Haruko Sugimura

Known for

Acting

Born

Jan 6, 1909

Died

Apr 4, 1997

From

Hiroshima, Japan

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.

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Tokyo Story

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Late Spring

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Kwaidan

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Red Beard

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An Autumn Afternoon

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Good Morning

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Early Summer

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Floating Weeds

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Tokyo Twilight

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The End of Summer

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Early Spring

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No Regrets for Our Youth

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Princess Yang Kwei-fei

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Samurai Assassin

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Repast

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Late Chrysanthemums

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Flowing

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With Beauty and Sorrow

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