🎬Haruko Sugimura

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	A Last Note (1995)	Yoko Morimoto		4
2	I Lived, But... (1983)	Self		7
3	Red Beard (1965)	Kin, the madam		8.7
4	Samurai Assassin (1965)	Tsuru		6
5	Kwaidan (1965)	Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")		7
6	An Autumn Afternoon (1962)	Tomoko Sakuma		8
7	The Broken Commandment (1962)	School master's wife		3
8	The Conspirator (1961)	-		4
9	Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)	Kayo Tani		2
10	Good Morning (1959)	Kikue Haraguchi		7.5
11	Floating Weeds (1959)	Oyoshi	-	-
12	Summer Clouds (1958)	Mother		5
13	Tokyo Twilight (1957)	Shigeko Takeuchi		1
14	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)	Masao's mother		5
15	An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)	-		4
16	Tokyo Story (1953)	Shige Kaneko		7.2
17	Repast (1951)	Matsu Murata	-	-
18	Early Summer (1951)	Tami Yabe		4.5
19	Till We Meet Again (1950)	Suga Ono		5
20	Late Spring (1949)	Masa Taguchi		4.5
21	Spring Awakens (1947)	-		5
22	No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)	Madame Noge		4
23	Morning for the Osone Family (1946)	Fusako Osone		5
24	Army (1944)	Setsu		6
25	Spring on Leper's Island (1940)	-		5