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