Acting
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.
Titles
Tokyo Story
1953
Red Beard
1965
Kwaidan
1965
Late Spring
1949
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Good Morning
1959
Floating Weeds
1959
The End of Summer
1961
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Three Treasures
1959
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Samurai Assassin
1965
The Fossil
1975
The Written Face
1995
The Broken Commandment
1962
Early Spring
1956
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
Early Summer
1951
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Hadaka no Machi
1957
Their Legacy
1962
The Crowded Train
1957
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Summer Clouds
1958
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Fossil
1972
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Geisha Konatsu
1954
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Flowing
1956
Buddha
1961
G-Men of Japan
1948
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Second generation
1970
Runway to Hell
1960