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