Acting
Haruko Sugimura
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.
Movies with Haruko Sugimura
Tokyo Story
1953
Red Beard
1965
Late Spring
1949
Kwaidan
1965
Good Morning
1959
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Floating Weeds
1959
Early Summer
1951
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
The End of Summer
1961
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Early Spring
1956
Samurai Assassin
1965
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Three Treasures
1959
Buddha
1961
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Flowing
1956
The Written Face
1995
Summer Clouds
1958
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Koshō musuko
1953
Repast
1951
The Scent of Incense
1964
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
The Crowded Train
1957
Spring Awakens
1947
A Last Note
1995
The Fossil
1975
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
The Wiser Age
1962
Hadaka no Machi
1957
The Broken Commandment
1962
The Petrified Forest
1973
Till We Meet Again
1950
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
The Daphne
1966
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
Army
1944
Forbidden Path
1952
Reminiscence
1953
Mother
1963
Their Legacy
1962
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Beauty the Enemy
1959
G-Men of Japan
1948
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Great X
1948
The Gambler's Code
1961
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
Slave Factory
1968
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
The Navy
1963
Deep River Melody
1960
Runway to Hell
1960
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Temptation
1948
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
Night Scandal
1964
Beauty of Life
1951
I Lived, But...
1983
Freedom School
1951
Four Seasons of Women
1950
Nightingale
1938
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Youth After School
1963
Sunflower Girl
1953
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
The Conspirator
1961
Musume to watashi
1962
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
The Story of Shunkin
1954
The Glorious Days
1954
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Wedding Day
1940
Yamasandō
1942
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
The Day England Falls
1942
Banana
1960
Policeman's Diary
1955
Only Child
1969
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
White Heron
1941
Jidanya
1963
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Flower's Yearning
1958
Geisha Konatsu
1954
Life of Geisha
1955
Umi no tora
1945
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
The Rokumeikan
1961
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
The Rokumeikan
1959
Ōhinata-mura
1940
愛情の旋風
1951
Namiko
1932
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
