Haruko Sugimura

Personal Info

Birthday

January 7, 1909

Day of Death

1997-04-04

(88 years old)

Place of Birth

Hiroshima, Japan

Also Known As

Харуко Сугимура

هاروکو سوگیمورا

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.

Known For

Tokyo Story

Floating Weeds

Early Spring

Kwaidan

Red Beard

Good Morning

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

Late Spring

Filmography

1995
The Written Face
as Self
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's Mother
1983
I Lived, But...
as Self
1975
The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmother
1966
The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's Mother
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
1964
Night Scandal
as Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense
as Taromaru
1963
Mother
as Yoshie
Youth After School
as Ayako
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
The Broken Commandment
as School master's wife
The Wiser Age
as Aki
1961
Buddha
as Vaidehi
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
The Gambler's Code
as Oroku
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket Haruko
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
Runway to Hell
as Okuma
Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1959
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa Yoshino
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
as Sonoe
Summer Clouds
as Mother
1957
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
The Crowded Train
as Otome, the mother
1956
Flowing
as Someka
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
1955
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
Policeman's Diary
as Moyo Sugita
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
1953
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
Reminiscence
as Chikako
1951
Repast
as Matsu Murata
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono Kujirai
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Koyabu
Till We Meet Again
as Suga Ono
Four Seasons of Women
as Osone
1949
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oshin
1948
Great X
as Taka
Temptation
as Tokie
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako Osone
1944
Army
as Setsu
1938
Nightingale
as Midwife Yae
1937
The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda Matsushima