Haruko Sugimura

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Haruko Sugimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Tokyo Story

as Shige Kaneko

Late Spring

as Masa Taguchi

Kwaidan

as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Red Beard

as Kin, the madam

An Autumn Afternoon

as Tomoko Sakuma

Good Morning

as Kikue Haraguchi

Floating Weeds

as Oyoshi

Early Summer

as Tami Yabe

Tokyo Twilight

as Shigeko Takeuchi

The End of Summer

as Katou Shige