Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

1909-01-06 – 1997-04-04 (age 88) Hiroshima, Japan
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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.

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Known For

Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story

1953

as Shige Kaneko

Kwaidan
Kwaidan

1965

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

Red Beard
Red Beard

1965

as Kin, the madam

The Woman Who Touched Legs
The Woman Who Touched Legs

1960

as Pickpocket Haruko

Late Spring
Late Spring

1949

as Masa Taguchi

Hadaka no Machi
Their Legacy
Good Morning
Good Morning

1959

as Kikue Haraguchi

Runway to Hell
Runway to Hell

1960

as Okuma

An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon

1962

as Tomoko Sakuma

Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds

1959

as Oyoshi

Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight

1957

as Shigeko Takeuchi

Early Summer
Early Summer

1951

as Tami Yabe

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
The Strange Tale of Oyuki

1992

as Kafu's Mother

Samurai Assassin
Samurai Assassin

1965

as Tsuru

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yang Kwei-fei

1955

as Princess Yen-chun

Reminiscence
Reminiscence

1953

as Chikako

The End of Summer
The End of Summer

1961

as Katou Shige