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…
Filmography
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The Written Face
1995
A Last Note
1995
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
An Early Autumn
1987
I Lived, But...
1983
The Fossil
1975
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
雪の華
雪の華
1973
The Petrified Forest
1973
Fossil
1972
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Second generation
1970
Only Child
1969
Slave Factory
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
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
The Wiser Age
1962
Their Legacy
1962
The Rokumeikan
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
Banana
1960
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Floating Weeds
1959
The Three Treasures
1959
Beauty the Enemy
1959
The Rokumeikan
The Rokumeikan
1959
Good Morning
1959
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
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
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Policeman's Diary
1955
Life of Geisha
Life of Geisha
1955
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
The Glorious Days
1954
Geisha Konatsu
1954
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Tokyo Story
1953
Koshō musuko
1953
Sunflower Girl
1953
Reminiscence
1953
Forbidden Path
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Beauty of Life
1951