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Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Actor · Born 1909-01-06 · Hiroshima, Japan

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Tokyo Story (1953) — Shige Kaneko
  2. Late Spring (1949) — Masa Taguchi
  3. Kwaidan (1965) — Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
  4. Red Beard (1965) — Kin, the madam
  5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) — Tomoko Sakuma
  6. Good Morning (1959) — Kikue Haraguchi
  7. Early Summer (1951) — Tami Yabe
  8. Floating Weeds (1959) — Oyoshi
  9. Tokyo Twilight (1957) — Shigeko Takeuchi
  10. The End of Summer (1961) — Katou Shige
  11. Early Spring (1956) — Tamako Tamura
  12. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) — Madame Noge
  13. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) — Princess Yen-chun
  14. Samurai Assassin (1965) — Tsuru
  15. Repast (1951) — Matsu Murata
  16. Late Chrysanthemums (1954) — Kin
  17. Flowing (1956) — Someka
  18. With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) — Otoko's Mother
  19. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) — Masao's mother
  20. Summer Clouds (1958) — Mother
  21. Army (1944) — Setsu
  22. Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) — Oshin
  23. A Last Note (1995) — Yoko Morimoto
  24. Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949) — Oshin
  25. The Three Treasures (1959) — Narrator
  26. The Petrified Forest (1973)
  27. The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
  28. The Fossil (1975) — Itsuki's stepmother
  29. The Scent of Incense (1964) — Taromaru
  30. The Broken Commandment (1962) — School master's wife
  31. Morning for the Osone Family (1946) — Fusako Osone
  32. Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) — Kayo Tani
  33. Till We Meet Again (1950) — Suga Ono
  34. I Lived, But... (1983) — Self
  35. The Wiser Age (1962) — Aki
  36. An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
  37. Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) — Kono Kujirai
  38. Spring Awakens (1947)
  39. The Conspirator (1961)
  40. The Lights of Asakusa (1937) — Marieda Matsushima