Personal details
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Born
6 enero 1909
Died
4 abril 1997
Place of birth
Hiroshima, Japan
Also known as
هاروکو سوگیمورا
Biography
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.
Conocido por
8.1
Film
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
1953
7.7
Film
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
1959
7.7
Film
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
7.5
Film
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
1961
7.9
Film
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
1962
8.0
Film
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
1949
8.2
Film
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
1965
6.2
Film
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Acting credits 8 titles
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam
8.2
1965
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma
7.9
1962
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige
7.5
1961
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi
7.7
1959
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi
7.7
1957
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko
8.1
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.2
1953
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi
8.0
1949