Noriko Sengoku
Acting
Born: 1922-05-29 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Reiko Mori (April 29, 1922 – December 27, 2012), known by her stage name Noriko Sengoku, was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as Drunken Angel, The Quiet Duel, Stray Dog, Scandal, The Idiot and Seven Samurai. During the war, she was a member of the traveling theater troupe Sakura-tai , which was wiped out in the Hiroshima atomic bombing . However, she escaped the atomic bombing because she was away from Hiroshima giving birth She was highly praised as a great supporting actress, and excelled in the role of a spiteful landlady. She believed that "a supporting role is like a 'screw in each corner'; if even one screw comes loose, the whole thing falls apart."
Known For
The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
Hirose Tatsu
Seven Samurai
Wife of Gono Family
Dr. Coto's Clinic
内つる子
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Delegate
Kwaidan
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Echo Mountain
Osen Miyoshi
Attention Please
Third Class Executives
Personnel Chief's wife
Drunken Angel
Gin
Battle of Roses
Blind Beast
Shino
Here Is a Spring
White Beast
五十円横町
The Curio Master
The Idiot
Takako
The Whisper of Spring
I Am a Medical Examiner
Eternal Love
Stray Dog
The Inheritance
Sayo Iida
College Champ
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
The Quiet Duel
Apprentice Nurse
The Shape of Night
Stray Dog
Girl
Dorei no machi
Itsuko to sono haha
Chie Sasaki
Girls of the Night
Shizuka
School in the Crosshairs
Koji's Grandmother
Yatsuhaka-mura
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
The Trap
Asa
The Munekata Sisters
Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
Foghorn
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Rebellion of Japan
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Chie (Proprietress)
Snow Country
Masseuse