Haruko Sugimura

Acting · Born 1909-01-07 in Hiroshima, Japan

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 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.

Filmography

• The Scent of Incense as Taromaru
• Red Beard as Kin, the madam
• Late Spring as Masa Taguchi
• Early Spring as Tamako Tamura
• Kwaidan as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
• The End of Summer as Katou Shige
• Good Morning as Kikue Haraguchi
• Late Chrysanthemums as Kin
• No Regrets for Our Youth as Madame Noge
• Repast as Matsu Murata