Noriko Sengoku
Acting • Born 1922-05-29 – Died 2012-12-27
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
119 credits
The Whisper of Spring
Movie • 1952
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Girl
Kwaidan
Movie • 1965
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Kimie Nakajima
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Takako
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Gin
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Sumie
Island of Horrors
Movie • 1949
Tsukiyo
Hagure kigeki mandara
Movie • 1962
Fifty-Fifty
Movie • 1963
恐妻時代
Movie • 1952
An Edoite Judge
Movie • 1953
Wife Ohana
Four Seasons of Women
Movie • 1950
Dancer-style woman
Dotanba
Movie • 1956
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
Movie • 1956
Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled
Movie • 1990
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Movie • 1994
Asa
Third Class Executives
Movie • 1952
Personnel Chief's wife
Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
Movie • 1950
Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Movie • 1985
Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
Movie • 1990
A Woman's Identity
Movie • 1962
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Movie • 1953
Whisper of the Spirits
Movie • 1987
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
Movie • 1961
Love's Family Tree
Movie • 1961
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Movie • 1949
The Trap
Movie • 1996
Asa
Blind Beast
Movie • 1969
Shino
Karaoke Terror
Movie • 2003
Old Woman at the Inn
Evening Calm
Movie • 1957
The Shape of Night
Movie • 1964
Eternal Love
Movie • 1968
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Movie • 2007
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Movie • 1995
Asa
The Sea and Poison
Movie • 1986
Old Woman
Floating Clouds
Movie • 1955
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Movie • 1965
Female Delegate
Okoge
Movie • 1992
Kinoe Yoshino
The Quiet Duel
Movie • 1949
Apprentice Nurse
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Wife of Gono Family
The Lady of Musashino
Movie • 1951
Maid in the Ono house
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Movie • 1964
The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Sayo Iida
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Movie • 1956
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Sei
The Munekata Sisters
Movie • 1950
Rebellion of Japan
Movie • 1967
Nurse's Husband
Movie • 1980
There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Movie • 1987
Battle of Roses
Movie • 1950
Geisha in the Old City
Movie • 1957
Okura
Seducer of the Night: Terror in the summer resort, bloodsucking fangs for blonde beauties
Movie • 1982
Clan Revival
Movie • 1954
Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)
Movie
The Weed of Crime
Movie • 1962
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Movie • 1954
Sweet Sweat
Movie • 1964
Okesa's owner
Roppongi Banana Boys
Movie • 1989
Out
Movie • 2002
Chiyoko Azuma
Foghorn
Movie • 1952
Bonds of Love
Movie • 1969
Tobacco Shop Owner
Stray Dog
Movie • 1973
Snow Country
Movie • 1957
Masseuse
The Face
Movie • 1957
Hisako
Suddenly, Like a Storm
Movie • 1977
Yuki's mother
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Movie • 1952
White Beast
Movie • 1950
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Movie • 1960
Fortune Teller
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
Movie • 1983
The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
Movie • 1982
The Youth and His Amulet
Movie • 1961
School in the Crosshairs
Movie • 1981
Koji's Grandmother
The Big Wave
Movie • 1961
Toru's mother
Rebellion
Movie • 1957
Time Limit
Movie • 2003
Shin ono ga tsumi
Movie • 1956
Osaku
Weeping Doll
Movie • 1951
Ochika
Leave My Girl Alone
Movie • 1986
Landlord
Echo Mountain
Movie • 1959
Osen Miyoshi
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
Girls of the Night
Movie • 1961
Shizuka
This Madding Crowd
Movie • 1962
Actress
Movie • 1947
daughter Kuniko
The White Orchid
Movie • 1951
Twice on a Certain Night
Movie • 1956
Itsuko to sono haha
Movie • 1954
Chie Sasaki
Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
Movie • 1982
Legend of the Cat Monster
Movie • 1983
Manager
Police Precinct Part 2
Movie • 1956
五十円横町
Movie • 1955
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
Movie • 1957
Beast Alley
Movie • 1965
A Woman's Life
Movie • 1949
Hotoke
Movie • 2001
Shinako
Konna onna ni dare ga shita
Movie • 1949
Aces Wild
Movie • 1961
Masura o hashutsu fukai
Movie • 1956
The Undefeated Woman
Movie • 1958
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Movie • 1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Movie • 1960
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Movie • 1961
The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
Movie • 1980
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Movie • 1960
Chie (Proprietress)
Here Is a Spring
Movie • 1955
Summer in Eclipse
Movie • 1956
Kumi
Trap of Suicide Kilometer
Movie • 1964
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Wife Tomi
Ken
Movie • 1964
Kiuchi
College Champ
Movie • 1962
Hateful Things
Movie • 1957
Yatsuhaka-mura
Movie • 1951
獄門島 総集篇
Movie • 1950
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Movie • 1964
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Movie • 1979
Toku (Housekeeper)
Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1964
3rd Sin
The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
TV • 1988
Hirose Tatsu
Takeshi-kun, Hai!
TV • 1985
Nishino Kiku
Dr. Coto's Clinic
TV • 2003
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