Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Born January 6, 1909 · Hiroshima, Japan
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 Yas…
Known For · 40 titles
Tokyo Story
Red Beard
Late Spring
Kwaidan
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Children Hand in Hand
Their Legacy
Hadaka no Machi
An Autumn Afternoon
Good Morning
Runway to Hell
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
Fossil
Floating Weeds
Tokyo Twilight
The Written Face
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
Samurai Assassin
Early Spring
Early Summer
Yamasandō
No Regrets for Our Youth
The End of Summer
Second generation
Reminiscence
An Early Autumn
Black Cloud Road
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Banana
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Night Scandal
The Fossil
G-Men of Japan
Buddha
Flowing
Army
The Three Treasures
The Crowded Train
Summer Clouds