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6 January 1909(Hiroshima, Japan)
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4 April 1997(Tokyo, Japan)
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Biography
Introduction
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 Yasujirō 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). She starred in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums (1954).
She refused the Order of Culture award.
- Haruko Sugimura, actress
Selected filmography
Film
- Wedding Day (1940)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
- Late Spring (1949)
- Until We Meet Again (1950)
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950)
- Repast (1951)
- Early Summer (1951)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
- Life of a Woman (1953)
- Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
- Keisatsu Nikki (1955)
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
- Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)
- Nagareru (1956)
- Early Spring (1956)
- Tokyo Twilight (1957)
- Good Morning (1959)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
- Hangyakuji (反逆児) (1961)
- The End of Summer (1961)
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Mother (1963)
- Kwaidan (1964)
- With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Samurai Assassin (1965)
- The Fossil (1975)
- A Last Note (1995)
Television
- Sekigahara (1981) – Kita no mandokoro
Awards
- 1951: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress - Repast and Early Summer
- 1954: Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actress - An Inlet of Muddy Water and Tokyo Story
- 1974: Person of Cultural Merit
- 1992: Honorary citizen of Tokyo
- 1995: Mainichi Film Concours Best Actress - A Last Note
- 1996: Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actress - A Last Note
- 1998: Mainichi Film Concours Special Award
- 1998: Japanese Academy Prize Special Award