Haruko Sugimura
Acting
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 121
Movies (117)
The Written Face1995Self
A Last Note1995Yoko Morimoto
The Strange Tale of Oyuki1992Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru1988
I Lived, But...1983Self
The Fossil1975Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon1974
The Petrified Forest1973
Onna no hanamichi1971
Only Child1969
Slave Factory1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka1967
The Daphne1966Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi1965Ine's Mother
Red Beard1965Kin, the madam
With Beauty and Sorrow1965Otoko's Mother
Kwaidan1965Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Samurai Assassin1965Tsuru
Night Scandal1964Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense1964Taromaru
Mother1963Yoshie
Jidanya1963
The Navy1963
Youth After School1963Ayako
An Autumn Afternoon1962Tomoko Sakuma
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi1962
The Broken Commandment1962School master's wife
Musume to watashi1962
Till Tomorrow Is1962
The Wiser Age1962Aki
Shows (4)
An Early Autumn1987- 雪の華1973
Fossil1972Mother-in-Law
Second generation1970