Haruko Sugimura
Born
January 7, 1909
Died
April 4, 1997 (88 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
The Written Face
Self
1995
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
1995
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
1992
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
An Early Autumn
(1 episode)
1987
I Lived, But...
Self
1983
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
1974
雪の華
(2 episodes)
1973
The Petrified Forest
1973
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Second generation
(1 episode)
1970
Only Child
1969
Dorei kōjō
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1966
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
1965
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
1965
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
1965
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
1965
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
1964
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
1964
Mother
Yoshie
1963
Jidanya
1963
The Navy
1963
Youth After School
Ayako
1963
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
1962
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
1962
Musume to watashi
1962
Till Tomorow Comes
1962
The Wiser Age
Aki
1962
Their Legacy
1962
The Rokumeikan
1961
The Conspirator
1961
Buddha
Vaidehi
1961
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
1961
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
1961
Deep River Melody
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
1960
Runway to Hell
Okuma
1960
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1960
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
1959
The Three Treasures
Narrator
1959
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
1959
The Rokumeikan
1959
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
1959
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe
1958
Summer Clouds
Mother
1958
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
1957
Flowing
Someka
1956
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
1956
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
1955
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
1955
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
1955
Life of Geisha
1955
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
1954
The Glorious Days
1954
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
1953
Sunflower Girl
1953
Reminiscence
Chikako
1953
Forbidden Path
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
Beauty of Life
1951
Repast
Matsu Murata
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
1951
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
1951
Freedom School
1951
愛情の旋風
1951
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
1950
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
1950
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
1950
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
1949
G-Men of Japan
1948
Great X
Taka
1948
Temptation
Tokie
1948
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Spring Awakens
1947
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
1946
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Umi no tora
1945
Army
Setsu
1944
The Day England Falls
1942
Tale of Jiro
1941
A Diary of Our Love
1941
White Heron
1941
Ōhinata-mura
1940
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Wedding Day
1940
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
1938
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
1937
Namiko
1932