Haruko Sugimura
Born in Hiroshima, Japan — Jan 07 1909• Died Apr 04 1997
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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.…
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Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
An Early Autumn
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
The Three Treasures
Narrator
Repast
Matsu Murata
Fossil
Mother-in-Law
Buddha
Vaidehi
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
Flowing
Someka
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
Summer Clouds
Mother
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
Army
Setsu
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
Second generation
Sunflower Girl
An Inlet of Muddy Water
The Romance of Yushima
The Navy
Forbidden Path
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
I Lived, But...
Self
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
Till Tomorrow Is
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
Slave Factory
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
Freedom School
The Wiser Age
Aki
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
Youth After School
Ayako
Great X
Taka
Deep River Melody
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Samurai of the Great Earth
Beauty of Life
Their Legacy
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie
Sakura-tai Chiru
Only Child
Spring Awakens
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
The Glorious Days
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
Reminiscence
Chikako
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
The Petrified Forest
The Story of Shunkin
White Heron
The Rokumeikan
Wedding Day
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
The Rokumeikan
愛情の旋風
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
Children Hand in Hand
Hadaka no Machi
Life of Geisha
The Conspirator
Temptation
Tokie
Jidanya
Mother
Yoshie
Onna no hanamichi
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Three-Fingered Detective
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Musume to watashi
G-Men of Japan
The Wind Blows Twice
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
Kanchō umi no bara
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Written Face
Self
The Day England Falls
Namiko
The Tale of Jiro
A Diary of Our Love
Ōhinata-mura
Umi o yobu koe
雪の華
Umi no tora
Spring on Leper's Island
Kigeki wa owarinu