Haruko Sugimura
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Jan 7, 1909 (117 years old)
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
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
| 1995 | A Last NoteYoko Morimoto | |
| 1995 | The Written FaceSelf | |
| 1992 | The Strange Tale of OyukiKafu's Mother | |
| 1988 | Sakura-tai Chiru | |
| 1987 | An Early Autumn | |
| 1983 | I Lived, But...Self | |
| 1975 | The FossilItsuki's stepmother | |
| 1974 | Akumyo: Notorious Dragon | |
| 1973 | The Petrified Forest | |
| 1973 | 雪の華 | |
| 1972 | FossilMother-in-Law | |
| 1971 | Onna no hanamichi | |
| 1970 | Second generation | |
| 1969 | Only Child | |
| 1968 | Slave Factory | |
| 1967 | The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka | |
| 1966 | The DaphneAki Ueno (the four sisters' mother) | |
| 1965 | Red BeardKin, the madam | |
| 1965 | KwaidanMadame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") | |
| 1965 | Rokujō yukiyama tsumugiIne's Mother | |
| 1965 | Samurai AssassinTsuru | |
| 1965 | With Beauty and SorrowOtoko's Mother | |
| 1964 | The Scent of IncenseTaromaru | |
| 1964 | Night ScandalHatsu Mimura | |
| 1963 | Jidanya | |
| 1963 | Youth After SchoolAyako | |
| 1963 | MotherYoshie | |
| 1963 | The Navy | |
| 1962 | Till Tomorrow Is | |
| 1962 | Musume to watashi | |
| 1962 | Their Legacy | |
| 1962 | Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi | |
| 1962 | The Broken CommandmentSchool master's wife | |
| 1962 | The Wiser AgeAki | |
| 1962 | An Autumn AfternoonTomoko Sakuma | |
| 1961 | The End of SummerKatou Shige | |
| 1961 | The Conspirator | |
| 1961 | The Gambler's CodeOroku | |
| 1961 | The Rokumeikan | |
| 1961 | BuddhaVaidehi | |
| 1960 | Daughters, Wives and a MotherKayo Tani | |
| 1960 | Deep River Melody | |
| 1960 | The Woman Who Touched LegsPickpocket Haruko | |
| 1960 | Goodbye to GloryFukunaga's mother Yuki | |
| 1960 | Runway to HellOkuma | |
| 1959 | Good MorningKikue Haraguchi | |
| 1959 | Floating WeedsOyoshi | |
| 1959 | The Rokumeikan | |
| 1959 | The Three TreasuresNarrator | |
| 1959 | Beauty the EnemyFusa Yoshino | |
| 1958 | Summer CloudsMother | |
| 1958 | The Spell of the Hidden GoldSonoe | |
| 1958 | Flower's YearningIkegami Rie | |
| 1957 | Tokyo TwilightShigeko Takeuchi | |
| 1957 | Hadaka no Machi | |
| 1957 | The Crowded TrainOtome, the mother | |
| 1956 | Early SpringTamako Tamura | |
| 1956 | FlowingSomeka | |
| 1956 | Samurai of the Great Earth | |
| 1955 | Princess Yang Kwei-feiPrincess Yen-chun | |
| 1955 | She Was Like a Wild ChrysanthemumMasao's mother | |
| 1955 | The Romance of Yushima | |
| 1955 | Policeman's DiaryMoyo Sugita | |
| 1955 | Life of Geisha | |
| 1954 | Late ChrysanthemumsKin | |
| 1954 | The Story of Shunkin | |
| 1954 | The Glorious Days | |
| 1953 | Tokyo StoryShige Kaneko | |
| 1953 | ReminiscenceChikako | |
| 1953 | Sunflower Girl | |
| 1953 | An Inlet of Muddy Water | |
| 1952 | Kin no tamago: Golden Girl | |
| 1952 | Forbidden Path | |
| 1952 | The Wind Blows Twice | |
| 1951 | RepastMatsu Murata | |
| 1951 | Early SummerTami Yabe | |
| 1951 | 愛情の旋風 | |
| 1951 | Freedom School | |
| 1951 | Fireworks Over the SeaKono Kujirai | |
| 1951 | Beauty of Life | |
| 1950 | Four Seasons of WomenOsone | |
| 1950 | Listen to the Voices of the Sea | |
| 1950 | Till We Meet AgainSuga Ono | |
| 1950 | The Rainbow-Colored FlowerKoyabu | |
| 1949 | Late SpringMasa Taguchi | |
| 1949 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1Oshin | |
| 1949 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2Oshin | |
| 1948 | G-Men of Japan | |
| 1948 | TemptationTokie | |
| 1948 | Great XTaka | |
| 1948 | Children Hand in Hand | |
| 1947 | Spring Awakens | |
| 1947 | Three-Fingered Detective | |
| 1946 | No Regrets for Our YouthMadame Noge | |
| 1946 | Morning for the Osone FamilyFusako Osone | |
| 1946 | A Descendant of Urashima Taro | |
| 1946 | Kigeki wa owarinu | |
| 1945 | Umi no tora | |
| 1945 | Kanchō umi no bara | |
| 1945 | Umi o yobu koe | |
| 1944 | ArmySetsu | |
| 1942 | The Day England Falls | |
| 1941 | White Heron | |
| 1941 | A Diary of Our Love | |
| 1941 | The Tale of Jiro | |
| 1940 | Spring on Leper's Island | |
| 1940 | Wedding Day | |
| 1940 | Ōhinata-mura | |
| 1938 | NightingaleMidwife Yae | |
| 1937 | The Lights of AsakusaMarieda Matsushima | |
| 1932 | Namiko |