Haruko Sugimura
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Haruko Sugimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Good Morning
as Kikue HaraguchiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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Tokyo Story
as Shige KanekoThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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Late Spring
as Masa TaguchiNoriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to...
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Early Summer
as Tami YabeA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Kwaidan
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Red Beard
as Kin, the madamAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Early Spring
as Tamako TamuraA young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as Tomoko SakumaShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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Floating Weeds
as OyoshiWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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Tokyo Twilight
as Shigeko TakeuchiTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame NogeYukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved...
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as Princess Yen-chunIn eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family...
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Samurai Assassin
as TsuruJapan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...
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The End of Summer
as Katou ShigeThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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With Beauty and Sorrow
as Otoko's MotherWhen the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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The Lights of Asakusa
as Marieda MatsushimaPre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as KinWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
as uncreditedAbout small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as Kafu's MotherA story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of...
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Beauty the Enemy
as Fusa YoshinoIn a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are...
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao's motherOn the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and...
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Army
as SetsuA widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as OshinPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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The Scent of Incense
as TaromaruAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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Children Hand in Hand
as uncreditedA small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
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The Three Treasures
as NarratorThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Buddha
as VaidehiAn Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...
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Repast
as Matsu MurataMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook...
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The Broken Commandment
as School master's wifeUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Sunflower Girl
as uncreditedYoung Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as KoyabuEbihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as OshinIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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G-Men of Japan
as uncreditedThe investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative...
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The Gambler's Code
as OrokuOne of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who...
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Flowing
as SomekaOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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Policeman's Diary
as Moyo SugitaLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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The Conspirator
as uncreditedYoung lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime,...
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White Heron
as uncreditedOSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But...
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Deep River Melody
as uncreditedA poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's...
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The Wiser Age
as AkiDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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The Petrified Forest
as uncreditedFollows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Kayo TaniSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Till We Meet Again
as Suga OnoSaburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Temptation
as TokieA young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
as uncreditedA documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived...
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Morning for the Osone Family
as Fusako OsoneA Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them...
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Summer Clouds
as MotherA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as Kono KujiraiA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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The Fossil
as Itsuki's stepmotherAn industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...
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A Last Note
as Yoko MorimotoA retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has...
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The Romance of Yushima
as uncreditedHayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much...
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The Crowded Train
as Otome, the motherTamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do...
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Three-Fingered Detective
as uncreditedBeing acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding...
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Freedom School
as uncreditedMinamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as uncreditedThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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The Story of Shunkin
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy...
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The Navy
as uncreditedA tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
as uncreditedThis film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese...
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The Written Face
as SelfIn Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's...
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Spring Awakens
as uncreditedSlice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Runway to Hell
as OkumaWhen Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the...
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Goodbye to Glory
as Fukunaga's mother YukiA story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
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Dorei kōjō
as uncreditedAfter the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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Reminiscence
as ChikakoKazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of...
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Their Legacy
as uncreditedHeitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four...
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A Diary of Our Love
as uncreditedDrama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.
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Onna no hanamichi
as uncreditedA film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as Ine's MotherYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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Samurai of the Great Earth
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".
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Nightingale
as Midwife YaeAn episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Pickpocket HarukoDetective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she...
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Spring on Leper's Island
as uncreditedA female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.
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The Wind Blows Twice
as uncreditedKanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her...
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Mother
as YoshieA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life...
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The Daphne
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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Youth After School
as Ayako"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Namiko
as uncreditedAn early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western...
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Jidanya
as uncreditedEvery day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement...
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An Early Autumn
as uncreditedA former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only...
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