Haruko Sugimura
Known For
Acting
Born
1909-01-07 in Hiroshima, Japan
Died
1997-04-04
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.
Most Known For
G-Men of Japan
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
Second generation
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
Samurai of the Great Earth
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
雪の華
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
Till We Meet Again
as Suga Ono