Haruko Sugimura

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Haruko Sugimura

from Meshi, 1951

Born

January 6, 1909
Hiroshima, Japan

Died

April 4, 1997 (aged 88)
Tokyo, Japan

Years active

1937-1995

Awards won
Other Awards
Japanese Academy Prize Special Award, 1998 Mainichi Film Concours Special Award 1998 Mainichi Film Concours Best Actress 1995 A Last Note Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actress 1954 An Inlet of Muddy Water

In this Japanese name, the family name is 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 1940's to the early 1960's. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the hypocritical, selfish hairdresser in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).