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Haruko Sugimura
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.
As actor
A Last Note
The Written Face
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Sakura-tai Chiru
I Lived, But...
The Fossil
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
The Petrified Forest
Onna no hanamichi
Only Child
Slave Factory
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Daphne
Red Beard
Kwaidan
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Samurai Assassin
With Beauty and Sorrow
The Scent of Incense
Night Scandal
Jidanya
Youth After School
Mother
The Navy
Till Tomorrow Is
Musume to watashi
Their Legacy
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
The Broken Commandment
The Wiser Age