
Haruko Sugimura
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.
Acting (97 movies)

The Scent of Incense
1964

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

The Day England Falls
1942

Red Beard
1965

Jidanya
1963

Late Spring
1949

Early Spring
1956

Kwaidan
1965

G-Men of Japan
1948

Youth After School
1963

The End of Summer
1961

Good Morning
1959

As Long as There's Tomorrow
1962

Late Chrysanthemums
1954

No Regrets for Our Youth
1946

Four Seasons of Women
1950

Musume to watashi
1962

Repast
1951

Flowing
1956

Their Legacy
1962

Floating Weeds
1959

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965

Tokyo Story
1953

Early Summer
1951

Tokyo Twilight
1957

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962

Night Scandal
1964

Samurai Assassin
1965

A Last Note
1995

The Broken Commandment
1962

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955

Morning for the Osone Family
1946

Summer Clouds
1958

Only Child
1969

The Petrified Forest
1973

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949

White Heron
1941

A Diary of Our Love
1941

Spring Awakens
1947

The Story of Shunkin
1954

The Romance of Yushima
1955

The Conspirator
1961

The Lights of Asakusa
1937

Dorei kōjō
1968

Army
1944

The Gambler's Code
1961

Freedom School
1951

Hadaka no Machi
1957

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946

Temptation
1948

Samurai of the Great Earth
1956

The Written Face
1995

The Crowded Train
1957

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960

Buddha
1961

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974

Fireworks Over the Sea
1951

Policeman's Diary
1955

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950

Till We Meet Again
1950

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992

Deep River Melody
1960

The Wiser Age
1962

The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960

Spring on Leper's Island
1940

Great X
1948

Goodbye to Glory
1960

I Lived, But...
1983

Mother
1963

Runway to Hell
1960

Reminiscence
1953

Children Hand in Hand
1948

The Three Treasures
1959

The Fossil
1975

Beauty the Enemy
1959

The Daphne
1966

An Autumn Afternoon
1962

Wedding Day
1940

The Navy
1963

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988

Forbidden Path
1952

Sunflower Girl
1953

Namiko
1932

Three-Fingered Detective
1947

With Beauty and Sorrow
1965

Onna no hanamichi
1971

An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953

Nightingale
1938

The Glorious Days
1954

Beauty of Life
1951

The Wind Blows Twice
1952

Tale of Jiro
1941

Flower's Yearning
1958
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