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Haruko Sugimura

Acting

21 movies available on YTS

Actor info

  • Name :

    Haruko Sugimura

  • Born :

    January 6, 1909 in Hiroshima, Japan (88 years at death)

  • Died :

    April 4, 1997

  • Known for :

    Acting

  • Gender :

    Female

  • Film career :

    115 films (1932–1995)

  • Also known as :

    Харуко Сугимура, هاروکو سوگیمورا, 杉村春子

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Biography

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.

Notable films

21 YIFY Movies starring Haruko Sugimura