
Haruko Sugimura
Acting
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 Written Face
Self

A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother

Sakura-tai Chiru

I Lived, But...
Self

The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

The Petrified Forest

Onna no hanamichi

Only Child

Dorei kōjō

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother

Red Beard
Kin, the madam

With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother

Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Samurai Assassin
Tsuru

Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura

The Scent of Incense
Taromaru

Mother
Yoshie

Jidanya

The Navy

Youth After School
Ayako

An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

The Broken Commandment
School master's wife

Musume to watashi

As Long as There's Tomorrow

The Wiser Age
Aki

Their Legacy
The Rokumeikan

The Conspirator

Buddha
Vaidehi

The End of Summer
Katou Shige

The Gambler's Code
Oroku

Deep River Melody

The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani

Runway to Hell
Okuma

Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki

Floating Weeds
Oyoshi

The Three Treasures
Narrator

Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
The Rokumeikan

Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe

Summer Clouds
Mother

Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie

Hadaka no Machi

Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi

The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother

Flowing
Someka

Samurai of the Great Earth

Early Spring
Tamako Tamura

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother

The Romance of Yushima

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun

Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
Life of Geisha

The Story of Shunkin

Late Chrysanthemums
Kin

The Glorious Days

An Inlet of Muddy Water

Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko

Sunflower Girl

Reminiscence
Chikako

Forbidden Path

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

The Wind Blows Twice

Beauty of Life

Repast
Matsu Murata

Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai

Early Summer
Tami Yabe

Freedom School
愛情の旋風

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono

Four Seasons of Women
Osone

Late Spring
Masa Taguchi

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin

G-Men of Japan

Great X
Taka

Temptation
Tokie

Children Hand in Hand

Three-Fingered Detective

Spring Awakens

No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
Kigeki wa owarinu
Umi o yobu koe
Kanchō umi no bara
Umi no tora

Army
Setsu

The Day England Falls

The Tale of Jiro

A Diary of Our Love

White Heron
Ōhinata-mura

Spring on Leper's Island

Wedding Day

Nightingale
Midwife Yae

The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima

Namiko







