Acting
Haruko Sugimura
Born 1909-01-06
Hiroshima, Japan
Department: Acting
Biography
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
Prominent works featuring Haruko Sugimura
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Tokyo Story
1953
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Late Spring
1949
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Kwaidan
1965
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Red Beard
1965
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An Autumn Afternoon
1962
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Good Morning
1959
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Floating Weeds
1959
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Early Summer
1951
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Tokyo Twilight
1957
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The End of Summer
1961
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (124 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Written Face | Self | Movie | 1995 |
 | A Last Note | Yoko Morimoto | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Strange Tale of Oyuki | Kafu's Mother | Movie | 1992 |
 | Sakura-tai Chiru | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1988 |
 | An Early Autumn | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1987 |
 | I Lived, But... | Self | Movie | 1983 |
 | The Fossil | Itsuki's stepmother | Movie | 1975 |
 | Akumyo: Notorious Dragon | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1974 |
| 雪の華 | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1973 | |
 | The Petrified Forest | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1973 |
 | Fossil | Mother-in-Law | TV Series | 1972 |
 | Onna no hanamichi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1971 |
 | Second generation | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Only Child | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Slave Factory | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Daphne | Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother) | Movie | 1966 |
 | Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi | Ine's Mother | Movie | 1965 |
 | Red Beard | Kin, the madam | Movie | 1965 |
 | With Beauty and Sorrow | Otoko's Mother | Movie | 1965 |
 | Kwaidan | Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") | Movie | 1965 |
 | Samurai Assassin | Tsuru | Movie | 1965 |
 | Night Scandal | Hatsu Mimura | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Scent of Incense | Taromaru | Movie | 1964 |
 | Mother | Yoshie | Movie | 1963 |
 | Jidanya | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Navy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Youth After School | Ayako | Movie | 1963 |
 | An Autumn Afternoon | Tomoko Sakuma | Movie | 1962 |
 | Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Broken Commandment | School master's wife | Movie | 1962 |
 | Musume to watashi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Till Tomorrow Is | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Wiser Age | Aki | Movie | 1962 |
 | Their Legacy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
| The Rokumeikan | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 | |
 | The Conspirator | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Buddha | Vaidehi | Movie | 1961 |
 | The End of Summer | Katou Shige | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Gambler's Code | Oroku | Movie | 1961 |
 | Deep River Melody | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Woman Who Touched Legs | Pickpocket Haruko | Movie | 1960 |
 | Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Kayo Tani | Movie | 1960 |
 | Runway to Hell | Okuma | Movie | 1960 |
 | Banana | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Goodbye to Glory | Fukunaga's mother Yuki | Movie | 1960 |
 | Floating Weeds | Oyoshi | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Three Treasures | Narrator | Movie | 1959 |
 | Pilgrimage at Night | Osai | Movie | 1959 |
 | Beauty the Enemy | Fusa Yoshino | Movie | 1959 |
| The Rokumeikan | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 | |
 | Good Morning | Kikue Haraguchi | Movie | 1959 |
| The Spell of the Hidden Gold | Sonoe | Movie | 1958 | |
 | Summer Clouds | Mother | Movie | 1958 |
 | Flower's Yearning | Ikegami Rie | Movie | 1958 |
 | Hadaka no Machi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Tokyo Twilight | Shigeko Takeuchi | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Crowded Train | Otome, the mother | Movie | 1957 |
 | Flowing | Someka | Movie | 1956 |
 | Yonjū-hassai no teikō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Early Spring | Tamako Tamura | Movie | 1956 |
 | Samurai of the Great Earth | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Masao's mother | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Romance of Yushima | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Tears of Geisha Konatsu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Princess Yang Kwei-fei | Princess Yen-chun | Movie | 1955 |
 | Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Policeman's Diary | Moyo Sugita | Movie | 1955 |
| Life of Geisha | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 | |
 | The Story of Shunkin | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Late Chrysanthemums | Kin | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Glorious Days | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Geisha Konatsu | Raku Kamioka | Movie | 1954 |
 | An Inlet of Muddy Water | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Tokyo Story | Shige Kaneko | Movie | 1953 |
 | Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Koshō musuko | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Sunflower Girl | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Reminiscence | Chikako | Movie | 1953 |
 | Toki no teizo: Sōshūban | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Forbidden Path | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Kin no tamago: Golden Girl | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | The Wind Blows Twice | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | A Meeting of Youths | Tamiyo | Movie | 1952 |
 | Beauty of Life | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
 | Repast | Matsu Murata | Movie | 1951 |
 | Fireworks Over the Sea | Kono Kujirai | Movie | 1951 |
 | Early Summer | Tami Yabe | Movie | 1951 |
 | Freedom School | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
| 愛情の旋風 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 | |
 | The Rainbow-Colored Flower | Koyabu | Movie | 1950 |
 | Listen to the Voices of the Sea | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 |
 | Till We Meet Again | Suga Ono | Movie | 1950 |
 | Four Seasons of Women | Osone | Movie | 1950 |
 | Late Spring | Masa Taguchi | Movie | 1949 |
 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 | Oshin | Movie | 1949 |
| Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 | Oshin | Movie | 1949 |
 | Black Cloud Road | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 |
 | G-Men of Japan | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 |
 | Great X | Taka | Movie | 1948 |
 | Temptation | Tokie | Movie | 1948 |
 | Children Hand in Hand | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 |
 | Three-Fingered Detective | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1947 |
 | Spring Awakens | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1947 |
 | No Regrets for Our Youth | Madame Noge | Movie | 1946 |
 | A Descendant of Urashima Taro | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1946 |
 | Morning for the Osone Family | Fusako Osone | Movie | 1946 |
| Kigeki wa owarinu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1946 | |
| Umi o yobu koe | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1945 | |
| Kanchō umi no bara | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1945 | |
| Umi no tora | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1945 | |
 | Army | Setsu | Movie | 1944 |
 | Mother of a Baby Eagle | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1944 |
 | The Day England Falls | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1942 |
| Yamasandō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1942 | |
 | The Tale of Jiro | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1941 |
 | A Diary of Our Love | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1941 |
 | White Heron | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1941 |
| Ōhinata-mura | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1940 | |
 | Spring on Leper's Island | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1940 |
 | Wedding Day | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1940 |
 | Nightingale | Midwife Yae | Movie | 1938 |
 | The Lights of Asakusa | Marieda Matsushima | Movie | 1937 |
 | Namiko | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1932 |