Haruko Sugimura
Known for: Acting
Born: January 6, 1909 in Hiroshima, Japan - Died: April 3, 1997
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.
Known for
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The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Day England Falls
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Jidanya
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
G-Men of Japan
Youth After School
Ayako
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
Till Tomorrow Is
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
Musume to watashi
Repast
Matsu Murata
Flowing
Someka
Their Legacy
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko