Haruko Sugimura
Acting
Jan 6, 1909 – Apr 4, 1997 · Hiroshima, Japan
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.
as Shige Kaneko
as Masa Taguchi
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
as Kin, the madam
as Tomoko Sakuma
as Kikue Haraguchi
as Tami Yabe
as Oyoshi
as Shigeko Takeuchi
as Katou Shige
as Tamako Tamura
as Madame Noge
as Princess Yen-chun
as Tsuru
