Noriko Sengoku
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."
Acting
Movie
Seven Samurai
as Wife of Gono Family
1954
Movie
Kwaidan
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
1965
Movie
Stray Dog
as Girl
1949
Movie
Drunken Angel
as Gin
1948
Movie
Invasion of Astro-Monster
as Delegate
1965
Movie
The Idiot
as Takako
1951
Movie
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Fortune Teller
1960
Movie
I Live in Fear
as Kimie Nakajima
1955
Movie
Floating Clouds
1955
Movie
Blind Beast
as Shino
1969
Movie
Scandal
as Sumie
1950
Movie
The Quiet Duel
as Apprentice Nurse
1949
Movie
The Munekata Sisters
1950
Movie
The Inheritance
as Sayo Iida
1962
Movie
School in the Crosshairs
as Koji's Grandmother
1981
Movie
Girls of the Night
as Shizuka
1961
Movie
The Lady of Musashino
as Maid in the Ono house
1951
Movie
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Movie
The Sea and Poison
as Old Woman
1986
Movie
Ken
as Kiuchi
1964
Movie
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
as Asa
1994
Movie
Karaoke Terror
as Old Woman at the Inn
2003
Movie
The Trap
as Asa
1996
Movie
Snow Country
as Masseuse
1957