Haruko Sugimura
Born: 1909-01-06 in Hiroshima, Japon
Died: 1997-04-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1995
- A Last Note as Yoko Morimoto
- The Written Face as Self
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
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
- Youth After School as Ayako
- Mother as Yoshie
- Jidanya
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Tomoko Sakuma
- The Broken Commandment as School master's wife
- Till Tomorrow Is
- The Wiser Age as Aki
- Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- Musume to watashi
- Their Legacy
1961
- The End of Summer as Katou Shige
- Buddha as Vaidehi
- The Conspirator
- The Gambler's Code as Oroku
- The Rokumeikan
1960
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Kayo Tani
- Deep River Melody
- Runway to Hell as Okuma
- Goodbye to Glory as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
- The Woman Who Touched Legs as Pickpocket Haruko
- Banana
1959
- Good Morning as Kikue Haraguchi
- The Three Treasures as Narrator
- Floating Weeds as Oyoshi
- 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
- Samurai of the Great Earth
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei as Princess Yen-chun
- You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao's mother
- Policeman's Diary as Moyo Sugita
- The Romance of Yushima
- Life of Geisha
- Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1954
- Late Chrysanthemums as Kin
- The Glorious Days
- The Story of Shunkin
- Geisha Konatsu as Raku Kamioka
1953
- Tokyo Story as Shige Kaneko
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- Sunflower Girl
- Reminiscence as Chikako
1951
- Repast as Matsu Murata
- Early Summer as Tami Yabe
- Freedom School
- Beauty of Life
- 愛情の旋風
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Kono Kujirai
1950
- The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Koyabu
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea
- Four Seasons of Women as Osone
- Till We Meet Again as Suga Ono
1949
- Late Spring as Masa Taguchi
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Oshin
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Oshin
1948
- Temptation as Tokie
- Great X as Taka
- G-Men of Japan
- Children Hand in Hand
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
1938
- Nightingale as Midwife Yae
1937
- The Lights of Asakusa as Marieda Matsushima