Haruko Sugimura

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-01-07 (88 years old)

Deathday

1997-04-04

Place of Birth

Hiroshima, Japan

Haruko Sugimura

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.

Acting

1964

1965

Red Beard

as Kin, the madam

1949

Late Spring

as Masa Taguchi

1956

Early Spring

as Tamako Tamura

1965

Kwaidan

as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

1963

1961

The End of Summer

as Katou Shige

1959

Good Morning

as Kikue Haraguchi

1946

1951

Repast

as Matsu Murata

1956

Flowing

as Someka

1959

1965

1953

Tokyo Story

as Shige Kaneko

1951

Early Summer

as Tami Yabe

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Shigeko Takeuchi

1955

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

as Princess Yen-chun

1964

Night Scandal

as Hatsu Mimura

1965

1995

A Last Note

as Yoko Morimoto

1962

The Broken Commandment

as School master's wife

1946

1958

Summer Clouds

as Mother

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

as Marieda Matsushima

1944

Army

as Setsu

1961

1948

Temptation

as Tokie

1995

1957

The Crowded Train

as Otome, the mother

1961

Buddha

as Vaidehi

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

as Kono Kujirai

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Moyo Sugita

1950

1992

1962

1960

The Woman Who Touched Legs

as Pickpocket Haruko

1948

Great X

as Taka

1960

Goodbye to Glory

as Fukunaga's mother Yuki

1983

1963

Mother

as Yoshie

1960

1953

Reminiscence

as Chikako

1959

1974

The Fossil

as Itsuki's stepmother

1959

Beauty the Enemy

as Fusa Yoshino

1966

The Daphne

as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Tomoko Sakuma

1932

1965

With Beauty and Sorrow

as Otoko's Mother

1938

Nightingale

as Midwife Yae

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