Haruko Sugimura profile
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Haruko Sugimura

6th January 1909 Hiroshima, Japan 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.

109 Movies 3 TV Shows 124 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Daphne poster
The Daphne 1st October 1966 as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Kwaidan poster
Kwaidan 6th January 1965 as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Mother poster
Mother 8th November 1963 as Yoshie
Buddha poster
Buddha 31st October 1961 as Vaidehi
Repast poster
Repast 23rd November 1951 as Matsu Murata
Army poster
Army 7th December 1944 as Setsu
Fossil poster
Fossil 31st January 1972 as Mother-in-Law