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Haruko Sugimura
Known for: ActingHaruko 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.
Filmography 23
Red Beard
as Kin, the madam 
Late Spring
as Masa Taguchi 
Tokyo Story
as Shige Kaneko 
The End of Summer
as Katou Shige 
Repast
as Matsu Murata 
An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko Sakuma 
Good Morning
as Kikue Haraguchi 
Early Summer
as Tami Yabe 
Floating Weeds
as Oyoshi 
Early Spring
as Tamako Tamura 
Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko Takeuchi 
Samurai Assassin
as Tsuru 
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yen-chun 
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Noge 
The Written Face
as Self 
Flowing
as Someka 
Late Chrysanthemums
as Kin 
Army
as Setsu 
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's Mother 
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono Kujirai 
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Oshin 
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's mother