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")
Attention Please
Echo Mountain
Osen Miyoshi
Drunken Angel
Gin
Blind Beast
Shino
Third Class Executives
Personnel Chief's wife
Battle of Roses
The Curio Master
White Beast
The Idiot
Takako
Here Is a Spring
五十円横町
Stray Dog
Girl
Floating Clouds
The Whisper of Spring
Yatsuhaka-mura
I Am a Medical Examiner
Girls of the Night
Shizuka
The Inheritance
Sayo Iida
College Champ
Stray Dog
The Munekata Sisters
The Quiet Duel
Apprentice Nurse
The Shape of Night
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
The Trap
Asa
Eternal Love
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Dorei no machi
Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
Itsuko to sono haha
Chie Sasaki
Out
Chiyoko Azuma
Women in Prison
Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
Foghorn
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Chie (Proprietress)
School in the Crosshairs
Koji's Grandmother