Haruko Sugimura

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Acting

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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

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