Haruko Sugimura
Known for ActingBorn 1909-01-06 — died 1997-04-04Hiroshima, Japan
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
Tokyo Story
1953 · as Shige Kaneko
Red Beard
1965 · as Kin, the madam
Late Spring
1949 · as Masa Taguchi
Kwaidan
1965 · as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Good Morning
1959 · as Kikue Haraguchi
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · as Tomoko Sakuma
Floating Weeds
1959 · as Oyoshi
Early Summer
1951 · as Tami Yabe
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992 · as Kafu's Mother
The End of Summer
1961 · as Katou Shige
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955 · as Princess Yen-chun
Early Spring
1956 · as Tamako Tamura
Samurai Assassin
1965 · as Tsuru
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · as Shigeko Takeuchi
The Three Treasures
1959 · as Narrator
Buddha
1961 · as Vaidehi
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946 · as Madame Noge
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955 · as Masao's mother