
Haruko Sugimura
Known for Acting · 115 credits
- Born
- 1909-01-06
- Died
- 1997-04-04
- Place of birth
- Hiroshima, Japon
- Also known as
- Харуко Сугимура · هاروکو سوگیمورا · 杉村春子
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
TV Shows (4)
Movies (111)

Tokyo Story
1953
as Shige Kaneko

Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam

Late Spring
1949
as Masa Taguchi

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
as Princess Yen-chun

Kwaidan
1965
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Good Morning
1959
as Kikue Haraguchi

An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Tomoko Sakuma

The Gambler's Code
1961
as Oroku

Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Shigeko Takeuchi

Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuru

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
as Kafu's Mother

Floating Weeds
1959
as Oyoshi

The Three Treasures
1959
as Narrator

Summer Clouds
1958
as Mother

Early Summer
1951
as Tami Yabe

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
as Kayo Tani

Late Chrysanthemums
1954
as Kin

The End of Summer
1961
as Katou Shige

Buddha
1961
as Vaidehi

You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
as Masao's mother

No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
as Madame Noge

An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953

Early Spring
1956
as Tamako Tamura

Army
1944
as Setsu

Flowing
1956
as Someka

With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
as Otoko's Mother

Repast
1951
as Matsu Murata

Samurai of the Great Earth
1956

The Scent of Incense
1964
as Taromaru

Great X
1948
as Taka
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
as Sonoe

The Broken Commandment
1962
as School master's wife

Flower's Yearning
1958
as Ikegami Rie

Forbidden Path
1952

The Lights of Asakusa
1937
as Marieda Matsushima

Children Hand in Hand
1948

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
as Oshin

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
as Oshin

The Crowded Train
1957
as Otome, the mother

Mother
1963
as Yoshie

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988

G-Men of Japan
1948

Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
as Kono Kujirai

Hadaka no Machi
1957

Till We Meet Again
1950
as Suga Ono

The Story of Shunkin
1954

The Daphne
1966
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

I Lived, But...
1983
as Self

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974

The Fossil
1975
as Itsuki's stepmother

Sunflower Girl
1953

Reminiscence
1953
as Chikako

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967

Till Tomorrow Is
1962

The Wiser Age
1962
as Aki

Musume to watashi
1962

Their Legacy
1962

Spring Awakens
1947

The Glorious Days
1954

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946

The Petrified Forest
1973

Night Scandal
1964
as Hatsu Mimura

Policeman's Diary
1955
as Moyo Sugita

A Last Note
1995
as Yoko Morimoto

Freedom School
1951

Slave Factory
1968

The Romance of Yushima
1955

The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
as Pickpocket Haruko

The Written Face
1995
as Self

The Conspirator
1961

Three-Fingered Detective
1947

The Navy
1963

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
as Koyabu

Goodbye to Glory
1960
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki

Youth After School
1963
as Ayako

Runway to Hell
1960
as Okuma

Beauty the Enemy
1959
as Fusa Yoshino

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950

Beauty of Life
1951

Nightingale
1938
as Midwife Yae

White Heron
1941
愛情の旋風
1951

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
as Ine's Mother

Onna no hanamichi
1971

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

Deep River Melody
1960

Four Seasons of Women
1950
as Osone
Umi no tora
1945

Only Child
1969

The Wind Blows Twice
1952

Morning for the Osone Family
1946
as Fusako Osone

The Day England Falls
1942

The Tale of Jiro
1941

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962

Temptation
1948
as Tokie
The Rokumeikan
1961

Wedding Day
1940
Ōhinata-mura
1940

Namiko
1932

Spring on Leper's Island
1940
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Life of Geisha
1955
The Rokumeikan
1959

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955

A Diary of Our Love
1941

Jidanya
1963

Banana
1960

Geisha Konatsu
1954
as Raku Kamioka
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946

A Meeting of Youths
1952
as Tamiyo
About Haruko Sugimura
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 realist… With 115 credits spanning from 1932 to 1995, Haruko Sugimura has appeared in 111 films and 4 TV shows.
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Most Popular Haruko Sugimura Movies
- Tokyo Story (1953) — as Shige Kaneko
- Red Beard (1965) — as Kin, the madam
- Late Spring (1949) — as Masa Taguchi
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) — as Princess Yen-chun
- Kwaidan (1965) — as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
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