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