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