Haruko Sugimura
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Haruko Sugimura
Self
... 1995
Yoko Morimoto
... 1995
Kafu's Mother
... 1992
... 1988
Self
... 1983
Itsuki's stepmother
... 1975
... 1974
... 1973
... 1971
... 1969
... 1968
... 1967
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
... 1966
Ine's Mother
... 1965
Kin, the madam
... 1965
Otoko's Mother
... 1965
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
... 1965
Tsuru
... 1965
Hatsu Mimura
... 1964
Taromaru
... 1964
Yoshie
... 1963
... 1963
... 1963
Ayako
... 1963
Tomoko Sakuma
... 1962
... 1962
School master's wife
... 1962
... 1962
... 1962
Aki
... 1962
... 1962
... 1961
... 1961
Vaidehi
... 1961
Katou Shige
... 1961
Oroku
... 1961
... 1960
Pickpocket Haruko
... 1960
Kayo Tani
... 1960
Okuma
... 1960
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
... 1960
Oyoshi
... 1959
Narrator
... 1959
Fusa Yoshino
... 1959
... 1959
Kikue Haraguchi
... 1959
... 1958
Mother
... 1958
Ikegami Rie
... 1958
... 1957
Shigeko Takeuchi
... 1957
Otome, the mother
... 1957
Someka
... 1956
Tamako Tamura
... 1956
... 1956
Masao's mother
... 1955
... 1955
Princess Yen-chun
... 1955
Moyo Sugita
... 1955
... 1955
... 1954
... 1954
... 1954
... 1953
Shige Kaneko
... 1953
... 1953
Chikako
... 1953
... 1952
... 1952
... 1952
... 1951
Matsu Murata
... 1951
Kono Kujirai
... 1951
Tami Yabe
... 1951
... 1951
... 1951
Koyabu
... 1950
... 1950
Suga Ono
... 1950
Osone
... 1950
Masa Taguchi
... 1949
... 1949
... 1949
... 1948
Taka
... 1948
Tokie
... 1948
... 1948
... 1947
... 1947
Madame Noge
... 1946
... 1946
Fusako Osone
... 1946
... 1945
... 1945
... 1945
Setsu
... 1944
... 1942
... 1941
... 1941
... 1941
... 1940
... 1940
... 1940
Midwife Yae
... 1938
Marieda Matsushima
... 1937
... 1932