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Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Biography
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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.
BODY OF WORK
Haruko Sugimura's Filmography
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The Written Face
as Self
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's Mother
Sakura-tai Chiru
I Lived, But...
as Self
The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
The Petrified Forest
Onna no hanamichi
Only Child
Slave Factory
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Narrator (voice)
The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's Mother
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
The Radish and the Carrot
Night Scandal
as Hatsu Mimura
The Scent of Incense
as Taromaru
Mother
as Yoshie
Jidanya
The Navy
Youth After School
as Ayako
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Broken Commandment
as School master's wife
Musume to watashi
Till Tomorrow Is
The Wiser Age
as Aki
Their Legacy
No Poster
The Rokumeikan
The Conspirator
Buddha
as Vaidehi
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
The Gambler's Code
as Oroku
Deep River Melody
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket Haruko
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
Runway to Hell
as Okuma
Banana
Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
The Three Treasures
as Narrator
Pilgrimage at Night
as Osai
Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa Yoshino
No Poster
The Rokumeikan
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
No Poster
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
as Sonoe
Summer Clouds
as Mother
Flower's Yearning
as Ikegami Rie
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Hadaka no Machi
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
The Crowded Train
as Otome, the mother
Flowing
as Someka
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
Samurai of the Great Earth
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
The Romance of Yushima
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
Policeman's Diary
as Moyo Sugita
No Poster
Life of Geisha
The Story of Shunkin
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
The Glorious Days
Geisha Konatsu
as Raku Kamioka
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
Koshō musuko
Sunflower Girl
Reminiscence
as Chikako
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
Forbidden Path
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Wind Blows Twice
as Oritsu
A Meeting of Youths
as Tamiyo
Beauty of Life
Repast
as Matsu Murata
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono Kujirai
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
Freedom School
No Poster
愛情の旋風
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Koyabu
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Till We Meet Again
as Suga Ono
Four Seasons of Women
as Osone
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oshin
Black Cloud Road
G-Men of Japan
Great X
as Taka
Children Hand in Hand
Temptation
as Tokie
Three-Fingered Detective
Spring Awakens
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako Osone
No Poster
Kigeki wa owarinu
No Poster
Umi o yobu koe
No Poster
Kanchō umi no bara
No Poster
Umi no tora
Army
as Setsu
Mother of a Baby Eagle
The Day England Falls
No Poster
Yamasandō
The Tale of Jiro
A Diary of Our Love
White Heron
No Poster
Ōhinata-mura
Spring on Leper's Island
Wedding Day
Nightingale
as Midwife Yae
The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda Matsushima
