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 realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
Known for
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
The Petrified Forest
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
Wedding Day
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
Army
Setsu
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
愛情の旋風
Freedom School
The Conspirator
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
I Lived, But...
Self
White Heron
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
Buddha
Vaidehi
Namiko
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Story of Shunkin
The Navy
Onna no hanamichi
Kanchō umi no bara
The Three Treasures
Narrator
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
The Romance of Yushima
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
Sunflower Girl
Spring Awakens
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
Samurai of the Great Earth
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
The Wind Blows Twice
The Glorious Days
Dorei kōjō
The Rokumeikan
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Spring on Leper's Island
Umi o yobu koe
Forbidden Path
Life of Geisha
Musume to watashi
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
The Tale of Jiro
Sakura-tai Chiru
Great X
Taka
The Day England Falls
Only Child
Beauty of Life
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
Repast
Matsu Murata
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Youth After School
Ayako
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Three-Fingered Detective
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
Summer Clouds
Mother
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
The Rokumeikan
Flowing
Someka
Temptation
Tokie
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
A Diary of Our Love
The Wiser Age
Aki
Ōhinata-mura
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
Deep River Melody
Umi no tora
Jidanya
Second generation
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
An Early Autumn
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
G-Men of Japan
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie
Mother
Yoshie
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
雪の華
Children Hand in Hand
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe
The Written Face
Self
Hadaka no Machi
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
Reminiscence
Chikako
Their Legacy
Fossil
Mother-in-Law