Haruko Sugimura
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
1965
Film
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
1949
Film
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
1953
Film
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965
Film
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
1962
Film
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
1959
Film
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
1961
Film
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
1951
Film
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
1955
Film
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
1992
Film
I Lived, But...
Self
1983
Film
Repast
Matsu Murata
1951
Film
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
1959
Film
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
1975
Film
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Narrator (voice)
1967
Film
The Conspirator
1961
Film
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
1956
Film
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
Film
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
1965
Film
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
1995
Film
Army
Setsu
1944
Series
Fossil
Mother-in-Law
1972
Film
The Written Face
Self
1995
Film
The Petrified Forest
1973
Film
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Film
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
1964
Film
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
1946
Film
Beauty of Life
1951
Film
The Navy
1963
Film
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
1957
Film
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
1951
Film
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
1949
Film
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Film
Mother
Yoshie
1963
Film
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
1955
Film
Spring Awakens
1947
Film
The Wiser Age
Aki
1962
Film
The Three Treasures
Narrator
1959
Film
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
1962
Film
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
1960
Film
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
1949
Film
Youth After School
Ayako
1963
Series
Second generation
1970
Film
Buddha
Vaidehi
1961
Film
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Film
Jidanya
1963
Film
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
1950
Film
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
1964
Film
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Film
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
1965
Film
Flowing
Someka
1956
Film
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Series
An Early Autumn
1987
Film
Freedom School
1951
Film
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
雪の華
1973
Film
Geisha Konatsu
Raku Kamioka
1954
Film
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
1955
Film
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
1946
Film
G-Men of Japan
1948
Film
Black Cloud Road
1948
Film
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
1961
Film
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Film
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
Film
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Film
White Heron
1941
Film
Forbidden Path
1952
Film
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie
1958
Film
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
1950
Film
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Film
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
1954
Film
Summer Clouds
Mother
1958
Film
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
Film
Sunflower Girl
1953
Film
Koshō musuko
1953
Film
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
1960
Film
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Film
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Film
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Film
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Film
Musume to watashi
1962
Film
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Film
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
愛情の旋風
1951
Film
Pilgrimage at Night
Osai
1959
The Rokumeikan
1961
Film
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Film
The Wind Blows Twice
Oritsu
1952
Film
Deep River Melody
1960
Film
The Glorious Days
1954
Film
Temptation
Tokie
1948
Film
Great X
Taka
1948
Film
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
1965
Film
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Film
Wedding Day
1940
Film
Slave Factory
1968
Film
Reminiscence
Chikako
1953
Film
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1966
Film
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Film
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
Film
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
1959
Film
Runway to Hell
Okuma
1960
Ōhinata-mura
1940
Film
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Film
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Film
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
1950
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Film
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Film
Banana
1960
Film
The Day England Falls
1942
Film
Their Legacy
1962
Film
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1960
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe
1958
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
Film
Only Child
1969
Film
Namiko
1932
Yamasandō
1942
Life of Geisha
1955
Film
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
1937
Film
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
1938
Umi o yobu koe
1945
The Rokumeikan
1959
Film
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Umi no tora
1945
Film
A Meeting of Youths
Tamiyo
1952
Film
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944