
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.

Good Morning
MOVIE • 1959

Kwaidan
MOVIE • 1965

Tokyo Story
MOVIE • 1953

Red Beard
MOVIE • 1965

An Autumn Afternoon
MOVIE • 1962

An Early Autumn
TV • 1987

Late Spring
MOVIE • 1949

Samurai Assassin
MOVIE • 1965

Early Spring
MOVIE • 1956

The End of Summer
MOVIE • 1961

Tokyo Twilight
MOVIE • 1957

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
MOVIE • 1960

Second generation
TV • 1970

I Lived, But...
MOVIE • 1983

G-Men of Japan
MOVIE • 1948

Spring Awakens
MOVIE • 1947

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
MOVIE • 1949

The Three Treasures
MOVIE • 1959