Noriko Sengoku
Acting
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
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movieKaraoke Terror
2003
Old Woman at the Inn
movieOut
2002
Chiyoko Azuma
movieHotoke
2001
Shinako
movieOkoge
1992
Kinoe Yoshino
tvThe Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
1988
Hirose Tatsu
movieLeave My Girl Alone
1986
Landlord
movieThe Sea and Poison
1986
Old Woman
tvTakeshi-kun, Hai!
1985
Nishino Kiku
movieSchool in the Crosshairs
1981
Koji's Grandmother
movieThe Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979
Toku (Housekeeper)
movieSuddenly, Like a Storm
1977
Yuki's mother
movieBonds of Love
1969
Tobacco Shop Owner
movieBlind Beast
1969
Shino
movieKwaidan
1965
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
movieSweet Sweat
1964
Okesa's owner
movieKen
1964
Kiuchi
movieThe Inheritance
1962
Sayo Iida
movieGirls of the Night
1961
Shizuka
movieThe Big Wave
1961
Toru's mother
movieWhen a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Fortune Teller
movieNew Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
Chie (Proprietress)
movieFox and Raccoon
1959
Wife Tomi
movieEcho Mountain
1959
Osen Miyoshi
movieSnow Country
1957
Masseuse
movieThe Face
1957
Hisako
movieWomen in Prison
1956
Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
movieI Live in Fear
1955
Kimie Nakajima
movieSeven Samurai
1954
Wife of Gono Family
movieItsuko to sono haha
1954
Chie Sasaki
movieAn Edoite Judge
1953
Wife Ohana
movieThird Class Executives
1952
Personnel Chief's wife
movieThe Lady of Musashino
1951
Maid in the Ono house
movieThe Idiot
1951
Takako
movieWeeping Doll
1951
Ochika
movieScandal
1950
Sumie
movieFour Seasons of Women
1950
Dancer-style woman
movieIsland of Horrors
1949
Tsukiyo
movieThe Quiet Duel
1949
Apprentice Nurse
movieActress
1947
daughter Kuniko