Haruko Sugimura
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.
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Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
1965
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
1953
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
1949
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
1962
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
1961
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
1959
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
1959
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
Repast
as Matsu Murata
1951
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
1959
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
1951
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
1955
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
1946
The Broken Commandment
as School master's wife
1962
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
1965
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's Mother
1992
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
1956
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
Buddha
as Vaidehi
1961
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
1995
The Written Face
as Self
1995
The Petrified Forest
1973
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
1960
The Conspirator
1961
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
1955
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono Kujirai
1951
Till We Meet Again
as Suga Ono
1950
The Crowded Train
as Otome, the mother
1957
Summer Clouds
as Mother
1958
The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmother
1975
The Scent of Incense
as Taromaru
1964
Their Legacy
1962
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Flowing
as Someka
1956
Reminiscence
as Chikako
1953
Policeman's Diary
as Moyo Sugita
1955
Spring Awakens
1947
The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1966
Jidanya
1963
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Runway to Hell
as Okuma
1960
Mother
as Yoshie
1963
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Narrator (voice)
1967
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
1954
Deep River Melody
1960
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oshin
1949
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
1965
Wedding Day
1940
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
as Sonoe
1958
Pilgrimage at Night
as Osai
1959
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket Haruko
1960
Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako Osone
1946
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Only Child
1969
The Gambler's Code
as Oroku
1961
The Wiser Age
as Aki
1962
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
Musume to watashi
1962
The Navy
1963
The Wind Blows Twice
as Oritsu
1952
Children Hand in Hand
1948
The Glorious Days
1954
Beauty of Life
1951
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Night Scandal
as Hatsu Mimura
1964
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oshin
1949
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
Yamasandō
1942
G-Men of Japan
1948
The Story of Shunkin
1954
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Koyabu
1950
Sunflower Girl
1953
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Umi no tora
1945
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Flower's Yearning
as Ikegami Rie
1958
The Rokumeikan
1961
Black Cloud Road
1948
Geisha Konatsu
as Raku Kamioka
1954
The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda Matsushima
1937
Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa Yoshino
1959
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Army
as Setsu
1944
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Slave Factory
1968
Banana
1960
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Forbidden Path
1952
Freedom School
1951
Great X
as Taka
1948
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's Mother
1965
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Ōhinata-mura
1940
Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1960
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Nightingale
as Midwife Yae
1938
Koshō musuko
1953
A Meeting of Youths
as Tamiyo
1952
Life of Geisha
1955
Namiko
1932
Youth After School
as Ayako
1963
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Temptation
as Tokie
1948
White Heron
1941
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Four Seasons of Women
as Osone
1950
Umi o yobu koe
1945
The Day England Falls
1942
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
The Rokumeikan
1959
