Noriko Sengoku
Biography
Reiko Mori (April 29, 1922 β 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."
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Third Class Executives
1952
Seven Samurai
1954
Hateful Things
1957
Fox and Raccoon
1959
Drunken Angel
1948
Stray Dog
1949
Kwaidan
1965
Scandal
1950
Bonds of Love
1969
Invasion of Astro-Monster
1965
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Karaoke Terror
2003
Stray Dog
1973
Girls of the Night
1961
SararΔ«man yajikita dΕchΕ«
1961
Suddenly, Like a Storm
1977
Summer in Eclipse
1956
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
1983
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
1956
The Lady of Musashino
1951
Yatsuhaka-mura
1951
Hagure kigeki mandara
1962
Blind Beast
1969
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994
Rebellion
1957
Beast Alley
1965
Trap of Suicide Kilometer
1964
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
1953
Okoge
1992
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
Dotanba
1956
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
1964
College Champ
1962
The Quiet Duel
1949
Island of Horrors
1949
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
1949
Rebellion of Japan
1967
The Munekata Sisters
1950