Noriko Sengoku
ActingAlso Known As
千石规子, 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."
Movies
(116 total)
Seven Samurai
as Wife of Gono Family
Kwaidan
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Stray Dog
as Girl
Drunken Angel
as Gin
Invasion of Astro-Monster
as Female Delegate
The Idiot
as Takako
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Fortune Teller
I Live in Fear
as Kimie Nakajima
Blind Beast
as Shino
Scandal
as Sumie
The Quiet Duel
as Apprentice Nurse
The Inheritance
as Sayo Iida
School in the Crosshairs
as Koji's Grandmother
The Lady of Musashino
as Maid in the Ono house
Girls of the Night
as Shizuka
The Sea and Poison
as Old Woman
TV Shows
(3 total)
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as 内つる子
The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
as Hirose Tatsu
Takeshi-kun, Hai!
as Nishino Kiku