
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

Late Spring
1949
as Masa Taguchi

Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam

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 Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
as Kafu's Mother

Summer Clouds
1958
as Mother

Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuru

Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Shigeko Takeuchi

Early Summer
1951
as Tami Yabe

Floating Weeds
1959
as Oyoshi

No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
as Madame Noge

The Three Treasures
1959
as Narrator

The End of Summer
1961
as Katou Shige

The Gambler's Code
1961
as Oroku

Buddha
1961
as Vaidehi

Army
1944
as Setsu

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
as Kayo Tani

An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953

With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
as Otoko's Mother

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
as Oshin

Early Spring
1956
as Tamako Tamura

Repast
1951
as Matsu Murata

The Scent of Incense
1964
as Taromaru

A Last Note
1995
as Yoko Morimoto

The Lights of Asakusa
1937
as Marieda Matsushima

Samurai of the Great Earth
1956

Late Chrysanthemums
1954
as Kin

Children Hand in Hand
1948

Flowing
1956
as Someka

Hadaka no Machi
1957

The Broken Commandment
1962
as School master's wife

Three-Fingered Detective
1947

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

The Wiser Age
1962
as Aki

Till Tomorrow Is
1962

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946

The Fossil
1975
as Itsuki's stepmother

G-Men of Japan
1948

Till We Meet Again
1950
as Suga Ono

Beauty the Enemy
1959
as Fusa Yoshino

Mother
1963
as Yoshie
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
as Sonoe

Great X
1948
as Taka

Forbidden Path
1952

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974

The Crowded Train
1957
as Otome, the mother

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
as Oshin

The Conspirator
1961

Four Seasons of Women
1950
as Osone

I Lived, But...
1983
as Self

The Navy
1963

Night Scandal
1964
as Hatsu Mimura

Their Legacy
1962

Morning for the Osone Family
1946
as Fusako Osone

Flower's Yearning
1958
as Ikegami Rie

The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
as Pickpocket Haruko

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967

The Petrified Forest
1973

Goodbye to Glory
1960
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki

The Story of Shunkin
1954

Musume to watashi
1962

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

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988

Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
as Kono Kujirai

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
as Koyabu

Spring Awakens
1947

Youth After School
1963
as Ayako

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950

Runway to Hell
1960
as Okuma

The Romance of Yushima
1955

Sunflower Girl
1953

Reminiscence
1953
as Chikako

Beauty of Life
1951
愛情の旋風
1951

Wedding Day
1940

Freedom School
1951

Onna no hanamichi
1971

The Tale of Jiro
1941

Slave Factory
1968

Policeman's Diary
1955
as Moyo Sugita

Nightingale
1938
as Midwife Yae

Spring on Leper's Island
1940

Only Child
1969

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
as Ine's Mother

Temptation
1948
as Tokie

The Written Face
1995
as Self

The Glorious Days
1954
The Rokumeikan
1961

White Heron
1941

The Wind Blows Twice
1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

Deep River Melody
1960
Umi no tora
1945
Ōhinata-mura
1940

The Day England Falls
1942

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
Umi o yobu koe
1945
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Life of Geisha
1955

A Diary of Our Love
1941

Namiko
1932

Jidanya
1963

Banana
1960

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955

Geisha Konatsu
1954
as Raku Kamioka

A Meeting of Youths
1952
as Tamiyo
The Rokumeikan
1959
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
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
- Late Spring (1949) — as Masa Taguchi
- Red Beard (1965) — as Kin, the madam
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) — as Princess Yen-chun
- Kwaidan (1965) — as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
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