Haruko Sugimura
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as Shige Kaneko Tokyo Story 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.
Filmography
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
Repast
as Matsu Murata
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
Flowing
as Someka
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
Army
as Setsu