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 realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
115 acting credits
Acting · 115
Tokyo Story
1953
Red Beard
1965
Good Morning
1959
Kwaidan
1965
Late Spring
1949
An Early Autumn
1987
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Second generation
1970
Early Summer
1951
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Samurai Assassin
1965
Floating Weeds
1959
The End of Summer
1961
The Three Treasures
1959
Flowing
1956
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
Early Spring
1956
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Repast
1951
Buddha
1961
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
The Petrified Forest
1973
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
The Fossil
1975
Summer Clouds
1958
The Crowded Train
1957
The Wiser Age
1962
Spring Awakens
1947
I Lived, But...
1983
Fossil
1972
The Scent of Incense
1964
Army
1944
Slave Factory
1968
Sunflower Girl
1953
The Written Face
1995
Forbidden Path
1952
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
A Last Note
1995
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Beauty the Enemy
1959
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
The Conspirator
1961
The Navy
1963
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
Till We Meet Again
1950
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Youth After School
1963
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
The Broken Commandment
1962
The Gambler's Code
1961
Goodbye to Glory
1960
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
雪の華
1973
Freedom School
1951
Onna no hanamichi
1971
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Four Seasons of Women
1950
Wedding Day
1940
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
The Romance of Yushima
1955
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Deep River Melody
1960
Beauty of Life
1951
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Policeman's Diary
1955
愛情の旋風
1951
White Heron
1941
Great X
1948
The Daphne
1966
The Glorious Days
1954
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
Musume to watashi
1962
Only Child
1969
G-Men of Japan
1948
Mother
1963
Jidanya
1963
Temptation
1948
The Day England Falls
1942
Namiko
1932
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
The Rokumeikan
1961
Life of Geisha
1955
Runway to Hell
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Ōhinata-mura
1940
The Rokumeikan
1959
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Their Legacy
1962
Flower's Yearning
1958
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Reminiscence
1953
The Tale of Jiro
1941
Umi no tora
1945
A Diary of Our Love
1941
Night Scandal
1964
Nightingale
1938
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Geisha Konatsu
1954
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Banana
1960