Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Sengoku

1922-05-29 – 2012-12-27 (age 90) Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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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."

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Known For

Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai

1954

as Wife of Gono Family

Kwaidan
Kwaidan

1965

as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Invasion of Astro-Monster
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel

1948

as Gin

Stray Dog
Stray Dog

1949

as Girl

The Quiet Duel
The Quiet Duel

1949

as Apprentice Nurse

I Live in Fear
I Live in Fear

1955

as Kimie Nakajima

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960

as Fortune Teller

The Idiot
The Idiot

1951

as Takako

The Trap
The Trap

1996

as Asa

The Inheritance
The Inheritance

1962

as Sayo Iida

Women in Prison
Women in Prison

1956

as Tenko Takahashi, prisoner

Blind Beast
Blind Beast

1969

as Shino

Floating Clouds
Out
Out

2002

as Chiyoko Azuma

The Shape of Night
The Curio Master