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.
Acting
Movie
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
1953
Movie
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
1949
Movie
Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965
Movie
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
1965
Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
1962
Movie
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
1959
Movie
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe
1951
Movie
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi
1959
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
Movie
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
1961
Movie
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura
1956
Movie
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge
1946
Movie
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun
1955
Movie
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru
1965
Movie
Repast
as Matsu Murata
1951
Movie
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin
1954
Movie
Flowing
as Someka
1956
Movie
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother
1965
Movie
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother
1955
Movie
Army
as Setsu
1944
Movie
Summer Clouds
as Mother
1958
Movie
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oshin
1949
Movie
A Last Note
as Yoko Morimoto
1995
Movie
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Oshin
1949