Noriko Sengoku

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-05-29 (90 years old)

Deathday

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 ...

Acting

1949

Stray Dog

as Girl

1965

Kwaidan

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

1955

I Live in Fear

as Kimie Nakajima

1951

The Idiot

as Takako

1948

1950

Scandal

as Sumie

1949

1953

An Edoite Judge

as Wife Ohana

1950

Four Seasons of Women

as Dancer-style woman

1952

Third Class Executives

as Personnel Chief's wife

1996

The Trap

as Asa

1969

Blind Beast

as Shino

2003

Karaoke Terror

as Old Woman at the Inn

1986

The Sea and Poison

as Old woman

1965

Invasion of Astro-Monster

as Female Delegate

1992

Okoge

as Kinoe Yoshino

1949

The Quiet Duel

as Apprentice Nurse

1954

Seven Samurai

as Wife of Gono Family

1951

The Lady of Musashino

as Maid in the Ono house

1962

The Inheritance

as Sayo Iida

1964

Sweet Sweat

as Okesa's owner

2002

Out

as Chiyoko Azuma

1969

Bonds of Love

as Tobacco Shop Owner

1957

Snow Country

as Masseuse

1957

The Face

as Hisako

1977

Suddenly, Like a Storm

as Yuki's mother

1960

1981

School in the Crosshairs

as Koji's Grandmother

1961

The Big Wave

as Toru's mother

1956

1951

Weeping Doll

as Ochika

1986

1959

Echo Mountain

as Osen Miyoshi

1956

Women in Prison

as Tenko Takahashi, prisoner

1961

1947

Actress

as daughter Kuniko

1954

Itsuko to sono haha

as Chie Sasaki

2001

Hotoke

as Shinako

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