Haruko Sugimura

Known for ActingBorn 1909-01-06Died 1997-04-04Hiroshima, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Daphne

Musume to watashi

Their Legacy

Buddha

Life of Geisha

Sunflower Girl

Beauty of Life

Kanchō umi no bara

The Day England Falls

Nightingale

Slave Factory

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

White Heron

The Tale of Jiro

Ōhinata-mura

The Written Face

Red Beard

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

Night Scandal

Tokyo Story

Till Tomorrow Is

The Romance of Yushima

An Autumn Afternoon

Forbidden Path

Late Spring

Temptation

Kwaidan

Early Summer

Good Morning

Tokyo Twilight

Summer Clouds

The End of Summer

Repast

Beauty the Enemy

Floating Weeds

Early Spring

A Last Note

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

Samurai Assassin

The Fossil

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

The Scent of Incense

The Wiser Age

The Gambler's Code

Flowing

Late Chrysanthemums

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon