Haruko Sugimura
Acting
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.
Born: January 7, 1909
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Yoko Morimoto
as Kafu's Mother
as Self
as Itsuki's stepmother
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
as Ine's Mother
as Kin, the madam
as Otoko's Mother
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
as Tsuru
as Hatsu Mimura
as Taromaru
as Yoshie
as Ayako
as Tomoko Sakuma
as School master's wife
as Aki
as Vaidehi
as Katou Shige
as Oroku
as Pickpocket Haruko
as Kayo Tani
as Okuma
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
as Oyoshi
as Narrator
as Fusa Yoshino
as Kikue Haraguchi
as Mother
as Ikegami Rie
as Shigeko Takeuchi
as Otome, the mother
as Someka
as Tamako Tamura
as Masao's mother
as Princess Yen-chun
as Moyo Sugita
as Kin
as Shige Kaneko
as Chikako
as Matsu Murata
as Kono Kujirai
as Tami Yabe
as Koyabu
as Suga Ono
as Osone
as Masa Taguchi
as Oshin
as Oshin
as Taka
as Tokie
as Madame Noge
as Fusako Osone
as Setsu
as Midwife Yae
as Marieda Matsushima