Acting
Haruko Sugimura
JA, DE cinema · 122 credits
Born
6 January 1909
Died
4 April 1997 (aged 88)
Birthplace
Hiroshima, Japan
Also known as هاروکو سوگیمورا
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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
Filmography
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
The Written Face
as Self
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's Mother
I Lived, But...
as Self
The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmother
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Narrator (voice)
The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's Mother
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
The Scent of Incense
as Taromaru
Night Scandal
as Hatsu Mimura
Mother
as Yoshie
The Broken Commandment
as School master's wife
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
The Gambler's Code
as Oroku
Buddha
as Vaidehi
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket Haruko
Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Runway to Hell
as Okuma
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa Yoshino
Summer Clouds
as Mother
Flower's Yearning
as Ikegami Rie
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
The Crowded Train
as Otome, the mother
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
Flowing
as Someka
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
Policeman's Diary
as Moyo Sugita
Geisha Konatsu
as Raku Kamioka
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
Reminiscence
as Chikako
Repast
as Matsu Murata
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono Kujirai
Till We Meet Again
as Suga Ono
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
Temptation
as Tokie
Great X
as Taka
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako Osone
Army
as Setsu
Nightingale
as Midwife Yae
The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda Matsushima
