Noriko Sengoku
Birthday: 1922-05-29
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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."
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The Whisper of Spring
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went ...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Island of Horrors
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the oth...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...
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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
Bored Hatamoto movie #11...
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers...
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine...
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Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame....
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The Trap
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I wan...
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Blind Beast
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland ...
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Karaoke Terror
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him ...
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Evening Calm
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on he...
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The Shape of Night
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate aff...
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Eternal Love
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are a...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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The Sea and Poison
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during...
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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,...
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Okoge
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lo...
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The Quiet Duel
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation....
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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The Lady of Musashino
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had al...
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Rebellion of Japan
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather...
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Battle of Roses
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheate...
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Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
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Seducer of the Night: Terror in the summer resort, bloodsucking fangs for blonde beauties
A vampire stalks a female editor as she pursues a case in Kofu that took place at the villa of a wri...
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Clan Revival
After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. B...
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Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)
A housewife whose memoir of divorce is selected becomes an editorial staff member, something she has...
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The Devil comes and plays the Flute
The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur...
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Sweet Sweat
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 3...
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Roppongi Banana Boys
A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who ar...
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Out
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she stra...
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Foghorn
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant....
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Bonds of Love
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company...
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Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later...
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Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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The Face
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth ...
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Suddenly, Like a Storm
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a sto...
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....
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White Beast
Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wante...
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin'...
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The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers....
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The Big Wave
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically thre...
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Rebellion
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumenta...
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Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank ro...
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Shin ono ga tsumi
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901)....
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Weeping Doll
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan....
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Leave My Girl Alone
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a...
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Women in Prison
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is ...
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Girls of the Night
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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Actress
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some ...
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Itsuko to sono haha
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her....
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Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
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Legend of the Cat Monster
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter i...
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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Beast Alley
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns...
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Hotoke
Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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Masura o hashutsu fukai
Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series....
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J...
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The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Mat...
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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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Summer in Eclipse
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi...
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Trap of Suicide Kilometer
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materi...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedic...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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Hateful Things
The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying ...
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Yatsuhaka-mura
Original work by Yokomizo Seishi. The third part of Kindaichi Kosuke's story, which was collected by...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery....
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