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Noriko Hidaka

1962 - Today

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Noriko Itō (伊東 範子, Itō Noriko, born May 31, 1962), better known by the stage name of Noriko Hidaka (日髙 のり子, Hidaka Noriko), is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator. She played Minami Asakura in Touch, Akane Tendo in Ranma ½, Satsuki Kusakabe in My Neighbor Totoro, Near in Death Note, Jean Roque Raltique in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Kikyō in Inuyasha, Patricia O'Sullivan in Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare's, Erica Fontaine in Sakura Wars and Masumi Sera in Detective Conan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noriko Hidaka has received more than 345,260 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Noriko Hidaka is the 6,078th most popular actor (down from 5,804th in 2019), the 1,473rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,354th in 2019) and the 121st most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Noriko Hidaka ranks 6,078 out of 13,578. Before her are N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Caroll Spinney, Jadwiga Smosarska, Edison Chen, Bruce Bennett, and Chae Shi-ra. After her are Patrick Fabian, Owain Yeoman, Priscilla Dean, Aubrey Plaza, Marie Osborne Yeats, and Antonio Ozores.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Noriko Hidaka ranks 361. Before her are Richard Taylor, Hatice Aslan, Aleksandr Dedyushko, Mircea Rednic, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Chris Christie. After her are Colin Salmon, Ivan Jovanović, Marc Cherry, Sabine Busch, François Delecour, and Vlado Bučkovski.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Noriko Hidaka ranks 1,473 out of 6,245. Before her are Yoko Shimomura (1967), Toshihiko Seki (1962), Katsuya Okada (1953), Kono Yasui (1880), Sumi Shimamoto (1954), and Eiji Kawashima (1983). After her are Yuji Ide (1975), Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Jong Tae-se (1984), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Shinji Tanaka (1960), and Shigeru Ishiba (1957).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Noriko Hidaka ranks 121. Before her are Nanako Matsushima (1973), Hiroaki Hirata (1963), Wataru Takagi (1966), Tomokazu Seki (1972), Toshihiko Seki (1962), and Sumi Shimamoto (1954). After her are Hikaru Midorikawa (1968), Mitsuko Horie (1957), Nana Mizuki (1980), Chiaki Kuriyama (1984), Yūki Kaji (1985), and Richard T. Jones (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

My Neighbor Totoro
Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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DEATH NOTE
Near (voice)
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
8.632 / 10
犬夜叉
Kikyo (voice)
Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
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