Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1909-01-06
Day of Death
1997-04-04
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japon
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.
Filmography (111)
The Written Face
1995
A Last Note
1995
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
I Lived, But...
1983
The Fossil
1975
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974
The Petrified Forest
1973
Onna no hanamichi
1971
Only Child
1969
Slave Factory
1968
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
The Daphne
1966
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
