Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura (right) from a scene in the movie Late Chrysanthemums
Born	January 6, 1909(1909-01-06) Hiroshima, Japan
Died	April 4, 1997(1997-04-04) (aged 88) Tokyo, Japan
Years active	1937-1995
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 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).

Selected filmography

1946 – No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishin ni kuinashi)
1949 – Late Spring (Banshun)
1950 – Listen to the Voices of the Sea (Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki: Kike wadatsumi no koe)
1951 – Repast (Meshi)
1951 – Early Summer (Bakushuu)
1953 – Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari)
1953 - An Inlet of Muddy Water
1954 – Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku)
1956 – Flowing (Nagareru)
1956 – Early Spring (Soshun)
1957 – Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku)
1959 – Good Morning (Ohayoo)
1959 – Floating Weeds (Ukigusa])
1962 – An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)
1965 – Red Beard (Akahige)
1995 - A Last Note

External links

IMDb entry

Persondata
Name	Sugimura, Haruko
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1909-1-6
Place of birth	Hiroshima, Japan
Date of death	1997-4-4
Place of death	Tokyo, Japan