Haruko Sugimura
Acting Born Jan 6, 1909 Hiroshima, Japan 24 credits
Biography
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).
After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
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Full filmography
- Tokyo Story (1953) as Shige Kaneko
- Red Beard (1965) as Kin, the madam
- Kwaidan (1965) as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- Late Spring (1949) as Masa Taguchi
- Good Morning (1959) as Kikue Haraguchi
- An Early Autumn (1987)
- Early Spring (1956) as Tamako Tamura
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as Tomoko Sakuma
- The Three Treasures (1959) as Narrator
- The End of Summer (1961) as Katou Shige
- Early Summer (1951) as Tami Yabe
- Tokyo Twilight (1957) as Shigeko Takeuchi
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) as Princess Yen-chun
- Repast (1951) as Matsu Murata
- The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992) as Kafu's Mother
- Floating Weeds (1959) as Oyoshi
- With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) as Otoko's Mother
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) as Madame Noge
- Samurai Assassin (1965) as Tsuru
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) as Kayo Tani
- Second generation (1970)
- Buddha (1961) as Vaidehi
- Sunflower Girl (1953)
- The Petrified Forest (1973)