Actor/Actress Female 🇯🇵 Japon

Haruko Sugimura

Харуко Сугимура · هاروکو سوگیمورا

Naissance

7 January 1909 (88 ans)

Décès

1997-04-04

Lieu de naissance

Hiroshima, Japan

Métier

Actor/Actress

Rôles principaux

Kwaidan Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea") Red Beard Kin, the madam An Autumn Afternoon Tomoko Sakuma The End of Summer Katou Shige Samurai Assassin Tsuru

Biographie

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).

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.

Filmographie