Acting
Haruko Sugimura
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.
Titles
Late Spring
1949
Red Beard
1965
Tokyo Story
1953
The End of Summer
1961
Kwaidan
1965
Repast
1951
Floating Weeds
1959
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Good Morning
1959
Early Summer
1951
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Fossil
1972
Early Spring
1956
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Samurai Assassin
1965
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
The Three Treasures
1959
The Written Face
1995
The Petrified Forest
1973
Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
The Scent of Incense
1964
Flowing
1956
The Fossil
1975
Spring Awakens
1947
An Early Autumn
1987
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Buddha
1961
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
Beauty of Life
1951
The Crowded Train
1957
Army
1944
The Wiser Age
1962
Second generation
1970
The Romance of Yushima
1955