Noriko Sengoku
Actor
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."
Filmography
Kwaidan
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow") 1965
Stray Dog
as Girl 1949
Drunken Angel
as Gin 1948
Invasion of Astro-Monster
as Female Delegate 1965
The Idiot
as Takako 1951
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Fortune Teller 1960
I Live in Fear
as Kimie Nakajima 1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Blind Beast
as Shino 1969
Scandal
as Sumie 1950
The Quiet Duel
as Apprentice Nurse 1949
The Munekata Sisters
1950
The Inheritance
as Sayo Iida 1962
School in the Crosshairs
as Koji's Grandmother 1981
The Lady of Musashino
as Maid in the Ono house 1951
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007