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Haruko Sugimura

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.

Birthday: 1909-01-07

Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan

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Also known as: Харуко Сугимура, هاروکو سوگیمورا

The Scent of Incense
The Scent of Incense

1964-05-24

Taromaru

Red Beard
Red Beard

1965-04-03

Kin, the madam

Jidanya
Jidanya

1963-10-30

Late Spring
Late Spring

1949-09-13

Masa Taguchi

Early Spring
Early Spring

1956-01-29

Tamako Tamura

Kwaidan
Kwaidan

1965-01-06

Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

G-Men of Japan
G-Men of Japan

1948-10-12

Youth After School
Youth After School

1963-03-21

Ayako

The End of Summer
The End of Summer

1961-10-29

Katou Shige

Good Morning
Good Morning

1959-05-12

Kikue Haraguchi

Late Chrysanthemums
Late Chrysanthemums

1954-06-15

Kin

No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth

1946-10-29

Madame Noge

Four Seasons of Women
Four Seasons of Women

1950-02-27

Osone

Repast
Repast

1951-11-23

Matsu Murata

Flowing
Flowing

1956-11-20

Someka

Their Legacy
Their Legacy

1962-01-03

Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds

1959-11-17

Oyoshi

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

1965-10-09

Ine's Mother

Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story

1953-11-03

Shige Kaneko

Early Summer
Early Summer

1951-10-03

Tami Yabe

Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight

1957-04-30

Shigeko Takeuchi

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yang Kwei-fei

1955-05-03

Princess Yen-chun

Night Scandal
Night Scandal

1964-07-11

Hatsu Mimura

Samurai Assassin
Samurai Assassin

1965-01-03

Tsuru

A Last Note
A Last Note

1995-06-03

Yoko Morimoto

The Broken Commandment
The Broken Commandment

1962-04-06

School master's wife

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1955-11-29

Masao's mother

Morning for the Osone Family
Morning for the Osone Family

1946-02-21

Fusako Osone

Summer Clouds
Summer Clouds

1958-09-02

Mother

Only Child
Only Child

1969-05-06

White Heron
White Heron

1941-09-09

Spring Awakens
Spring Awakens

1947-11-02

Umi no tora
Umi no tora

1945-02-08

The Conspirator
The Conspirator

1961-11-08

The Lights of Asakusa
The Lights of Asakusa

1937-12-02

Marieda Matsushima

愛情の旋風
愛情の旋風

1951-02-10

Dorei kōjō
Dorei kōjō

1968-01-25

Army
Army

1944-12-07

Setsu

The Gambler's Code
The Gambler's Code

1961-06-14

Oroku

Freedom School
Freedom School

1951-05-05

Hadaka no Machi
Hadaka no Machi

1957-07-23

Temptation
Temptation

1948-04-01

Tokie

The Written Face
The Written Face

1995-09-01

Self

The Crowded Train
The Crowded Train

1957-03-29

Otome, the mother

Umi o yobu koe
Umi o yobu koe

1945-10-25

The Rokumeikan
The Rokumeikan

1959-07-09

The Rokumeikan
The Rokumeikan

1961-12-01

Buddha
Buddha

1961-10-31

Vaidehi

Fireworks Over the Sea
Fireworks Over the Sea

1951-10-25

Kono Kujirai

Policeman's Diary
Policeman's Diary

1955-02-03

Moyo Sugita

Till We Meet Again
Till We Meet Again

1950-03-21

Suga Ono

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
The Strange Tale of Oyuki

1992-06-06

Kafu's Mother

Life of Geisha
Life of Geisha

1955-01-22

The Wiser Age
The Wiser Age

1962-01-14

Aki

The Woman Who Touched Legs
The Woman Who Touched Legs

1960-08-24

Pickpocket Haruko

Great X
Great X

1948-05-07

Taka

Goodbye to Glory
Goodbye to Glory

1960-04-01

Fukunaga's mother Yuki

I Lived, But...
I Lived, But...

1983-10-29

Self

Mother
Mother

1963-11-08

Yoshie

Runway to Hell
Runway to Hell

1960-05-03

Okuma

Reminiscence
Reminiscence

1953-01-15

Chikako

The Three Treasures
The Three Treasures

1959-11-01

Narrator

The Fossil
The Fossil

1975-10-04

Itsuki's stepmother

Beauty the Enemy
Beauty the Enemy

1959-08-12

Fusa Yoshino

The Daphne
The Daphne

1966-10-01

Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon

1962-11-18

Tomoko Sakuma

Wedding Day
Wedding Day

1940-03-20

The Navy
The Navy

1963-08-13

Forbidden Path
Forbidden Path

1952-07-08

Sunflower Girl
Sunflower Girl

1953-03-26

Namiko
Namiko

1932-05-19

With Beauty and Sorrow
With Beauty and Sorrow

1965-02-28

Otoko's Mother

Nightingale
Nightingale

1938-11-09

Midwife Yae

Beauty of Life
Beauty of Life

1951-12-07

Tale of Jiro
Tale of Jiro

1941-12-11

Ōhinata-mura
Ōhinata-mura

1940-10-30