Haruko Sugimura

Biography

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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).

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Known For

Tokyo Story

Shige Kaneko

Red Beard

Kin, the madam

Kwaidan

Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Good Morning

Kikue Haraguchi

Late Spring

Masa Taguchi

Floating Weeds

Oyoshi

Early Spring

Tamako Tamura

Tokyo Twilight

Shigeko Takeuchi

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1995	A Last Note	Yoko Morimoto
1995	The Written Face	Self
1992	The Strange Tale of Oyuki	Kafu's Mother
1988	Sakura-tai Chiru
1983	I Lived, But...	Self
1974	Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974	The Fossil	Itsuki's stepmother
1973	The Petrified Forest
1971	Onna no hanamichi
1969	Only Child
1968	Dorei kōjō
1967	The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1966	The Daphne	Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1965	Red Beard	Kin, the madam
1965	Kwaidan	Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965	Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi	Ine's Mother
1965	Samurai Assassin	Tsuru
1965	With Beauty and Sorrow	Otoko's Mother
1964	The Scent of Incense	Taromaru
1964	Night Scandal	Hatsu Mimura
1963	Jidanya
1963	Youth After School	Ayako
1963	Mother	Yoshie
1963	The Navy
1962	Till Tomorow Comes
1962	Musume to watashi
1962	Their Legacy
1962	Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962	The Broken Commandment	School master's wife
1962	The Wiser Age	Aki
1962	An Autumn Afternoon	Tomoko Sakuma
1961	The End of Summer	Katou Shige
1961	The Conspirator
1961	The Gambler's Code	Oroku
1961	The Rokumeikan
1961	Buddha	Vaidehi
1960	Daughters, Wives and a Mother	Kayo Tani
1960	Deep River Melody
1960	The Woman Who Touched Legs	Pickpocket Haruko
1960	Goodbye to Glory	Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1960	Runway to Hell	Okuma
1959	Good Morning	Kikue Haraguchi
1959	Floating Weeds	Oyoshi
1959	The Rokumeikan
1959	The Three Treasures	Narrator
1959	Beauty the Enemy	Fusa Yoshino
1958	Summer Clouds	Mother
1958	The Spell of the Hidden Gold	Sonoe
1957	Tokyo Twilight	Shigeko Takeuchi
1957	Hadaka no Machi
1957	The Crowded Train	Otome, the mother
1956	Early Spring	Tamako Tamura
1956	Flowing	Someka
1956	Samurai of the Great Earth
1955	Princess Yang Kwei-fei	Princess Yen-chun
1955	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum	Masao's mother
1955	The Romance of Yushima
1955	Policeman's Diary	Moyo Sugita
1955	Life of Geisha
1954	Late Chrysanthemums	Kin
1954	The Story of Shunkin
1954	The Glorious Days
1953	Tokyo Story	Shige Kaneko
1953	Reminiscence	Chikako
1953	Sunflower Girl
1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water
1952	Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952	Forbidden Path
1952	The Wind Blows Twice
1951	Repast	Matsu Murata
1951	Early Summer	Tami Yabe
1951	愛情の旋風
1951	Freedom School
1951	Fireworks Over the Sea	Kono Kujirai
1951	Beauty of Life
1950	Four Seasons of Women	Osone
1950	Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950	Till We Meet Again	Suga Ono
1950	The Rainbow-Colored Flower	Koyabu
1949	Late Spring	Masa Taguchi
1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1	Oshin
1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2	Oshin
1948	G-Men of Japan
1948	Temptation	Tokie
1948	Great X	Taka
1948	Children Hand in Hand
1947	Spring Awakens
1947	Three-Fingered Detective
1946	No Regrets for Our Youth	Madame Noge
1946	Morning for the Osone Family	Fusako Osone
1946	A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1945	Umi no tora
1945	Kanchō umi no bara
1945	Umi o yobu koe
1944	Army	Setsu
1942	The Day England Falls
1941	White Heron
1941	A Diary of Our Love
1941	Tale of Jiro
1940	Spring on Leper's Island
1940	Wedding Day
1940	Ōhinata-mura
1938	Nightingale	Midwife Yae
1937	The Lights of Asakusa	Marieda Matsushima
1932	Namiko

Year	TV Show	Role
1987	An Early Autumn
1973	雪の華
1970	Second generation