Actor

Noriko Sengoku

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Acting credits

116

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.4

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Movies: 113Series: 3

TMDB ID: 106161

IMDb ID: nm0784279

Known for: Acting

Born: May 29, 1922

Died: December 27, 2012

Age: 90

Place of birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1947 - 2007

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 7.28

Wikidata: Q436121

Also known as

千石规子 • Noriko Sengoku

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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."