Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1922-05-29
Day of Death
2012-12-27
Place of Birth
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Noriko Sengoku
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 (118)
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Karaoke Terror
2003
Time Limit
2003
Out
2002
Hotoke
2001
The Trap
1996
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994
Okoge
1992
Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
1990
Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled
1990
Roppongi Banana Boys
1989
There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
1987
Whisper of the Spirits
1987
