Noriko Sengoku

Known for ActingBorn 1922-05-29Died 2012-12-27Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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."Read more

Movies & web series

Hotoke

Fifty-Fifty

The Big Wave

Jiyūgaoka fujin

Geisha in the Old City

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

Twice on a Certain Night

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

The Whisper of Spring

Foghorn

Island of Horrors

Roppongi Banana Boys

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

Suddenly, Like a Storm

Dr. Coto's Clinic

Bonds of Love

The Youth and His Amulet

Echo Mountain

Fox and Raccoon

Evening Calm

A Woman's Life

Seven Samurai

Sweet Sweat

Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

Here Is a Spring

Eternal Love

Rebellion of Japan

Mr. Giant's Victory Flag

Aces Wild

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

Stray Dog

Masura o hashutsu fukai

Itsuko to sono haha

Shi no machi wo nogarete

Yatsuhaka-mura

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Kwaidan

Leave My Girl Alone

Ken

Floating Clouds

The Stairway to the Distant Past

College Champ

Stray Dog

Drunken Angel

Time Limit

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad