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.

Filmography (111 Appearances)

The Written Face

1995

A Last Note

1995

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

1992

Sakura-tai Chiru

1988

An Early Autumn

1987

I Lived, But...

1983

The Fossil

1975

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

1974

雪の華

1973

The Petrified Forest

1973

Fossil

1972

Onna no hanamichi

1971

Second generation

1970

Only Child

1969

Slave Factory

1968

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1967

The Daphne

1966

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

1965

Red Beard

1965

With Beauty and Sorrow

1965

Kwaidan

1965

Samurai Assassin

1965

Night Scandal

1964

The Scent of Incense

1964

Mother

1963

Jidanya

1963

The Navy

1963

Youth After School

1963

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

1962

The Broken Commandment

1962

Musume to watashi

1962

Till Tomorrow Is

1962

The Wiser Age

1962

Their Legacy

1962

The Rokumeikan

1961

The Conspirator

1961

Buddha

1961

The End of Summer

1961

The Gambler's Code

1961

Deep River Melody

1960

The Woman Who Touched Legs

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960

Runway to Hell

1960

Goodbye to Glory

1960

Floating Weeds

1959

The Three Treasures

1959

Beauty the Enemy

1959

The Rokumeikan

1959

Good Morning

1959

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

1958

Summer Clouds

1958

Flower's Yearning

1958

Hadaka no Machi

1957

Tokyo Twilight

1957

The Crowded Train

1957

Flowing

1956

Samurai of the Great Earth

1956

Early Spring

1956

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1955

The Romance of Yushima

1955

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

1955

Policeman's Diary

1955

Life of Geisha

1955

The Story of Shunkin

1954

Late Chrysanthemums

1954

The Glorious Days

1954

An Inlet of Muddy Water

1953

Tokyo Story

1953

Sunflower Girl

1953

Reminiscence

1953

Forbidden Path

1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1952

The Wind Blows Twice

1952

Beauty of Life

1951

Repast

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

1951

Early Summer

1951

Freedom School

1951

愛情の旋風

1951

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

1950

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

1950

Till We Meet Again

1950

Four Seasons of Women

1950

Late Spring

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

1949

G-Men of Japan

1948

Great X

1948

Temptation

1948

Children Hand in Hand

1948

Three-Fingered Detective

1947

Spring Awakens

1947

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

1946

Morning for the Osone Family

1946

Kigeki wa owarinu

1946

Umi o yobu koe

1945

Kanchō umi no bara

1945

Umi no tora

1945

Army

1944

The Day England Falls

1942

The Tale of Jiro

1941

A Diary of Our Love

1941

White Heron

1941

Ōhinata-mura

1940

Spring on Leper's Island

1940

Wedding Day

1940

Nightingale

1938

The Lights of Asakusa

1937

Namiko

1932 Debut
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