Haruko Sugimura

Actor Jan 7 (died age 88) Hiroshima, Japan 1932–1995 (63 year career)

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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 Mizog…

Known For

Film

Tokyo Story

Shige Kaneko

Film

Late Spring

Masa Taguchi

Film

Red Beard

Kin, the madam

Film

Kwaidan

Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Film

An Autumn Afternoon

Tomoko Sakuma

Film

Good Morning

Kikue Haraguchi

Film

Early Summer

Tami Yabe

Film

Floating Weeds

Oyoshi

Filmography

Acting (111)

Movies (107)

A Last Note

1995

as Yoko Morimoto

7.0

The Written Face

1995

as Self

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

as Kafu's Mother

Sakura-tai Chiru

I Lived, But...

as Self

The Fossil

as Itsuki's stepmother

6.8

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

The Petrified Forest

Onna no hanamichi

Only Child

Dorei kōjō

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1967

6.2

The Daphne

1966

as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

Kwaidan

1965

as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

7.7

Red Beard

1965

as Kin, the madam

8.1

With Beauty and Sorrow

as Otoko's Mother

Samurai Assassin

as Tsuru

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

1965

as Ine's Mother

The Scent of Incense

1964

as Taromaru

7.2

Night Scandal

1964

as Hatsu Mimura

Jidanya

1963

The Navy

1963

Youth After School

1963

as Ayako

Mother

as Yoshie

An Autumn Afternoon

as Tomoko Sakuma

As Long as There's Tomorrow

Musume to watashi

The Wiser Age

as Aki

Their Legacy

The Broken Commandment

1962

as School master's wife

6.6

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

The End of Summer

as Katou Shige

The Gambler's Code

as Oroku

The Rokumeikan

The Conspirator

Buddha

as Vaidehi

Runway to Hell

1960

as Okuma

6.5

The Woman Who Touched Legs

1960

as Pickpocket Haruko

6.0

Goodbye to Glory

1960

as Fukunaga's mother Yuki

Deep River Melody

1960

6.0

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

as Kayo Tani

Good Morning

as Kikue Haraguchi

Floating Weeds

as Oyoshi

Beauty the Enemy

as Fusa Yoshino

The Rokumeikan

1959

The Three Treasures

1959

as Narrator

5.3

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

as Sonoe

Summer Clouds

as Mother

Flower's Yearning

as Ikegami Rie

Tokyo Twilight

as Shigeko Takeuchi

The Crowded Train

as Otome, the mother

Hadaka no Machi

Early Spring

as Tamako Tamura

Samurai of the Great Earth

1956

Flowing

1956

as Someka

7.1

The Romance of Yushima

1955

6.0

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

1955

as Princess Yen-chun

6.7

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

as Masao's mother

Life of Geisha

Policeman's Diary

as Moyo Sugita

The Glorious Days

The Story of Shunkin

Late Chrysanthemums

as Kin

Tokyo Story

as Shige Kaneko

Sunflower Girl

An Inlet of Muddy Water

1953

6.1

Reminiscence

1953

as Chikako

The Wind Blows Twice

1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1952

Forbidden Path

1952

Beauty of Life

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

as Kono Kujirai

愛情の旋風

Freedom School

Early Summer

as Tami Yabe

Repast

as Matsu Murata

Four Seasons of Women

1950

as Osone

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

1950

as Koyabu

1.0

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

Till We Meet Again

as Suga Ono

Late Spring

as Masa Taguchi

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

1949

as Oshin

6.5

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

1949

as Oshin

6.5

Great X

1948

as Taka

Children Hand in Hand

G-Men of Japan

Temptation

as Tokie

Spring Awakens

Three-Fingered Detective

1947

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

as Madame Noge

6.9

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

1946

6.0

Morning for the Osone Family

as Fusako Osone

Kigeki wa owarinu

Kanchō umi no bara

Umi no tora

Umi o yobu koe

Army

as Setsu

The Day England Falls

White Heron

A Diary of Our Love

Tale of Jiro

Spring on Leper's Island

Wedding Day

Ōhinata-mura

Nightingale

as Midwife Yae

The Lights of Asakusa

1937

as Marieda Matsushima

5.6

Namiko

1932

Television (4)

An Early Autumn

1987

雪の華

1973

Fossil

1972

as Mother-in-Law

Second generation

1970