Biography
Naomi Shiraishi was a Japanese actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 24 January 1935. She graduated from Musashino Women's College and began her career in 1955 with the Radio Tokyo Broadcasting Troupe before making her film debut in 1956. She worked briefly with Toho and later became a freelancer.
Shiraishi appeared in films including The H-Man (1958) as Mineko, Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968) and In the Realm of the Senses (1976) as Geisha Yaeji. She also took roles in television series such as Yagyû Jûbei Abaretabi and The Hero Yoshihiko. In later years she worked as a culinary researcher and published books on cooking.
She was married to a former television producer and died on 3 August 2019 in Chofu, Tokyo.
