
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."

Seven Samurai
MOVIE • 1954

Dr. Coto's Clinic
TV • 2003

Kwaidan
MOVIE • 1965

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
MOVIE • 2007

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
MOVIE • 1985

Invasion of Astro-Monster
MOVIE • 1965

The Trap
MOVIE • 1996

Blind Beast
MOVIE • 1969

I Live in Fear
MOVIE • 1955

Floating Clouds
MOVIE • 1955

Stray Dog
MOVIE • 1949

Out
MOVIE • 2002

The Munekata Sisters
MOVIE • 1950

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
MOVIE • 1960

The Idiot
MOVIE • 1951

Drunken Angel
MOVIE • 1948

The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
TV • 1988

Takeshi-kun, Hai!
TV • 1985