Haruko Sugimura
Born: 1909-01-06 in Hiroshima, Japan
Died: 1997-04-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1995
- The Written Face as Self
- A Last Note as Yoko Morimoto
1992
- The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Kafu's Mother
1988
1987
1983
- I Lived, But... as Self
1975
- The Fossil as Itsuki's stepmother
1973
1972
- Fossil as Mother-in-Law
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
- The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as Narrator (voice)
1966
- The Daphne as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1965
- Red Beard as Kin, the madam
- Kwaidan as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- Samurai Assassin as Tsuru
- With Beauty and Sorrow as Otoko's Mother
- Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi as Ine's Mother
1964
- The Scent of Incense as Taromaru
- Night Scandal as Hatsu Mimura
1963
- The Navy
- Mother as Yoshie
- Youth After School as Ayako
- Jidanya
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Tomoko Sakuma
- The Broken Commandment as School master's wife
- The Wiser Age as Aki
- Their Legacy
- Musume to watashi
- Till Tomorrow Is
- Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1961
- The End of Summer as Katou Shige
- Buddha as Vaidehi
- The Conspirator
- The Gambler's Code as Oroku
- The Rokumeikan
1960
- The Woman Who Touched Legs as Pickpocket Haruko
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Kayo Tani
- Runway to Hell as Okuma
- Deep River Melody
- Banana
- Goodbye to Glory as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1959
- Good Morning as Kikue Haraguchi
- The Three Treasures as Narrator
- Floating Weeds as Oyoshi
- Pilgrimage at Night as Osai
- Beauty the Enemy as Fusa Yoshino
- The Rokumeikan
1958
- Summer Clouds as Mother
- The Spell of the Hidden Gold as Sonoe
- Flower's Yearning as Ikegami Rie
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Shigeko Takeuchi
- The Crowded Train as Otome, the mother
- Hadaka no Machi
1956
- Early Spring as Tamako Tamura
- Flowing as Someka
- Yonjū-hassai no teikō
- Samurai of the Great Earth
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei as Princess Yen-chun
- The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao's mother
- Policeman's Diary as Moyo Sugita
- Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- The Romance of Yushima
- Life of Geisha
1954
- Geisha Konatsu as Raku Kamioka
- Late Chrysanthemums as Kin
- The Glorious Days
- The Story of Shunkin
1953
- Tokyo Story as Shige Kaneko
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
- Reminiscence as Chikako
- Sunflower Girl
- Koshō musuko
1952
1951
- Repast as Matsu Murata
- Early Summer as Tami Yabe
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Kono Kujirai
- Beauty of Life
- Freedom School
- 愛情の旋風
1950
- Till We Meet Again as Suga Ono
- Four Seasons of Women as Osone
- The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Koyabu
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1949
- Late Spring as Masa Taguchi
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Oshin
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Oshin
1948
- G-Men of Japan
- Children Hand in Hand
- Black Cloud Road
- Temptation as Tokie
- Great X as Taka
1946
- No Regrets for Our Youth as Madame Noge
- A Descendant of Urashima Taro
- Morning for the Osone Family as Fusako Osone
- Kigeki wa owarinu
1944
- Army as Setsu
- Mother of a Baby Eagle
1938
- Nightingale as Midwife Yae
1937
- The Lights of Asakusa as Marieda Matsushima