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

• Red Beard as Kin, the madam
• Late Spring as Masa Taguchi
• Kwaidan as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
• Good Morning as Kikue Haraguchi
• Tokyo Story as Shige Kaneko
• Early Summer as Tami Yabe
• An Autumn Afternoon as Tomoko Sakuma
• The Scent of Incense as Taromaru
• Early Spring as Tamako Tamura
• The End of Summer as Katou Shige