Noriko Sengoku
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."
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Full filmography
- Seven Samurai (1954) as Wife of Gono Family
- Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003) as 内つる子
- The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms! (1988) as Hirose Tatsu
- Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) as Delegate
- Kwaidan (1965) as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
- Stray Dog (1949) as Girl
- Takeshi-kun, Hai! (1985) as Nishino Kiku
- Drunken Angel (1948) as Gin
- The Idiot (1951) as Takako
- Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
- Blind Beast (1969) as Shino
- Floating Clouds (1955)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) as Fortune Teller
- The Quiet Duel (1949) as Apprentice Nurse
- Scandal (1950) as Sumie
- I Live in Fear (1955) as Kimie Nakajima
- The Trap (1996) as Asa
- Snow Country (1957) as Masseuse
- Ken (1964) as Kiuchi
- The Sea and Poison (1986) as Old Woman
- The Inheritance (1962) as Sayo Iida
- School in the Crosshairs (1981) as Koji's Grandmother
- The Munekata Sisters (1950)
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994) as Asa