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.
Top Filmography
Tokyo Story
1953 // MOVIE
Late Spring
1949 // MOVIE
Kwaidan
1965 // MOVIE
Red Beard
1965 // MOVIE
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 // MOVIE
Good Morning
1959 // MOVIE
Early Summer
1951 // MOVIE
Floating Weeds
1959 // MOVIE
Tokyo Twilight
1957 // MOVIE
The End of Summer
1961 // MOVIE
Early Spring
1956 // MOVIE
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946 // MOVIE
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955 // MOVIE
Samurai Assassin
1965 // MOVIE
Repast
1951 // MOVIE