Haruko Sugimura
Actor
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
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi 1949
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") 1965
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam 1965
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma 1962
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi 1959
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe 1951
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi 1959
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi 1957
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige 1961
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura 1956
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge 1946
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun 1955
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru 1965
Repast
as Matsu Murata 1951
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin 1954
Flowing
as Someka 1956