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 Yasujirō 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).[1] She starred in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums (1954).[2]

Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura in May 1953.
Born(1909-01-06)January 6, 1909
Hiroshima, Japan
DiedApril 4, 1997(1997-04-04) (aged 88)
Tokyo, Japan
Years active1927–1995

She refused the Order of Culture award.[3]


Selected filmography

Film
  • Asakusa no hi (1937)
  • Uguisu (1938)
  • Wedding Day (1940)
  • Okumura Ioko (1940)
  • Kojima no haru (1940)
  • Ôhinata-mura (1940)
  • Waga ai no ki (1941)
  • Shirasagi (1941)
  • Jirô monogatari (1941)
  • Nankai no hanataba (1942) - Nobuko Hotta
  • Haha no chizu (1942) - Isano Kishi
  • Gekiryu (1944)
  • Army (1944) - Setsu
  • Kanjôkai no bara (1945)
  • Umi no yobu koe (1945)
  • Ôsone-ke no ashita (1946) - Fusako Ôsone
  • Urashima Tarô no kôei (1946)
  • No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) - Madame Noge, Ryukichi's mother
  • Yottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) - Yukiko's mother (episode 1)
  • Joen (1947)
  • Haru no mezame (1947)
  • Sanbon yubi no otoko (1947) - Itoko
  • Yuwaku (1948) - Tokie
  • Te o tsunagu kora (1948)
  • Idainaru X (1948) - Taka
  • Toki no teizo: zengohen (1948)
  • Kurogumo kaido (1948)
  • Koku'un kaido (1948)
  • Beni imada kiezu (1949)
  • Yotsuya kaidan (1949) - Omaki
  • Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan: kôhen (1949) - Omaki
  • Late Spring (1949) - Masa Taguchi
  • Onna no shiki (1950)
  • Until We Meet Again (1950) - Ono Suga
  • Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) - Kohagi Nakamura
  • Eriko to tomoni (1951. part 1, 2) - Harue Matsumura
  • Jiyû gakkô (1951)
  • Early Summer (1951) - Tami Yabe
  • Umi no hanabi (1951) - Kono Kujirai
  • Repast (1951) - Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
  • Inochi uruwashi (1951) - Mine Imura
  • Seishun kaigi (1952) - Tamiyo
  • Genroku suikoden (1952) - Onui
  • Kaze futatabi (1952)
  • Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952) - Tsuruko Fujimura
  • Wakai hito (1952)
  • Senba zuru (1953) - Chikako Kurimoto
  • Montenrupa: Bokyo no uta (1953)
  • Kimi ni sasageshi inochi nariseba (1953)
  • Tokyo Story (1953) - Shige Kaneko
  • Life of a Woman (1953) - Tamae, Shintaro's mother
  • An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) - O-Hatsu (Story 3)
  • Geisha Konatsu (1954) - Raku Kamioka
  • Late Chrysanthemums (1954) - Kin
  • Shunkin monogatari (1954) - Oei
  • Kunsho (1954)
  • Meiji ichidai onna (1955) - Ohide
  • Keisatsu Nikki (1955) - Moyo Sugita, a go-between
  • Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) - Princess Yen-chun
  • Geisha Konatsu: Hitori neru yo no Konatsu (1955) - Raku Kamioka
  • She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) - Masao's mother
  • Aogashima no kodomotachi - Onna kyôshi no kiroku (1956) - Chie Yamada
  • Early Spring (1956) - Tamako Tamura
  • Yonjû-hassai no teikô (1956) - Satoko, Kotaro's wife
  • Nagareru (1956) - Someka
  • Onna no ashi ato (1956)
  • The Crowded Streetcar (1957) - Otome, the mother
  • Tokyo Twilight (1957) - Shigeko Takeuchi
  • Kanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958) - Chiyoko
  • Hana no bojô (1958) - Rie Ikegami
  • Iwashigumo (1958) - Mother
  • Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae: Maken jigoku (1958) - Sonoe
  • Good Morning (1959) - Kikue Haraguchi
  • Bibô ni tsumi ari (1959) - Fusa Yoshino
  • Anyakôro (1959) - Osai
  • Kashimanada no onna (1959)
  • The Three Treasures (1959) - Narrator
  • Floating Weeds (1959) - Oyoshi
  • Tenpô rokkasen - Jigoku no hanamichi (1960) - Okuma
  • Musume tsuma haha (1960) - Kayo Tani
  • Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) - Kayo Tani
  • Ashi ni sawatta onna (1960) - Pickpocket Haruko
  • Furyu fukagawata (1960)
  • Banana (1960)
  • Kutsukake Tokijirô (1961) - Oroku
  • The End of Summer (1961) - Katou Shige
  • Buddha (1961) - Vaidehi
  • Hangyakuji (反逆児) (1961)
  • Katei no jijô (1962) - Mrs. Yoshii
  • Onna no za (1962) - Aki, Ishikawa-ke no gosai
  • Ashita aru kagiri (1962)
  • Musume to watashi (1962) - Kiyo Kitagawa
  • The Outcast (1962) - School master's wife
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962) - Tomoko
  • Kaigun (1963)
  • Mother (1963) - Yoshie
  • Kôge - Ichibu: Waremokô no shô (1964) - Taromaru
  • Akujo (1964) - Hatsu Mimura
  • Kwaidan (1964) - Madame (segment "Chawan no naka")
  • Samurai Assassin (1965) - Tsuru
  • With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) - Otoko's mother
  • Red Beard (1965) - Kin, the madam
  • Daikon to ninjin (1965)
  • Dark the Mountain Snow (1966) - Ine's mother
  • Jinchoge (1966) - Aki Ueno, Daphne
  • Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma (1967) - Narrator
  • Hitorikko (1969)
  • Kaseki no mori (1973)
  • Akumyo: shima arashi (1974) - Ito
  • Kaseki (1974) - Mother-in-law
  • Bokuto kidan (1992) - Kafu's mother
  • A Last Note (1995) - Yoko Morimoto (final film role)

Television
  • Sekigahara (1981) - Kita no mandokoro

Awards

References
  1. Kirkup, James (8 April 1997). "Obituary: Haruko Sugimura - People - News - The Independent". The Independent.
  2. Rosenbaum, Jonathan (23 February 2006). "Geishas Without Diaries - Movie Review - Chicago Reader". Chicago Reader.
  3. Onishi, Norimitsu (May 17, 2008). "The Saturday Profile: Released From Rigors of a Trial, a Nobel Laureate's Ink Flows Freely". New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
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