Haruko Sugimura
Actor
- Born
- January 6, 1909 · Hiroshima, Japan
- Died
- April 4, 1997 (age 88)
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
Tokyo Story
November 3, 1953
Late Spring
September 13, 1949
Kwaidan
January 6, 1965
Red Beard
March 4, 1965
An Autumn Afternoon
November 18, 1962
Good Morning
May 12, 1959
Early Summer
October 3, 1951
Floating Weeds
November 17, 1959
Tokyo Twilight
April 30, 1957
The End of Summer
October 29, 1961
Early Spring
January 29, 1956
No Regrets for Our Youth
October 29, 1946
Acting122
- 1995The Written Face as Self
- 1995A Last Note as Yoko Morimoto
- 1992The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Kafu's Mother
- 1988Sakura-tai Chiru
- 1983I Lived, But... as Self
- 1975The Fossil as Itsuki's stepmother
- 1974Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
- 1973The Petrified Forest
- 1971Onna no hanamichi
- 1969Only Child
- 1968Slave Factory