Haruko Sugimura
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 Written Face
1995
as Self
A Last Note
1995
as Yoko Morimoto
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
as Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
I Lived, But...
1983
as Self
The Fossil
1975
as Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Petrified Forest
1973
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Only Child
1969
Slave Factory
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Daphne
1966
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
as Ine's Mother
Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
as Otoko's Mother
Kwaidan
1965
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuru
Night Scandal
1964
as Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense
1964
as Taromaru
Mother
1963
as Yoshie
Jidanya
1963
The Navy
1963
Youth After School
1963
as Ayako