Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-01-06
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
Haruko Sugimura
Biography
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). 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.
Known For
as Shige Kaneko
as Masa Taguchi
as Kin, the madam
as Kikue Haraguchi
as Oyoshi
as Matsu Murata
as Tami Yabe
as Katou Shige
as Madame Noge
as Tamako Tamura
as Shigeko Takeuchi
as Princess Yen-chun
as Kafu's Mother
as Otome, the mother
as Masao's mother
as Fusako Osone
as Self
as Yoko Morimoto
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