Tomoko Naniwa
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Tomoko Naniwa.
Born: February 13, 1909
Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Flunky, Work Hard!
A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
Burden of Life
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Fighting Friends
Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.
Treasure Mountain
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film.
Young Lady
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.
Filmography
as Okubo's Wife
as Itinerant Entertainer
as Okabe's wife
as Wife
as Omitsu
as Konami, geisha