Noriko Sengoku
Acting
🎂 1922-05-29
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."
Cast credits(113)
Wife of Gono Family
1954
内つる子
2003
Wife Tomi
1959
Kumi
1956
Asa
1994
2003
Female Delegate
1965
1962
Landlord
1986
1989
2007
Old Woman at the Inn
2003
1973
Apprentice Nurse
1949
Gin
1948
Koji's Grandmother
1981
Girl
1949
1961
1982
Takako
1951
1982
1956
Shinako
2001
Manager
1983
1962
Asa
1995
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
1965
1987
1956
Dancer-style woman
1950
1957
1961
Tobacco Shop Owner
1969
1964
1949
Sumie
1950
1958
Kiuchi
1964
Kinoe Yoshino
1992
Kimie Nakajima
1955
Chie (Proprietress)
1960
1957
Maid in the Ono house
1951
1962
1961
1952
Sei
1955
Shino
1969
Osaku
1956
Nishino Kiku
1985
Fortune Teller
1960
1955
1968
Hirose Tatsu
1988
Chie Sasaki
1954
Masseuse
1957
1949
1980
Tsukiyo
1949
1952
1950
1987
1949
1983
1952
Wife Ohana
1953
Sayo Iida
1962
1951
1960
1950
Okura
1957
1982
Chiyoko Azuma
2002
1980
1990
Asa
1996
1957
Old woman
1986
Shizuka
1961
1950
1955
1962
1956
1961
1956
1967
1964
Osen Miyoshi
1959
1952
1954
1962
1961
1956
1965
1956
1960
1953
1985
1963
1950
Okesa's owner
1964
daughter Kuniko
1947
1955
Ochika
1951
Toru's mother
1961
Personnel Chief's wife
1952
1990
Yuki's mother
1977
1954
Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
1956
Hisako
1957
1964