
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.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
The titles people know Haruko from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Yoko Morimoto

as Kafu's Mother

1 episode
as Itsuki's stepmother

2 episodes

as Mother-in-Law · 8 episodes


1 episode


as Narrator (voice)

as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

as Ine's Mother
as Kin, the madam
as Otoko's Mother
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
as Oyoshi
as Narrator

as Osai

as Fusa Yoshino
as Kikue Haraguchi
as Sonoe
as Mother
as Masa Taguchi
as Oshin
as Oshin



as Taka


as Tokie

as Midwife Yae

as Marieda Matsushima

The people who keep turning up in Haruko’s titles.








