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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-01-07
Place of birth
Hiroshima, Japan
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Cast
The Scent of Incense
1964
7.20
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
0.00
The Day England Falls
1942
0.00
Red Beard
1965
8.10
Jidanya
1963
0.00
Late Spring
1949
8.00
Early Spring
1956
7.50
Kwaidan
1965
7.70
G-Men of Japan
1948
0.00
Youth After School
1963
0.00
The End of Summer
1961
7.48
Good Morning
1959
7.70
As Long as There's Tomorrow
1962
0.00
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
7.30
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
6.91
Four Seasons of Women
1950
0.00
Musume to watashi
1962
0.00
Repast
1951
7.57
Flowing
1956
7.18
Their Legacy
1962
0.00
Floating Weeds
1959
7.50
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
6.22
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
0.00
Tokyo Story
1953
8.20
Early Summer
1951
7.85
Tokyo Twilight
1957
7.70
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
6.68
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
0.00
Night Scandal
1964
0.00
Samurai Assassin
1965
7.30
A Last Note
1995
7.00
The Broken Commandment
1962
6.60
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
6.70
Summer Clouds
1958
7.50
Only Child
1969
0.00
The Petrified Forest
1973
6.00
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
6.50
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
6.50
White Heron
1941
0.00
A Diary of Our Love
1941
0.00
Spring Awakens
1947
6.80
The Story of Shunkin
1954
5.00
The Romance of Yushima
1955
6.00
Umi no tora
1945
0.00
The Conspirator
1961
6.40
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
0.00
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
5.60
愛情の旋風
1951
0.00
Dorei kōjō
1968
0.00
Army
1944
6.70
The Gambler's Code
1961
6.50
Freedom School
1951
0.00
Hadaka no Machi
1957
0.00
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
6.00
Temptation
1948
6.00
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
0.00
The Written Face
1995
0.00
The Crowded Train
1957
6.80
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
7.10
Umi o yobu koe
1945
0.00
The Rokumeikan
1959
0.00
The Rokumeikan
1961
0.00
Buddha
1961
0.00
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
5.00
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
4.70
Policeman's Diary
1955
6.50
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
7.00
Till We Meet Again
1950
6.30
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
1.00
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
8.00
Deep River Melody
1960
6.00
Life of Geisha
1955
0.00
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
6.00
The Wiser Age
1962
7.30
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
6.00
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
6.30
Great X
1948
0.00
Goodbye to Glory
1960
0.00
I Lived, But...
1983
6.50
Mother
1963
6.80
Runway to Hell
1960
6.50
Reminiscence
1953
0.00
Children Hand in Hand
1948
0.00
The Three Treasures
1959
5.31
The Fossil
1975
6.80
Beauty the Enemy
1959
0.00
The Daphne
1966
0.00
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
7.86
Wedding Day
1940
0.00
The Navy
1963
0.00
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
5.70
Forbidden Path
1952
0.00
Sunflower Girl
1953
0.00
Namiko
1932
0.00
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
0.00
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
5.53
Onna no hanamichi
1971
0.00
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
6.10
Nightingale
1938
0.00
The Glorious Days
1954
0.00
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
0.00
Beauty of Life
1951
0.00
Tale of Jiro
1941
0.00
Ōhinata-mura
1940
0.00
Flower's Yearning
1958
0.00