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

Kwaidan

Red Beard

An Early Autumn

Late Spring

Good Morning

An Autumn Afternoon

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

All Movies (114)

• The Written Face1995 · as Self
• A Last Note1995 · as Yoko Morimoto
• The Strange Tale of Oyuki1992 · as Kafu's Mother
• Sakura-tai Chiru1988
• I Lived, But...1983 · as Self
• The Fossil1975 · as Itsuki's stepmother
• Akumyo: Notorious Dragon1974
• The Petrified Forest1973
• Onna no hanamichi1971
• Only Child1969
• Slave Factory1968
• The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka1967
• The Daphne1966 · as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
• Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi1965 · as Ine's Mother
• Red Beard1965 · as Kin, the madam
• With Beauty and Sorrow1965 · as Otoko's Mother
• Kwaidan1965 · as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
• Samurai Assassin1965 · as Tsuru
• Night Scandal1964 · as Hatsu Mimura
• The Scent of Incense1964 · as Taromaru
• Mother1963 · as Yoshie
• Jidanya1963
• The Navy1963
• Youth After School1963 · as Ayako
• An Autumn Afternoon1962 · as Tomoko Sakuma
• Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi1962
• The Broken Commandment1962 · as School master's wife
• Musume to watashi1962
• Till Tomorrow Is1962
• The Wiser Age1962 · as Aki
• Their Legacy1962
• The Rokumeikan1961
• The Conspirator1961
• Buddha1961 · as Vaidehi
• The End of Summer1961 · as Katou Shige
• The Gambler's Code1961 · as Oroku
• Deep River Melody1960
• The Woman Who Touched Legs1960 · as Pickpocket Haruko
• Daughters, Wives and a Mother1960 · as Kayo Tani
• Runway to Hell1960 · as Okuma
• Banana1960
• Goodbye to Glory1960 · as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
• Floating Weeds1959 · as Oyoshi
• The Three Treasures1959 · as Narrator
• Beauty the Enemy1959 · as Fusa Yoshino
• The Rokumeikan1959
• Good Morning1959 · as Kikue Haraguchi
• The Spell of the Hidden Gold1958 · as Sonoe
• Summer Clouds1958 · as Mother
• Flower's Yearning1958 · as Ikegami Rie
• Hadaka no Machi1957
• Tokyo Twilight1957 · as Shigeko Takeuchi
• The Crowded Train1957 · as Otome, the mother
• Flowing1956 · as Someka
• Early Spring1956 · as Tamako Tamura
• Samurai of the Great Earth1956
• She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum1955 · as Masao's mother
• The Romance of Yushima1955
• Princess Yang Kwei-fei1955 · as Princess Yen-chun
• Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made1955
• Policeman's Diary1955 · as Moyo Sugita
• Life of Geisha1955
• The Story of Shunkin1954
• Late Chrysanthemums1954 · as Kin
• The Glorious Days1954
• Geisha Konatsu1954 · as Raku Kamioka
• An Inlet of Muddy Water1953
• Tokyo Story1953 · as Shige Kaneko
• Koshō musuko1953
• Sunflower Girl1953
• Reminiscence1953 · as Chikako
• Toki no teizo: Sōshūban1952
• Forbidden Path1952
• Kin no tamago: Golden Girl1952
• The Wind Blows Twice1952
• A Meeting of Youths1952 · as Tamiyo
• Beauty of Life1951
• Repast1951 · as Matsu Murata
• Fireworks Over the Sea1951 · as Kono Kujirai
• Early Summer1951 · as Tami Yabe
• Freedom School1951
• 愛情の旋風1951
• The Rainbow-Colored Flower1950 · as Koyabu
• Listen to the Voices of the Sea1950
• Till We Meet Again1950 · as Suga Ono
• Four Seasons of Women1950 · as Osone
• Late Spring1949 · as Masa Taguchi
• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 21949 · as Oshin
• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 11949 · as Oshin
• G-Men of Japan1948
• Great X1948 · as Taka
• Temptation1948 · as Tokie
• Children Hand in Hand1948
• Three-Fingered Detective1947
• Spring Awakens1947
• No Regrets for Our Youth1946 · as Madame Noge
• A Descendant of Urashima Taro1946
• Morning for the Osone Family1946 · as Fusako Osone
• Kigeki wa owarinu1946
• Umi o yobu koe1945
• Kanchō umi no bara1945
• Umi no tora1945
• Army1944 · as Setsu
• The Day England Falls1942
• Yamasandō1942
• The Tale of Jiro1941
• A Diary of Our Love1941
• White Heron1941
• Ōhinata-mura1940
• Spring on Leper's Island1940
• Wedding Day1940
• Nightingale1938 · as Midwife Yae
• The Lights of Asakusa1937 · as Marieda Matsushima
• Namiko1932

All TV Shows (4)

• An Early Autumn1987
• 雪の華1973
• Fossil1972 · as Mother-in-Law
• Second generation1970