Haruko Sugimura
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-01-07
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
Haruko Sugimura
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.
Also Known For
The Scent of Incense
May 24, 1964
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
May 14, 1952
The Day England Falls
Nov 19, 1942
Red Beard
Mar 04, 1965
Jidanya
Oct 30, 1963
Late Spring
Sep 13, 1949
Early Spring
Jan 29, 1956
Kwaidan
Jan 06, 1965
G-Men of Japan
Oct 12, 1948
Youth After School
Mar 21, 1963
The End of Summer
Oct 29, 1961
Good Morning
May 12, 1959
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Feb 10, 1962
Late Chrysanthemums
Jun 15, 1954
No Regrets for Our Youth
Oct 29, 1946
Four Seasons of Women
Feb 27, 1950
Musume to watashi
Apr 01, 1962
Repast
Nov 23, 1951
Flowing
Nov 20, 1956
Their Legacy
Jan 03, 1962
Floating Weeds
Nov 17, 1959
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Oct 28, 1967
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Oct 09, 1965
Tokyo Story
Nov 03, 1953
Early Summer
Oct 03, 1951
Tokyo Twilight
Apr 30, 1957
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
May 03, 1955
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
May 09, 1962
Night Scandal
Jul 11, 1964
Samurai Assassin
Jan 03, 1965
A Last Note
Jun 03, 1995
The Broken Commandment
Apr 06, 1962
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Nov 29, 1955
Morning for the Osone Family
Feb 21, 1946
Summer Clouds
Sep 02, 1958
Only Child
May 06, 1969
The Petrified Forest
Sep 01, 1973
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Jul 05, 1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Jul 16, 1949
White Heron
Sep 09, 1941
A Diary of Our Love
Nov 07, 1941
Spring Awakens
Nov 02, 1947
The Story of Shunkin
Jun 27, 1954
The Romance of Yushima
Sep 28, 1955
Umi no tora
Feb 08, 1945
The Conspirator
Nov 08, 1961
Kanchō umi no bara
Feb 22, 1945
The Lights of Asakusa
Dec 02, 1937
愛情の旋風
Feb 10, 1951
Dorei kōjō
Jan 25, 1968
Army
Dec 07, 1944
The Gambler's Code
Jun 14, 1961
Freedom School
May 05, 1951
Hadaka no Machi
Jul 23, 1957
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Mar 28, 1946
Temptation
Apr 01, 1948
Samurai of the Great Earth
Jan 29, 1956
The Written Face
Sep 01, 1995
The Crowded Train
Mar 29, 1957
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
May 21, 1960
Umi o yobu koe
Oct 25, 1945
The Rokumeikan
Dec 01, 1961
The Rokumeikan
Jul 09, 1959
Buddha
Oct 31, 1961
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Apr 24, 1974
Fireworks Over the Sea
Oct 25, 1951
Policeman's Diary
Feb 03, 1955
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Jun 15, 1950
Till We Meet Again
Mar 21, 1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Oct 14, 1950
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Jun 06, 1992
Life of Geisha
Jan 22, 1955
Deep River Melody
Sep 13, 1960
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Oct 21, 1958
The Wiser Age
Jan 14, 1962
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Aug 24, 1960
Spring on Leper's Island
Jul 31, 1940
Great X
May 07, 1948
Goodbye to Glory
Apr 01, 1960
I Lived, But...
Oct 29, 1983
Mother
Nov 08, 1963
Runway to Hell
May 03, 1960
Reminiscence
Jan 15, 1953
Children Hand in Hand
Mar 30, 1948
The Three Treasures
Nov 01, 1959
The Fossil
Oct 04, 1975
Beauty the Enemy
Aug 12, 1959
The Daphne
Oct 01, 1966
An Autumn Afternoon
Nov 18, 1962
Wedding Day
Mar 20, 1940
The Navy
Aug 13, 1963
Sakura-tai Chiru
Apr 01, 1988
Forbidden Path
Jul 08, 1952
Sunflower Girl
Mar 26, 1953
Namiko
May 19, 1932
Three-Fingered Detective
Dec 09, 1947
With Beauty and Sorrow
Feb 28, 1965
Onna no hanamichi
Nov 20, 1971
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Nov 23, 1953
Nightingale
Nov 09, 1938
The Glorious Days
Apr 14, 1954
Beauty of Life
Dec 07, 1951
The Wind Blows Twice
Feb 14, 1952
Tale of Jiro
Dec 11, 1941
Ōhinata-mura
Oct 30, 1940
Flower's Yearning
Aug 05, 1958
雪の華
Dec 02, 1973
An Early Autumn
Nov 28, 1987
