Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Born: January 6, 1909 · Hiroshima, Japan
Died: April 4, 1997 (aged 88)
Highest Rated
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
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 (107)
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
The Petrified Forest
1973
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
The Three Treasures
Narrator
Summer Clouds
Mother
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
Koshō musuko
1953
Army
Setsu
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Their Legacy
1962
Mother
Yoshie
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Children Hand in Hand
1948
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Flowing
Someka
Buddha
Vaidehi
The Wiser Age
Aki
Namiko
1932
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
Freedom School
1951
Repast
Matsu Murata
The Conspirator
1961
The Glorious Days
1954
G-Men of Japan
1948
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Spring Awakens
1947
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
Deep River Melody
1960
Musume to watashi
1962
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Geisha Konatsu
Raku Kamioka
Pilgrimage at Night
Osai
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Great X
Taka
Sunflower Girl
1953
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
Slave Factory
1968
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
Jidanya
1963
Beauty of Life
1951
Wedding Day
1940
Youth After School
Ayako
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
Black Cloud Road
1948
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Banana
1960
White Heron
1941
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Temptation
Tokie
The Navy
1963
Only Child
1969
A Meeting of Youths
Tamiyo
Reminiscence
Chikako
The Day England Falls
1942
Forbidden Path
1952
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
