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Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Acting · Born 1909-01-06 · 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.

Known For

movie 8.2 Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
1953
movie 8.0 Late Spring
Late Spring
1949
movie 7.7 Kwaidan
Kwaidan
1965
movie 8.2 Red Beard
Red Beard
1965
movie 7.9 An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
movie 7.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
1959
movie 7.9 Early Summer
Early Summer
1951
movie 7.5 Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds
1959
movie 7.7 Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight
1957
movie 7.5 The End of Summer
The End of Summer
1961
movie 7.5 Early Spring
Early Spring
1956
movie 6.8 No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
movie 6.7 Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
movie 7.3 Samurai Assassin
Samurai Assassin
1965
movie 7.6 Repast
Repast
1951
movie 7.2 Late Chrysanthemums
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
movie 7.2 Flowing
Flowing
1956
movie 5.7 With Beauty and Sorrow
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965