Haruko Sugimura
Known for: Acting
Born: January 6, 1909
Died: April 4, 1997
Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan
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.
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Filmography
120 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
8.0
The Written Face
1995
7.1
A Last Note
1995
7.8
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
6.8
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
NR
An Early Autumn
1987
6.8
I Lived, But...
1983
7.2
The Fossil
1975
7.0
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974NR
雪の華
1973
6.2
The Petrified Forest
1973
NR
Fossil
1972
NR
Onna no hanamichi
1971
NR
Second generation
1970
NR
Only Child
1969
9.0
Slave Factory
1968
6.7
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
10.0
The Daphne
1966
7.0
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
8.2
Red Beard
1965
5.7
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
7.7
Kwaidan
1965
7.3
Samurai Assassin
1965
8.0
Night Scandal
1964
7.2
The Scent of Incense
1964
6.8
Mother
1963
NR
Jidanya
1963
NR
The Navy
1963
NR
Youth After School
1963
7.9
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
NR
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962
6.8
The Broken Commandment
1962
10.0
Musume to watashi
1962
8.0
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
7.2
The Wiser Age
1962
10.0
Their Legacy
1962NR
The Rokumeikan
1961
6.7
The Conspirator
1961
10.0
Buddha
1961
7.5
The End of Summer
1961
7.2
The Gambler's Code
1961
6.0
Deep River Melody
1960
7.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
7.3
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
7.0
Runway to Hell
1960
NR
Banana
1960
NR
Goodbye to Glory
1960
7.5
Floating Weeds
1959
5.5
The Three Treasures
1959
NR
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
7.5
Beauty the Enemy
1959NR
The Rokumeikan
1959
7.7
Good Morning
19596.5
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1958
7.7
Summer Clouds
1958
7.0
Flower's Yearning
1958
NR
Hadaka no Machi
1957
7.7
Tokyo Twilight
1957
6.8
The Crowded Train
1957
7.2
Flowing
1956
NR
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
7.5
Early Spring
1956
7.0
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
7.0
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
8.0
The Romance of Yushima
1955
NR
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
6.7
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
NR
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
7.0
Policeman's Diary
195510.0
Life of Geisha
1955
6.3
The Story of Shunkin
1954
7.2
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
NR
The Glorious Days
1954
NR
Geisha Konatsu
1954
6.3
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
8.2
Tokyo Story
1953
NR
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
1953
NR
Koshō musuko
1953
10.0
Sunflower Girl
1953
7.0
Reminiscence
1953
NR
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
8.0
Forbidden Path
1952
9.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
NR
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
NR
A Meeting of Youths
1952
10.0
Beauty of Life
1951
7.6
Repast
1951
5.4
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
7.9
Early Summer
1951
7.0
Freedom School
1951NR
愛情の旋風
1951
1.0
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
7.5
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
6.7
Till We Meet Again
1950
7.0
Four Seasons of Women
1950
8.0
Late Spring
1949
6.6
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
19496.6
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
NR
Black Cloud Road
1948
NR
G-Men of Japan
1948
NR
Great X
1948
8.0
Temptation
1948
7.0
Children Hand in Hand
1948
7.0
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
6.8
Spring Awakens
1947
6.8
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
7.5
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
6.7
Morning for the Osone Family
1946NR
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946NR
Umi o yobu koe
194510.0
Kanchō umi no bara
1945NR
Umi no tora
1945
6.8
Army
1944
NR
Mother of a Baby Eagle
1944
10.0
The Day England Falls
1942NR
Yamasandō
1942
9.0
The Tale of Jiro
1941
NR
A Diary of Our Love
1941
9.0
White Heron
19419.0
Ōhinata-mura
1940
7.2
Spring on Leper's Island
1940
NR
Wedding Day
1940
10.0
Nightingale
1938
6.0
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
NR
Namiko
1932