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