Noriko Sengoku
Actor
- Born
- May 29, 1922 · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- December 27, 2012 (age 90)
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
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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
Seven Samurai
April 26, 1954
Kwaidan
January 6, 1965
Stray Dog
October 17, 1949
Drunken Angel
April 27, 1948
Invasion of Astro-Monster
December 19, 1965
The Idiot
May 23, 1951
I Live in Fear
November 22, 1955
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
January 15, 1960
Floating Clouds
January 15, 1955
Blind Beast
January 25, 1969
Scandal
April 26, 1950
The Quiet Duel
March 19, 1949
Acting134
- 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
- 2003Karaoke Terror as Old Woman at the Inn
- 2003Time Limit
- 2002Out as Chiyoko Azuma
- 2001Hotoke as Shinako
- 1996The Trap as Asa
- 1995The Stairway to the Distant Past as Asa
- 1994The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Asa
- 1992Okoge as Kinoe Yoshino
- 1990Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
- 1990