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 Kurosawas 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 Sakuratai 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