Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Born January 7, 1909 · 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.
Films (107)
The Written Face
1995
A Last Note
1995
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
I Lived, But...
1983
The Fossil
1975
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Petrified Forest
1973
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Only Child
1969
Dorei kōjō
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Daphne
1966
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
Red Beard
1965
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Kwaidan
1965
Samurai Assassin
1965
Night Scandal
1964
The Scent of Incense
1964
Mother
1963
Jidanya
1963
The Navy
1963
Youth After School
1963
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
The Broken Commandment
1962
Musume to watashi
1962
As Long as There's Tomorrow
1962
The Wiser Age
1962
Their Legacy
1962
The Rokumeikan
1961
The Conspirator
1961
Buddha
1961
The End of Summer
1961
The Gambler's Code
1961
Deep River Melody
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Runway to Hell
1960
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Floating Weeds
1959
The Three Treasures
1959
Beauty the Enemy
1959
The Rokumeikan
1959
Good Morning
1959
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
Summer Clouds
1958
Flower's Yearning
1958
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Crowded Train
1957
Flowing
1956
Early Spring
1956
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Policeman's Diary
1955
Life of Geisha
1955
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
The Glorious Days
1954
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Tokyo Story
1953
Sunflower Girl
1953
Reminiscence
1953
Forbidden Path
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
Beauty of Life
1951
Repast
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
Early Summer
1951
Freedom School
1951
愛情の旋風
1951
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Till We Meet Again
1950
Four Seasons of Women
1950
Late Spring
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
G-Men of Japan
1948
Great X
1948
Temptation
1948
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Spring Awakens
1947
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Umi no tora
1945
Army
1944
The Day England Falls
1942
The 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
1938
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
Namiko
1932