Haruko Sugimura
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 6, 1909
- Died
- April 4, 1997 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Hiroshima, Japan
Biography
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
Movie · as Yoko Morimoto
The Written Face
Movie · as Self
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Movie · as Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru
Movie
An Early Autumn
TV · 1 ep
I Lived, But...
Movie · as Self
The Fossil
Movie · as Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Movie
The Petrified Forest
Movie
雪の華
TV · 2 eps
Fossil
TV · as Mother-in-Law · 8 eps
Onna no hanamichi
Movie
Second generation
TV · 1 ep
Only Child
Movie
Slave Factory
Movie
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Daphne
Movie · as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Red Beard
Movie · as Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
Movie · as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Movie · as Ine's Mother
Samurai Assassin
Movie · as Tsuru
With Beauty and Sorrow
Movie · as Otoko's Mother
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie
The Scent of Incense
Movie · as Taromaru
Night Scandal
Movie · as Hatsu Mimura
Jidanya
Movie
Youth After School
Movie · as Ayako
Mother
Movie · as Yoshie
The Navy
Movie
Till Tomorrow Is
Movie
Musume to watashi
Movie
Their Legacy
Movie
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Movie
The Broken Commandment
Movie · as School master's wife
The Wiser Age
Movie · as Aki
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie · as Tomoko Sakuma
The End of Summer
Movie · as Katou Shige
The Conspirator
Movie
The Gambler's Code
Movie · as Oroku
The Rokumeikan
Movie
Buddha
Movie · as Vaidehi
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie · as Kayo Tani
Deep River Melody
Movie
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Movie · as Pickpocket Haruko
Goodbye to Glory
Movie · as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Runway to Hell
Movie · as Okuma
Banana
Movie
Good Morning
Movie · as Kikue Haraguchi
Floating Weeds
Movie · as Oyoshi
The Rokumeikan
Movie
The Three Treasures
Movie · as Narrator
Beauty the Enemy
Movie · as Fusa Yoshino
Pilgrimage at Night
Movie · as Osai
Summer Clouds
Movie · as Mother
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Movie · as Sonoe
Flower's Yearning
Movie · as Ikegami Rie
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
Movie · as Shigeko Takeuchi
Hadaka no Machi
Movie
The Crowded Train
Movie · as Otome, the mother
Early Spring
Movie · as Tamako Tamura
Flowing
Movie · as Someka
Samurai of the Great Earth
Movie
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
Movie
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie · as Princess Yen-chun
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Movie · as Masao's mother
The Romance of Yushima
Movie
Policeman's Diary
Movie · as Moyo Sugita
Life of Geisha
Movie
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
Movie
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
Movie
Late Chrysanthemums
Movie · as Kin
The Story of Shunkin
Movie
The Glorious Days
Movie
Geisha Konatsu
Movie · as Raku Kamioka
Tokyo Story
Movie · as Shige Kaneko
Reminiscence
Movie · as Chikako
Sunflower Girl
Movie
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie
Koshō musuko
Movie
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
Movie
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie
Forbidden Path
Movie
The Wind Blows Twice
Movie · as Oritsu
A Meeting of Youths
Movie · as Tamiyo
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
Movie
Repast
Movie · as Matsu Murata
Early Summer
Movie · as Tami Yabe
愛情の旋風
Movie
Freedom School
Movie
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie · as Kono Kujirai
Beauty of Life
Movie
Four Seasons of Women
Movie · as Osone
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Movie
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Suga Ono
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Movie · as Koyabu
Late Spring
Movie · as Masa Taguchi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Movie · as Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Movie · as Oshin
G-Men of Japan
Movie
Temptation
Movie · as Tokie
Great X
Movie · as Taka
Children Hand in Hand
Movie
Black Cloud Road
Movie
Spring Awakens
Movie
Three-Fingered Detective
Movie
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie · as Madame Noge
Morning for the Osone Family
Movie · as Fusako Osone
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie
Kigeki wa owarinu
Movie
Umi no tora
Movie
Kanchō umi no bara
Movie
Umi o yobu koe
Movie
Army
Movie · as Setsu
Mother of a Baby Eagle
Movie
The Day England Falls
Movie
Yamasandō
Movie
White Heron
Movie
A Diary of Our Love
Movie
The Tale of Jiro
Movie
Spring on Leper's Island
Movie
Wedding Day
Movie
Ōhinata-mura
Movie
Nightingale
Movie · as Midwife Yae
The Lights of Asakusa
Movie · as Marieda Matsushima
Namiko
Movie