Noriko Sengoku
Known For
Acting
Born
1922-05-29 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Died
2012-12-27
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."
Most Known For
Seven Samurai
as Wife of Gono Family
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as 内つる子
Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
The Trap
as Asa
Out
as Chiyoko Azuma
Kwaidan
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Invasion of Astro-Monster
as Female Delegate
The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
as Hirose Tatsu
Stray Dog
as Girl
Drunken Angel
as Gin
The Inheritance
as Sayo Iida
Floating Clouds
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Fortune Teller
Snow Country
as Masseuse
Scandal
as Sumie
The Quiet Duel
as Apprentice Nurse
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Karaoke Terror
as Old Woman at the Inn
The Idiot
as Takako
