Name
Haruko Sugimura
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-01-06
Deathday
1997-04-04 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
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.
Known For
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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside vi...
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Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no pla...
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A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inte...
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Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he co...
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A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of une...
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Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younge...
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In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career an...
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The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finance...
- 1964 The Scent of Incense as Taromaru
- 1952 Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- 1942 The Day England Falls
- 1965 Red Beard as Kin, the madam
- 1963 Jidanya
- 1949 Late Spring as Masa Taguchi
- 1956 Early Spring as Tamako Tamura
- 1965 Kwaidan as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- 1948 G-Men of Japan
- 1963 Youth After School as Ayako
- 1961 The End of Summer as Katou Shige
- 1959 Good Morning as Kikue Haraguchi
- 1962 Till Tomorrow Is
- 1954 Late Chrysanthemums as Kin
- 1946 No Regrets for Our Youth as Madame Noge
- 1950 Four Seasons of Women as Osone
- 1962 Musume to watashi
- 1951 Repast as Matsu Murata
- 1956 Flowing as Someka
- 1962 Their Legacy
- 1959 Floating Weeds as Oyoshi
- 1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
- 1965 Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi as Ine's Mother
- 1953 Tokyo Story as Shige Kaneko
- 1951 Early Summer as Tami Yabe
- 1957 Tokyo Twilight as Shigeko Takeuchi
- 1955 Princess Yang Kwei-fei as Princess Yen-chun
- 1962 Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- 1964 Night Scandal as Hatsu Mimura
- 1965 Samurai Assassin as Tsuru
- 1995 A Last Note as Yoko Morimoto
- 1962 The Broken Commandment as School master's wife
- 1955 She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao's mother
- 1946 Morning for the Osone Family as Fusako Osone
- 1958 Summer Clouds as Mother
- 1969 Only Child
- 1973 The Petrified Forest
- 1949 Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Oshin
- 1949 Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Oshin
- 1941 White Heron
- 1941 A Diary of Our Love
- 1947 Spring Awakens
- 1954 The Story of Shunkin
- 1955 The Romance of Yushima
- 1945 Umi no tora
- 1961 The Conspirator
- 1945 Kanchō umi no bara
- 1937 The Lights of Asakusa as Marieda Matsushima
- 1951 愛情の旋風
- 1968 Slave Factory
- 1944 Army as Setsu
- 1961 The Gambler's Code as Oroku
- 1951 Freedom School
- 1957 Hadaka no Machi
- 1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
- 1948 Temptation as Tokie
- 1956 Samurai of the Great Earth
- 1995 The Written Face as Self
- 1957 The Crowded Train as Otome, the mother
- 1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Kayo Tani
- 1945 Umi o yobu koe
- 1961 The Rokumeikan
- 1959 The Rokumeikan
- 1961 Buddha as Vaidehi
- 1974 Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
- 1951 Fireworks Over the Sea as Kono Kujirai
- 1955 Policeman's Diary as Moyo Sugita
- 1950 Listen to the Voices of the Sea
- 1950 Till We Meet Again as Suga Ono
- 1950 The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Koyabu
- 1992 The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Kafu's Mother
- 1955 Life of Geisha
- 1960 Deep River Melody
- 1958 The Spell of the Hidden Gold as Sonoe
- 1962 The Wiser Age as Aki
- 1960 The Woman Who Touched Legs as Pickpocket Haruko
- 1940 Spring on Leper's Island
- 1948 Great X as Taka
- 1960 Goodbye to Glory as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
- 1983 I Lived, But... as Self
- 1963 Mother as Yoshie
- 1960 Runway to Hell as Okuma
- 1953 Reminiscence as Chikako
- 1948 Children Hand in Hand
- 1959 The Three Treasures as Narrator
- 1975 The Fossil as Itsuki's stepmother
- 1959 Beauty the Enemy as Fusa Yoshino
- 1966 The Daphne as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
- 1962 An Autumn Afternoon as Tomoko Sakuma
- 1940 Wedding Day
- 1963 The Navy
- 1988 Sakura-tai Chiru
- 1952 Forbidden Path
- 1953 Sunflower Girl
- 1932 Namiko
- 1947 Three-Fingered Detective
- 1965 With Beauty and Sorrow as Otoko's Mother
- 1971 Onna no hanamichi
- 1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water
- 1938 Nightingale as Midwife Yae
- 1954 The Glorious Days
- 1951 Beauty of Life
- 1952 The Wind Blows Twice
- 1941 The Tale of Jiro
- 1940 Ōhinata-mura
- 1958 Flower's Yearning as Ikegami Rie
- 1946 Kigeki wa owarinu
- 1955 Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- 1960 Banana
- 1952 A Meeting of Youths as Tamiyo
- 1954 Geisha Konatsu as Raku Kamioka
- 1953 Koshō musuko
- 1942 Yamasandō
- 1952 Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
- 1944 Mother of a Baby Eagle
- 1948 Black Cloud Road
- 1953 Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
- 1973 雪の華 ( 2 episodes )
- 1987 An Early Autumn ( 1 episode )
- 1970 Second generation ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Fossil ( 8 episodes ) as Mother-in-Law
