Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

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...

Known For

Tokyo Story

as Shige Kaneko

Late Spring

as Masa Taguchi

Red Beard

as Kin, the madam

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