Haruko Sugimura
Birthday: 1909-01-07
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Japan
Biography: 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 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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The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Jidanya
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agent...
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Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...
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Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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G-Men of Japan
The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team ...
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Youth After School
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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Their Legacy
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmar...
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Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpect...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine...
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Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w...
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The Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, i...
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Morning for the Osone Family
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during W...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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The Petrified Forest
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood frie...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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White Heron
OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But ther...
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A Diary of Our Love
Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story....
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Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....
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The Story of Shunkin
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy busines...
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The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to ...
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The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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Dorei kōjō
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union....
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Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...
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The Gambler's Code
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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Freedom School
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surpri...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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Temptation
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his...
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The Written Face
In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role...
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The Crowded Train
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing ...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese stu...
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Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from ...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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Deep River Melody
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's ...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was no...
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Spring on Leper's Island
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony....
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Goodbye to Glory
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country....
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Runway to Hell
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samura...
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Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l...
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Children Hand in Hand
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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The Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli...
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Beauty the Enemy
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracte...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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Wedding Day
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep...
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The Navy
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th...
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Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, ...
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Namiko
An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Elect...
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Three-Fingered Detective
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony....
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With Beauty and Sorrow
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel ...
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Onna no hanamichi
A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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Nightingale
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves....
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The Wind Blows Twice
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a ...
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Ōhinata-mura
The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village hea...
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Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while ...
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