Haruko Sugimura
Acting1909Hiroshima, Japan
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.
Known For
Acting History
1995
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
The Written Face
as Self
1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's Mother
1988
1987
1983
I Lived, But...
as Self
1975
The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmother
1972
Fossil
TVas Mother-in-Law
1969
1968
1966
The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1965
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's Mother
1964
Night Scandal
as Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense
as Taromaru
1963
1962
1961
1960
Runway to Hell
as Okuma
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket Haruko
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1959
Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa Yoshino
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
1958
1957
1956
1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
Policeman's Diary
as Moyo Sugita
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
1953
1951
1950
1949
1948
1946
Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako Osone
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
1944
Army
as Setsu
1938
Nightingale
as Midwife Yae
1937
The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda Matsushima
1932