1909–1997 · Acting
61.0avg grm
23titles
#93best rank
3honors
best title · #93 on siteTokyo Story1953 · as Shige Kaneko82.0Honors
31974Person of Cultural Merit
1952Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Supporting Actress
—Mainichi Film Award — Best Actress
Bio
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.
Filmography
ranked on this site1970s1 title
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The Fossil1974 · as Mother-in-law58.51960s5 titles
S
Samurai Assassin1965 · as Tsuru57.5S
The Scent of Incense. Part 11964 · as Taromaru58.5M
Mother1963 · as Yoshie58.4A
A Woman's Place1962 · as Aki, Ishikawa-ke no gosai58.6E
The End of Summer1961 · as Katou Shige60.01950s14 titles
F
Floating Weeds1959 · as Oyoshi62.7G
Good Morning1959 · as Kikue Haraguchi61.6S
Summer Clouds1958 · as Mother58.4T
Tokyo Twilight1957 · as Shigeko Takeuchi63.2C
The Crowded Streetcar1957 · as Otome, the mother58.5E
Early Spring1956 · as Tamako Tamura60.0F
Flowing1956 · as Someka58.4S
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum1955 · as Masao's mother58.5P
Princess Yang Kwei-fei1955 · as Princess Yen-chun55.6L
Late Chrysanthemums1954 · as Kin57.9TTokyo Story1953 · as Shige Kaneko82.0E
Early Summer1951 · as Tami Yabe64.0R
Repast1951 · as Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother58.9T
Till We Meet Again1950 · as Ono Suga58.1
