Haruko Sugimura
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Acting Credits
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 Mizog...
Known For
Filmography
A Last Note
1995
as Yoko Morimoto
The Written Face
1995
as Self
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
as Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
An Early Autumn
1987
I Lived, But...
1983
as Self
The Fossil
1975
as Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Petrified Forest
1973
雪の華
1973
Fossil
1972
as Mother-in-Law
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Second generation
1970
Only Child
1969
Slave Factory
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Daphne
1966
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
1965
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
as Ine's Mother
Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuru
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
as Otoko's Mother
The Scent of Incense
1964
as Taromaru
Night Scandal
1964
as Hatsu Mimura
Jidanya
1963
Youth After School
1963
as Ayako
Mother
1963
as Yoshie
The Navy
1963
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Musume to watashi
1962
Their Legacy
1962
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
The Broken Commandment
1962
as School master's wife
The Wiser Age
1962
as Aki
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Tomoko Sakuma
The End of Summer
1961
as Katou Shige
The Conspirator
1961
The Gambler's Code
1961
as Oroku
The Rokumeikan
1961
Buddha
1961
as Vaidehi
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
as Kayo Tani
Deep River Melody
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
as Pickpocket Haruko
Goodbye to Glory
1960
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Runway to Hell
1960
as Okuma
Banana
1960
Good Morning
1959
as Kikue Haraguchi
Floating Weeds
1959
as Oyoshi
The Rokumeikan
1959
The Three Treasures
1959
as Narrator
Beauty the Enemy
1959
as Fusa Yoshino
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
as Osai
Summer Clouds
1958
as Mother
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
as Sonoe
Flower's Yearning
1958
as Ikegami Rie
Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Shigeko Takeuchi
Hadaka no Machi
1957
The Crowded Train
1957
as Otome, the mother
Early Spring
1956
as Tamako Tamura
Flowing
1956
as Someka
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
as Princess Yen-chun
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
as Masao's mother
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Policeman's Diary
1955
as Moyo Sugita
Life of Geisha
1955
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
as Kin
The Story of Shunkin
1954
The Glorious Days
1954
Geisha Konatsu
1954
as Raku Kamioka
Tokyo Story
1953
as Shige Kaneko
Reminiscence
1953
as Chikako
Sunflower Girl
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Koshō musuko
1953
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Forbidden Path
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
as Oritsu
A Meeting of Youths
1952
as Tamiyo
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
Repast
1951
as Matsu Murata
Early Summer
1951
as Tami Yabe
愛情の旋風
1951
Freedom School
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
as Kono Kujirai
Beauty of Life
1951
Four Seasons of Women
1950
as Osone
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Till We Meet Again
1950
as Suga Ono
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
as Koyabu
Late Spring
1949
as Masa Taguchi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
as Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
as Oshin
G-Men of Japan
1948
Temptation
1948
as Tokie
Great X
1948
as Taka
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Black Cloud Road
1948
Spring Awakens
1947
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
as Madame Noge
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
as Fusako Osone
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
Umi no tora
1945
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Army
1944
as Setsu
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
The Day England Falls
1942
Yamasandō
1942
White Heron
1941
A Diary of Our Love
1941
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Wedding Day
1940
Ōhinata-mura
1940
Nightingale
1938
as Midwife Yae
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
as Marieda Matsushima
Namiko
1932