Haruko Sugimura
January 7, 1909 (116 years old) in Hiroshima, Japan
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1995 · The Written Face as Self
- 1995 · A Last Note as Yoko Morimoto
- 1992 · The Strange Tale of Oyuki as Kafu's Mother
- 1988 · Sakura-tai Chiru as
- 1987 · An Early Autumn as
- 1983 · I Lived, But... as Self
- 1975 · The Fossil as Itsuki's stepmother
- 1974 · Akumyo: Notorious Dragon as
- 1973 · 雪の華 as
- 1973 · The Petrified Forest as
- 1971 · Onna no hanamichi as
- 1970 · Second generation as
- 1969 · Only Child as
- 1968 · Dorei kōjō as
- 1967 · The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as
- 1966 · The Daphne as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
- 1965 · Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi as Ine's Mother
- 1965 · Red Beard as Kin, the madam
- 1965 · With Beauty and Sorrow as Otoko's Mother
- 1965 · Kwaidan as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
- 1965 · Samurai Assassin as Tsuru
- 1964 ·