Haruko Sugimura

Biography

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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.

Filmografi

Red Beard1965 · Kin, the madamTokyo Story1953 · Shige KanekoLate Spring1949 · Masa TaguchiKwaidan1965 · Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")The End of Summer1961 · Katou ShigeAn Autumn Afternoon1962 · Tomoko SakumaRepast1951 · Matsu MurataGood Morning1959 · Kikue HaraguchiFloating Weeds1959 · OyoshiMuntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia1953 · Tokyo Twilight1957 · Shigeko TakeuchiToki no teizo: Sōshūban1952 · Reminiscence1953 · ChikakoNight Scandal1964 · Hatsu MimuraThe Daphne1966 · Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)Yonjū-hassai no teikō1956 · Mother1963 · YoshieThe Tears of Geisha Konatsu1955 · Early Summer1951 · Tami YabeHadaka no Machi1957 · Koshō musuko1953 · Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made1955 · The Spell of the Hidden Gold1958 · SonoeThe Written Face1995 · Self