dokyō (1992) and Haru Yo Koi (1994–1995). A nonfiction voice role was in the series Kiwameru: Nihon no Bi to Kokoro.