Haruko Sugimura
Known for Acting
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
1953
as Shige Kaneko
Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
1965
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Good Morning
1959
as Kikue Haraguchi
Late Spring
1949
as Masa Taguchi
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
as Kayo Tani
Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Shigeko Takeuchi
Summer Clouds
1958
as Mother
The Three Treasures
1959
as Narrator
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
as Madame Noge
Early Spring
1956
as Tamako Tamura
Floating Weeds
1959
as Oyoshi
The End of Summer
1961
as Katou Shige
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Tomoko Sakuma
Early Summer
1951
as Tami Yabe
Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuru
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
as Kafu's Mother
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
as Princess Yen-chun
Repast
1951
as Matsu Murata
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967