Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Born: January 6, 1909 · Hiroshima, Japan
Died: April 4, 1997 (aged 88)
Highest Rated
Biography
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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
1953
Late Spring
1949
Kwaidan
1965
Red Beard
1965
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Good Morning
1959
Early Summer
1951
Floating Weeds
1959
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The End of Summer
1961
Early Spring
1956
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Photos (1)
Movies (109)
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
Repast
Matsu Murata
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Narrator (voice)
The Conspirator
1961
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
Army
Setsu
The Petrified Forest
1973
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Beauty of Life
1951
The Navy
1963
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Mother
Yoshie
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
Spring Awakens
1947
The Wiser Age
Aki
The Three Treasures
Narrator
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
Youth After School
Ayako
Buddha
Vaidehi
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Jidanya
1963
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
Flowing
Someka
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Freedom School
1951
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Geisha Konatsu
Raku Kamioka
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
G-Men of Japan
1948
Black Cloud Road
1948
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
White Heron
1941
Forbidden Path
1952
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
Summer Clouds
Mother
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
Sunflower Girl
1953
Koshō musuko
1953
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Musume to watashi
1962
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
Pilgrimage at Night
Osai
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
The Wind Blows Twice
Oritsu
Deep River Melody
1960
The Glorious Days
1954
Temptation
Tokie
Great X
Taka
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Wedding Day
1940
Slave Factory
1968
Reminiscence
Chikako
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Banana
1960
The Day England Falls
1942
Their Legacy
1962
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Only Child
1969
Namiko
1932
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
The Tale of Jiro
1941
A Meeting of Youths
Tamiyo
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
