Noriko Sengoku
Acting
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."
Born: May 29, 1922
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Old Woman at the Inn
as 内つる子
as Chiyoko Azuma
as Shinako
as Asa
as Kinoe Yoshino
as Hirose Tatsu
as Landlord
as Old woman
as Nishino Kiku
as Manager
as Koji's Grandmother
as Yuki's mother
as Tobacco Shop Owner
as Shino
as Female Delegate
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
as Okesa's owner
as Kiuchi
as Sayo Iida
as Shizuka
as Toru's mother
as Fortune Teller
as Chie (Proprietress)
as Wife Tomi
as Osen Miyoshi
as Okura
as Masseuse
as Hisako
as Osaku
as Kumi
as Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
as Kimie Nakajima
as Sei
as Wife of Gono Family
as Chie Sasaki
as Wife Ohana
as Personnel Chief's wife
as Maid in the Ono house
as Takako
as Ochika
as Sumie
as Dancer-style woman
as Tsukiyo
as Girl
as Apprentice Nurse
as Gin
as daughter Kuniko