Haruko Sugimura
January 7, 1909 · 117 years old
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 coupl…
Known For
15 titles
Tokyo Story
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Red Beard
In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
Late Spring
Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
Good Morning
Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
Early Summer
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
Floating Weeds
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
No Regrets for Our Youth
The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
Early Spring
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...
With Beauty and Sorrow
Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famo...
The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part II
In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.
The Outcast
A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.
A Woman's Place
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.