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Haruko Sugimura

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Haruko Sugimura

Born January 6, 1909 in Hiroshima, JapanDied April 4, 1997117 films

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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).

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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.

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Red Beard posterFirst watchRed Beard19658.2as Kin, the madamAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Tokyo Story poster8.1Tokyo Story1953Late Spring poster8.0Late Spring1949Kwaidan poster7.7Kwaidan1965An Autumn Afternoon poster7.9An Autumn Afternoon1962Good Morning poster7.7Good Morning1959Early Summer poster7.8Early Summer1951Floating Weeds poster7.5Floating Weeds1959Tokyo Twilight poster7.7Tokyo Twilight1957

Filmography

117 films as actor
  1. 1995A Last NoteYoko Morimoto
  2. 1992The Strange Tale of OyukiKafu's Mother
  3. 1975The FossilItsuki's stepmother
  4. 1974Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
  5. 1973The Petrified Forest
  6. 1971Onna no hanamichi
  7. 1969Only Child
  8. 1968Slave Factory
  9. 1967The Wife of Seishu HanaokaNarrator (voice)
  10. 1966The DaphneAki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
  11. 1965Rokujō yukiyama tsumugiIne's Mother
  12. 1965Red BeardKin, the madam
  13. 1965With Beauty and SorrowOtoko's Mother
  14. 1965KwaidanMadame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
  15. 1965Samurai AssassinTsuru
  16. 1964Night ScandalHatsu Mimura
  17. 1964The Scent of IncenseTaromaru
  18. 1963MotherYoshie
  19. 1963Jidanya
  20. 1963The Navy
  21. 1963Youth After SchoolAyako
  22. 1962An Autumn AfternoonTomoko Sakuma
  23. 1962Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
  24. 1962The Broken CommandmentSchool master's wife
  25. 1962Musume to watashi
  26. 1962Till Tomorrow Is
  27. 1962The Wiser AgeAki
  28. 1962Their Legacy
  29. 1961The Rokumeikan
  30. 1961The Conspirator
  31. 1961BuddhaVaidehi
  32. 1961The End of SummerKatou Shige
  33. 1961The Gambler's CodeOroku
  34. 1960Deep River Melody
  35. 1960The Woman Who Touched LegsPickpocket Haruko
  36. 1960Daughters, Wives and a MotherKayo Tani
  37. 1960Runway to HellOkuma
  38. 1960Banana
  39. 1960Goodbye to GloryFukunaga's mother Yuki
  40. 1959Floating WeedsOyoshi
  41. 1959The Three TreasuresNarrator
  42. 1959Pilgrimage at NightOsai
  43. 1959Beauty the EnemyFusa Yoshino
  44. 1959The Rokumeikan
  45. 1959Good MorningKikue Haraguchi
  46. 1958The Spell of the Hidden GoldSonoe
  47. 1958Summer CloudsMother
  48. 1958Flower's YearningIkegami Rie
  49. 1957Hadaka no Machi
  50. 1957Tokyo TwilightShigeko Takeuchi
  51. 1957The Crowded TrainOtome, the mother
  52. 1956FlowingSomeka
  53. 1956Yonjū-hassai no teikō
  54. 1956Early SpringTamako Tamura
  55. 1956Samurai of the Great Earth
  56. 1955She Was Like a Wild ChrysanthemumMasao's mother
  57. 1955The Romance of Yushima
  58. 1955The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
  59. 1955Princess Yang Kwei-feiPrincess Yen-chun
  60. 1955Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
  61. 1955Policeman's DiaryMoyo Sugita
  62. 1955Life of Geisha
  63. 1954The Story of Shunkin
  64. 1954Late ChrysanthemumsKin
  65. 1954The Glorious Days
  66. 1954Geisha KonatsuRaku Kamioka
  67. 1953An Inlet of Muddy Water
  68. 1953Tokyo StoryShige Kaneko
  69. 1953Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
  70. 1953Koshō musuko
  71. 1953Sunflower Girl
  72. 1953ReminiscenceChikako
  73. 1952Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
  74. 1952Forbidden Path
  75. 1952Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
  76. 1952The Wind Blows TwiceOritsu
  77. 1952A Meeting of YouthsTamiyo
  78. 1951Beauty of Life
  79. 1951RepastMatsu Murata
  80. 1951Fireworks Over the SeaKono Kujirai
  81. 1951Early SummerTami Yabe
  82. 1951Freedom School
  83. 1951愛情の旋風
  84. 1950The Rainbow-Colored FlowerKoyabu
  85. 1950Listen to the Voices of the Sea
  86. 1950Till We Meet AgainSuga Ono
  87. 1950Four Seasons of WomenOsone
  88. 1949Late SpringMasa Taguchi
  89. 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2Oshin
  90. 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1Oshin
  91. 1948Black Cloud Road
  92. 1948G-Men of Japan
  93. 1948Great XTaka
  94. 1948Children Hand in Hand
  95. 1948TemptationTokie
  96. 1947Three-Fingered Detective
  97. 1947Spring Awakens
  98. 1946No Regrets for Our YouthMadame Noge
  99. 1946A Descendant of Urashima Taro
  100. 1946Morning for the Osone FamilyFusako Osone
  101. 1946Kigeki wa owarinu
  102. 1945Umi o yobu koe
  103. 1945Kanchō umi no bara
  104. 1945Umi no tora
  105. 1944ArmySetsu
  106. 1944Mother of a Baby Eagle
  107. 1942The Day England Falls
  108. 1942Yamasandō
  109. 1941The Tale of Jiro
  110. 1941A Diary of Our Love
  111. 1941White Heron
  112. 1940Ōhinata-mura
  113. 1940Spring on Leper's Island
  114. 1940Wedding Day
  115. 1938NightingaleMidwife Yae
  116. 1937The Lights of AsakusaMarieda Matsushima
  117. 1932Namiko