Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 06, 1909
Died
Apr 04, 1997
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
Credits
121 titles
Haruko Sugimura
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Written Face
Self
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru
An Early Autumn
I Lived, But...
Self
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
雪の華
The Petrified Forest
Fossil
Mother-in-Law
Onna no hanamichi
Second generation
Only Child
Slave Factory
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
Mother
Yoshie
Jidanya
The Navy
Youth After School
Ayako
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
Musume to watashi
Till Tomorrow Is
The Wiser Age
Aki
Their Legacy
The Rokumeikan
The Conspirator
Buddha
Vaidehi
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
Deep River Melody
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Banana
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The Three Treasures
Narrator
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
The Rokumeikan