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Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Acting • 1909-01-06 • Hiroshima, Japan

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, 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.

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Tokyo Story8.2

Tokyo Story

1953

Late Spring8.0

Late Spring

1949

Good Morning7.7

Good Morning

1959

Floating Weeds7.5

Floating Weeds

1959

No Regrets for Our Youth6.9

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

Late Chrysanthemums7.2

Late Chrysanthemums

1954

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