Haruko Sugimura
Acting
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.
As actor 124
Tokyo Story
1953
Red Beard
1965
Kwaidan
1965
Late Spring
1949
Tokyo Twilight
1957
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
I Lived, But...
1983
Slave Factory
1968
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Good Morning
1959
Early Spring
1956
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Floating Weeds
1959
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
Fossil
1972
The End of Summer
1961
The Three Treasures
1959
Early Summer
1951
The Fossil
1975
Their Legacy
1962
Deep River Melody
1960
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
Freedom School
1951
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
The Crowded Train
1957
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Runway to Hell
1960
Summer Clouds
1958
Army
1944
Mother
1963
Till We Meet Again
1950
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Beauty the Enemy
1959
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
The Broken Commandment
1962
The Conspirator
1961
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
The Gambler's Code
1961
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
An Early Autumn
1987
The Written Face
1995
Samurai Assassin
1965
Repast
1951
The Glorious Days
1954
A Last Note
1995
Hadaka no Machi
1957
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Second generation
1970
Flowing
1956
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
Yamasandō
1942
The Navy
1963
Buddha
1961
Spring Awakens
1947
Banana
1960
Jidanya
1963
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
Policeman's Diary
1955
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Great X
1948
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
The Scent of Incense
1964
Four Seasons of Women
1950
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
The Petrified Forest
1973
Geisha Konatsu
1954
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Youth After School
1963
愛情の旋風
1951
The Wiser Age
1962
雪の華
1973
G-Men of Japan
1948
Koshō musuko
1953
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Only Child
1969
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
The Daphne
1966
Reminiscence
1953
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
Beauty of Life
1951
Umi no tora
1945
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
Sunflower Girl
1953
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Black Cloud Road
1948
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Musume to watashi
1962
Wedding Day
1940
The Rokumeikan
1961
Flower's Yearning
1958
White Heron
1941
Nightingale
1938
The Rokumeikan
1959
Forbidden Path
1952
Night Scandal
1964
The Tale of Jiro
1941
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
The Day England Falls
1942
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Temptation
1948
Namiko
1932
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Life of Geisha
1955
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Ōhinata-mura
1940
Umi o yobu koe
1945