Haruko Sugimura
Acting • Born 1909-01-07 – Died 1997-04-04
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.
Filmography
111 credits
The Scent of Incense
Movie • 1964
Taromaru
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
The Day England Falls
Movie • 1942
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Kin, the madam
Jidanya
Movie • 1963
Late Spring
Movie • 1949
Masa Taguchi
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Tamako Tamura
Kwaidan
Movie • 1965
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
G-Men of Japan
Movie • 1948
Youth After School
Movie • 1963
Ayako
The End of Summer
Movie • 1961
Katou Shige
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Kikue Haraguchi
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Movie • 1962
Late Chrysanthemums
Movie • 1954
Kin
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie • 1946
Madame Noge
Four Seasons of Women
Movie • 1950
Osone
Musume to watashi
Movie • 1962
Repast
Movie • 1951
Matsu Murata
Flowing
Movie • 1956
Someka
Their Legacy
Movie • 1962
Floating Weeds
Movie • 1959
Oyoshi
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie • 1967
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Movie • 1965
Ine's Mother
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Shige Kaneko
Early Summer
Movie • 1951
Tami Yabe
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Shigeko Takeuchi
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie • 1955
Princess Yen-chun
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Movie • 1962
Night Scandal
Movie • 1964
Hatsu Mimura
Samurai Assassin
Movie • 1965
Tsuru
A Last Note
Movie • 1995
Yoko Morimoto
The Broken Commandment
Movie • 1962
School master's wife
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Movie • 1955
Masao's mother
Morning for the Osone Family
Movie • 1946
Fusako Osone
Summer Clouds
Movie • 1958
Mother
Only Child
Movie • 1969
The Petrified Forest
Movie • 1973
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Movie • 1949
Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Movie • 1949
Oshin
White Heron
Movie • 1941
A Diary of Our Love
Movie • 1941
Spring Awakens
Movie • 1947
The Story of Shunkin
Movie • 1954
The Romance of Yushima
Movie • 1955
Umi no tora
Movie • 1945
The Conspirator
Movie • 1961
Kanchō umi no bara
Movie • 1945
The Lights of Asakusa
Movie • 1937
Marieda Matsushima
愛情の旋風
Movie • 1951
Dorei kōjō
Movie • 1968
Army
Movie • 1944
Setsu
The Gambler's Code
Movie • 1961
Oroku
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie • 1946
Temptation
Movie • 1948
Tokie
Samurai of the Great Earth
Movie • 1956
The Written Face
Movie • 1995
Self
The Crowded Train
Movie • 1957
Otome, the mother
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie • 1960
Kayo Tani
Umi o yobu koe
Movie • 1945
The Rokumeikan
Movie • 1959
The Rokumeikan
Movie • 1961
Buddha
Movie • 1961
Vaidehi
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Movie • 1974
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Kono Kujirai
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Moyo Sugita
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Movie • 1950
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1950
Suga Ono
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Movie • 1950
Koyabu
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Movie • 1992
Kafu's Mother
Deep River Melody
Movie • 1960
Life of Geisha
Movie • 1955
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Movie • 1958
Sonoe
The Wiser Age
Movie • 1962
Aki
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Movie • 1960
Pickpocket Haruko
Spring on Leper's Island
Movie • 1940
Great X
Movie • 1948
Taka
Goodbye to Glory
Movie • 1960
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
I Lived, But...
Movie • 1983
Self
Mother
Movie • 1963
Yoshie
Runway to Hell
Movie • 1960
Okuma
Reminiscence
Movie • 1953
Chikako
Children Hand in Hand
Movie • 1948
The Three Treasures
Movie • 1959
Narrator
The Fossil
Movie • 1975
Itsuki's stepmother
Beauty the Enemy
Movie • 1959
Fusa Yoshino
The Daphne
Movie • 1966
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 1962
Tomoko Sakuma
Wedding Day
Movie • 1940
The Navy
Movie • 1963
Sakura-tai Chiru
Movie • 1988
Forbidden Path
Movie • 1952
Sunflower Girl
Movie • 1953
Namiko
Movie • 1932
Three-Fingered Detective
Movie • 1947
With Beauty and Sorrow
Movie • 1965
Otoko's Mother
Onna no hanamichi
Movie • 1971
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953
Nightingale
Movie • 1938
Midwife Yae
The Glorious Days
Movie • 1954
The Wind Blows Twice
Movie • 1952
Beauty of Life
Movie • 1951
The Tale of Jiro
Movie • 1941
Ōhinata-mura
Movie • 1940
Flower's Yearning
Movie • 1958
Ikegami Rie
Kigeki wa owarinu
Movie • 1946
雪の華
TV • 1973
An Early Autumn
TV • 1987
Second generation
TV • 1970
Fossil
TV • 1972
Mother-in-Law