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
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Slave Factory
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
Fossil
Mother-in-Law
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Their Legacy
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
The Three Treasures
Narrator
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
Children Hand in Hand
Deep River Melody
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
Pilgrimage at Night
Osai
The Story of Shunkin
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
I Lived, But...
Self
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
Mother
Yoshie
Hadaka no Machi
Three-Fingered Detective
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
Yamasandō
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Summer Clouds
Mother
