
Haruko Sugimura
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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Films
3
TV Shows
Known For
100 Credits
G-Men of Japan
1948

Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
1953

Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965

Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
1959

Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
1965

Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
1949

Second generation
1970

Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
1951

An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
1962

No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
1946

Buddha
as Vaidehi
1961

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo Tani
1960