Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Born: 1909-01-06 in Hiroshima, Japan
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
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
Repast
Matsu Murata
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
Flowing
Someka
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
Summer Clouds
Mother
Army
Setsu
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
The Three Treasures
Narrator
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
The Petrified Forest
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
I Lived, But...
Self
The Wiser Age
Aki
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
Spring Awakens
The Conspirator
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima