Haruko Sugimura
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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.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | A Last Note | Yoko Morimoto | HIT | |
| 1992 | The Strange Tale of Oyuki | Kafu's Mother | HIT | |
| 1983 | I Lived, But... | Self | HIT | |
| 1975 | The Fossil | Itsuki's stepmother | HIT | |
| 1973 | The Petrified Forest | - | FLOP | |
| 1967 | The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka | - | FLOP | |
| 1965 | Red Beard | Kin, the madam | HIT | |
| 1965 | Kwaidan | Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") | HIT | |
| 1965 | Samurai Assassin | Tsuru | HIT | |
| 1964 | The Scent of Incense | Taromaru | HIT | |
| 1963 | Mother | Yoshie | HIT | |
| 1962 | An Autumn Afternoon | Tomoko Sakuma | HIT | |
| 1962 | The Broken Commandment | School master's wife | HIT | |
| 1962 | The Wiser Age | Aki | HIT | |
| 1961 | The Conspirator | - | FLOP | |
| 1961 | The End of Summer | Katou Shige | HIT | |
| 1961 | The Gambler's Code | Oroku | HIT | |
| 1960 | Deep River Melody | - | FLOP | |
| 1960 | The Woman Who Touched Legs | Pickpocket Haruko | FLOP | |
| 1960 | Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Kayo Tani | HIT | |
| 1960 | Runway to Hell | Okuma | HIT | |
| 1959 | Floating Weeds | Oyoshi | HIT | |
| 1959 | Good Morning | Kikue Haraguchi | HIT | |
| 1958 | The Spell of the Hidden Gold | Sonoe | FLOP | |
| 1958 | Summer Clouds | Mother | HIT | |
| 1957 | Tokyo Twilight | Shigeko Takeuchi | HIT | |
| 1957 | The Crowded Train | Otome, the mother | HIT | |
| 1956 | Flowing | Someka | HIT | |
| 1956 | Early Spring | Tamako Tamura | HIT | |
| 1955 | She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Masao's mother | HIT | |
| 1955 | The Romance of Yushima | - | FLOP | |
| 1955 | Princess Yang Kwei-fei | Princess Yen-chun | HIT | |
| 1955 | Policeman's Diary | Moyo Sugita | HIT | |
| 1954 | Late Chrysanthemums | Kin | HIT | |
| 1953 | An Inlet of Muddy Water | - | FLOP | |
| 1953 | Tokyo Story | Shige Kaneko | HIT | |
| 1951 | Repast | Matsu Murata | HIT | |
| 1951 | Early Summer | Tami Yabe | HIT | |
| 1950 | Listen to the Voices of the Sea | - | HIT | |
| 1950 | Till We Meet Again | Suga Ono | FLOP | |
| 1949 | Late Spring | Masa Taguchi | HIT | |
| 1949 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 | Oshin | HIT | |
| 1949 | Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 | Oshin | HIT | |
| 1948 | Temptation | Tokie | FLOP | |
| 1947 | Spring Awakens | - | HIT | |
| 1946 | No Regrets for Our Youth | Madame Noge | HIT | |
| 1946 | A Descendant of Urashima Taro | - | FLOP | |
| 1946 | Morning for the Osone Family | Fusako Osone | HIT | |
| 1944 | Army | Setsu | HIT | |
| 1940 | Spring on Leper's Island | - | FLOP |