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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