Haruko Sugimura
Born: 1909-01-07
• Hiroshima, Japan
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.
Filmography
The Written Face
A Last Note
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Sakura-tai Chiru
I Lived, But...
The Fossil
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
The Petrified Forest
Onna no hanamichi
Only Child
Dorei kōjō
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Daphne
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Red Beard
With Beauty and Sorrow
Kwaidan
Samurai Assassin
Night Scandal
The Scent of Incense
Mother
Jidanya
The Navy
Youth After School
An Autumn Afternoon
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Broken Commandment
Musume to watashi
As Long as There's Tomorrow
The Wiser Age
Their Legacy
No Image
The Rokumeikan
The Conspirator
Buddha
The End of Summer
The Gambler's Code
Deep River Melody
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Runway to Hell
Goodbye to Glory
Floating Weeds
The Three Treasures
Beauty the Enemy
No Image
The Rokumeikan
Good Morning
No Image
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Summer Clouds
Flower's Yearning
Hadaka no Machi
Tokyo Twilight
The Crowded Train
Flowing
Early Spring
Samurai of the Great Earth
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
The Romance of Yushima
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Policeman's Diary
No Image
Life of Geisha
The Story of Shunkin
Late Chrysanthemums
The Glorious Days
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Tokyo Story
Sunflower Girl
Reminiscence
Forbidden Path
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Wind Blows Twice
Beauty of Life
Repast
Fireworks Over the Sea
Early Summer
Freedom School
No Image
愛情の旋風
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Till We Meet Again
Four Seasons of Women
Late Spring
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
G-Men of Japan
Great X
Temptation
Children Hand in Hand
Three-Fingered Detective
Spring Awakens
No Regrets for Our Youth
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Morning for the Osone Family
No Image
Kigeki wa owarinu
No Image
Umi o yobu koe
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Kanchō umi no bara
No Image
Umi no tora
Army
The Day England Falls
The Tale of Jiro
A Diary of Our Love