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Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Sengoku

Actor · Born 1922-05-29 · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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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."

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Seven Samurai (1954) — Wife of Gono Family
  2. Kwaidan (1965) — Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
  3. Stray Dog (1949) — Girl
  4. Drunken Angel (1948) — Gin
  5. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) — Delegate
  6. The Idiot (1951) — Takako
  7. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) — Fortune Teller
  8. I Live in Fear (1955) — Kimie Nakajima
  9. Floating Clouds (1955)
  10. Blind Beast (1969) — Shino
  11. Scandal (1950) — Sumie
  12. The Quiet Duel (1949) — Apprentice Nurse
  13. The Munekata Sisters (1950)
  14. The Inheritance (1962) — Sayo Iida
  15. School in the Crosshairs (1981) — Koji's Grandmother
  16. Girls of the Night (1961) — Shizuka
  17. The Lady of Musashino (1951) — Maid in the Ono house
  18. Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
  19. The Sea and Poison (1986) — Old Woman
  20. Ken (1964) — Kiuchi
  21. The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994) — Asa
  22. Karaoke Terror (2003) — Old Woman at the Inn
  23. The Trap (1996) — Asa
  24. Snow Country (1957) — Masseuse
  25. White Beast (1950)
  26. Battle of Roses (1950)
  27. The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) — Asa
  28. Okoge (1992) — Kinoe Yoshino
  29. Out (2002) — Chiyoko Azuma
  30. Stray Dog (1973)
  31. Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003) — 内つる子
  32. The Shape of Night (1964)
  33. Policeman's Diary (1955) — Sei
  34. Here Is a Spring (1955)
  35. Trap of Suicide Kilometer (1964)
  36. Sweet Sweat (1964) — Okesa's owner
  37. Women in Prison (1956) — Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
  38. Hagure kigeki mandara (1962)
  39. There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl (1987)
  40. Rebellion (1957)