[3] When she was a student circa 1941, she saw Mansaku Itami's Akanishi Kakita (1936) and wrote a fan letter to him.

[4] After Itami's death, Nogami became an apprentice script supervisor at Daiei's Kyoto Studio in 1949.

[4] In 1951, she moved to Toho and participated in all Kurosawa films after Ikiru as recording, editing and production assistant.

[6] In 1984, she won the Yomiuri Human Documentary Award for Excellence for Requiem for Father, which depicts her childhood.

In 2008, director Yoji Yamada turned this into a movie called Kabei: Our Mother.