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,
Born
Jan 06, 1909
Hiroshima, Japan
Died
Apr 04, 1997
Known For
Acting
Movies
122 acting
0 crew
Popularity
1.4
Known For
Red Beard
1965
as Kin, the madam
Late Spring
1949
as Masa Taguchi
Tokyo Story
1953
as Shige Kaneko
The End of Summer
1961
as Katou Shige
Kwaidan
1965
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Good Morning
1959
as Kikue Haraguchi
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Tomoko Sakuma
Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Shigeko Takeuchi
Early Summer
1951
as Tami Yabe
Floating Weeds
1959
as Oyoshi
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