Haruko Sugimura

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Haruko Sugimura

Acting January 6, 1909

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 Mi…

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Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

8.1 1953 Movie
Late Spring

Late Spring

8.0 1949 Movie
Kwaidan

Kwaidan

7.7 1965 Movie
Red Beard

Red Beard

8.2 1965 Movie
An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

7.9 1962 Movie
Good Morning

Good Morning

7.7 1959 Movie
Early Summer

Early Summer

7.8 1951 Movie
Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

7.5 1959 Movie
Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight

7.7 1957 Movie
The End of Summer

The End of Summer

7.5 1961 Movie
Early Spring

Early Spring

7.5 1956 Movie
No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth

6.8 1946 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1995
    The Written Face

    Movie Self

  2. 1995
    A Last Note

    Movie Yoko Morimoto

  3. 1992
    The Strange Tale of Oyuki

    Movie Kafu's Mother

  4. 1988
    Sakura-tai Chiru

    Movie

  5. 1987
    An Early Autumn

    TV show

  6. 1983
    I Lived, But...

    Movie Self

  7. 1975
    The Fossil

    Movie Itsuki's stepmother

  8. 1974
    Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

    Movie

  9. 1973
    雪の華

    TV show

  10. 1973
    The Petrified Forest

    Movie

  11. 1972
    Fossil

    TV show Mother-in-Law

  12. 1971
    Onna no hanamichi

    Movie

  13. 1970
    Second generation

    TV show

  14. 1969
    Only Child

    Movie

  15. 1968
    Slave Factory

    Movie

  16. 1967
    The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

    Movie

More credits
  1. 1966
    The Daphne

    Movie Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

  2. 1965
    Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

    Movie Ine's Mother

  3. 1965
    Red Beard

    Movie Kin, the madam

  4. 1965
    With Beauty and Sorrow

    Movie Otoko's Mother

  5. 1965
    Kwaidan

    Movie Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

  6. 1965
    Samurai Assassin

    Movie Tsuru

  7. 1964
    Night Scandal

    Movie Hatsu Mimura

  8. 1964
    The Scent of Incense

    Movie Taromaru

  9. 1963
    Mother

    Movie Yoshie

  10. 1963
    Jidanya

    Movie

  11. 1963
    The Navy

    Movie

  12. 1963
    Youth After School

    Movie Ayako

  13. 1962
    An Autumn Afternoon

    Movie Tomoko Sakuma

  14. 1962
    Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

    Movie

  15. 1962
    The Broken Commandment

    Movie School master's wife

  16. 1962
    Musume to watashi

    Movie

  17. 1962
    Till Tomorrow Is

    Movie

  18. 1962
    The Wiser Age

    Movie Aki

  19. 1962
    Their Legacy

    Movie

  20. 1961
    The Rokumeikan

    Movie

  21. 1961
    The Conspirator

    Movie

  22. 1961
    Buddha

    Movie Vaidehi

  23. 1961
    The End of Summer

    Movie Katou Shige

  24. 1961
    The Gambler's Code

    Movie Oroku