Haruko Sugimura
Age: N/A | From: Hiroshima, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Харуко Сугимура , هاروکو سوگیمورا
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 52
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Tokyo Story
(1953) Shige Kaneko
Red Beard
(1965) Kin, the madam
Kwaidan
(1965) Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Late Spring
(1949) Masa Taguchi
Tokyo Twilight
(1957) Shigeko Takeuchi
Floating Weeds
(1959) Oyoshi
No Regrets for Our Youth
(1946) Madame Noge
The End of Summer
(1961) Katou ShigeActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Yoko Morimoto | |
| 1992 | Kafu's Mother | |
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Self | |
| 1975 | Itsuki's stepmother | |
| 1973 | N/A | |
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| 1971 | N/A | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| 1968 | N/A | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
| 1966 | Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother) | |
| 1965 | Ine's Mother | |
| Kin, the madam | ||
| Otoko's Mother | ||
| Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") | ||
| Tsuru | ||
| 1964 | Hatsu Mimura | |
| Taromaru | ||
| 1963 | Yoshie | |
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| Ayako | ||
| 1962 | Tomoko Sakuma | |
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| School master's wife | ||
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| Aki | ||
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| 1961 | N/A | |
| Vaidehi | ||
| Katou Shige | ||
| Oroku | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Pickpocket Haruko | ||
| Kayo Tani | ||
| Okuma | ||
| Fukunaga's mother Yuki | ||
| 1959 | Oyoshi | |
| Narrator | ||
| Fusa Yoshino | ||
| Kikue Haraguchi | ||
| 1958 | Sonoe | |
| Mother | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| Shigeko Takeuchi | ||
| Otome, the mother | ||
| 1956 | Someka | |
| Tamako Tamura | ||
| 1955 | Masao's mother | |
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| Princess Yen-chun | ||
| Moyo Sugita | ||
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| 1954 | N/A | |
| Kin | ||
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| 1953 | N/A | |
| Shige Kaneko | ||
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| Chikako | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
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| 1951 | N/A | |
| Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother | ||
| Kono Kujirai | ||
| Tami Yabe | ||
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| 1950 | Koyabu | |
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| Suga Ono | ||
| Osone | ||
| 1949 | Masa Taguchi | |
| Oshin | ||
| Oshin | ||
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Taka | ||
| Tokie | ||
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| 1947 | N/A | |
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| 1946 | Madame Noge | |
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| Fusako Osone | ||
| 1945 | N/A | |
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| 1944 | Setsu | |
| 1942 | N/A | |
| 1941 | N/A | |
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| 1940 | N/A | |
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| 1938 | Midwife Yae | |
| 1937 | Marieda Matsushima | |
| 1932 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
