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 films of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura in May 1953.
Born(1909-01-06)January 6, 1909
Hiroshima, Japan
DiedApril 4, 1997(1997-04-04) (aged 88)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationActress
Years active1927–1995

Born in Hiroshima, she joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre), Tokyo, in 1927, and later co-founded the Bungakuza theatre company.[1][2] She made her film debut in 1932 in Eizo Tanaka's Namiko (1932).[lower-alpha 1] In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).[3] Other important film roles include Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums (1954) and Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953).[5] For her film performances, she received the Blue Ribbon Award, the Kinema Junpo Award and the Mainichi Film Award.

On stage, she was successful as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Gertrude in Hamlet and Asako Kageyama in Yukio Mishima's Rokumeikan.[3] Her most popular and often repeated stage role was Kei Nunobiki in Kaoru Morimoto's A Woman's Life.[2] In 1995 she refused the Order of Culture award.[3]

Filmography

Film
  • Namiko (1932)
  • Asakusa no hi (1937)
  • Uguisu (1938)
  • Wedding Day (1940)
  • Okumura Ioko (1940)
  • Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
  • Ōhinata-mura (1940)
  • Waga ai no ki (1941)
  • Shirasagi (1941)
  • Jirō monogatari (1941)
  • Nankai no hanataba (1942) - Nobuko Hotta
  • Haha no chizu (1942) - Isano Kishi
  • Gekiryu (1944)
  • Army (1944) - Setsu
  • Kanjōkai no bara (1945)
  • Umi no yobu koe (1945)
  • Ōsone-ke no ashita (1946) - Fusako Ōsone
  • Urashima Tarō no kōei (1946)
  • No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) - Madame Noge, Ryukichi's mother
  • Yottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) - Yukiko's mother (episode 1)
  • Joen (1947)
  • Haru no mezame (1947)
  • Sanbon yubi no otoko (1947) - Itoko
  • Yuwaku (1948) - Tokie
  • Te o tsunagu kora (1948)
  • Idainaru X (1948) - Taka
  • Toki no teizo: zengohen (1948)
  • Kurogumo kaido (1948)
  • Koku'un kaido (1948)
  • Beni imada kiezu (1949)
  • Yotsuya kaidan (1949) - Omaki
  • Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan: kōhen (1949) - Omaki
  • Late Spring (1949) - Masa Taguchi
  • Onna no shiki (1950)
  • Until We Meet Again (1950) - Ono Suga
  • Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) - Kohagi Nakamura
  • Eriko to tomoni Part I + II (1951) - Harue Matsumura
  • Jiyū gakkō (1951)
  • Early Summer (1951) - Tami Yabe
  • Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) - Kono Kujirai
  • Repast (1951) - Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
  • Inochi uruwashi (1951) - Mine Imura
  • Seishun kaigi (1952) - Tamiyo
  • Genroku suikoden (1952) - Onui
  • Kaze futatabi (1952)
  • Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952) - Tsuruko Fujimura
  • Wakai hito (1952)
  • Senba zuru (1953) - Chikako Kurimoto
  • Montenrupa: Bokyo no uta (1953)
  • Kimi ni sasageshi inochi nariseba (1953)
  • Tokyo Story (1953) - Shige Kaneko
  • Life of a Woman (1953) - Tamae, Shintaro's mother
  • An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) - O-Hatsu (story 3)
  • Geisha Konatsu (1954) - Raku Kamioka
  • Late Chrysanthemums (1954) - Kin
  • Shunkin monogatari (1954) - Oei
  • Kunsho (1954)
  • Meiji ichidai onna (1955) - Ohide
  • Keisatsu Nikki (1955) - Moyo Sugita, a go-between
  • Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) - Princess Yen-chun
  • Geisha Konatsu: Hitori neru yo no Konatsu (1955) - Raku Kamioka
  • She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) - Masao's mother
  • Aogashima no kodomotachi - Onna kyōshi no kiroku (1956) - Chie Yamada
  • Early Spring (1956) - Tamako Tamura
  • Yonjū-hassai no teikō (1956) - Satoko, Kotaro's wife
  • Nagareru (1956) - Someka
  • Onna no ashi ato (1956)
  • The Crowded Streetcar (1957) - Otome, the mother
  • Tokyo Twilight (1957) - Shigeko Takeuchi
  • Kanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958) - Chiyoko
  • Hana no bojō (1958) - Rie Ikegami
  • Iwashigumo (1958) - Mother
  • Nemuri Kyōshirō burai hikae: Maken jigoku (1958) - Sonoe
  • Good Morning (1959) - Kikue Haraguchi
  • Bibō ni tsumi ari (1959) - Fusa Yoshino
  • Anyakōro (1959) - Osai
  • Kashimanada no onna (1959)
  • The Three Treasures (1959) - Narrator
  • Floating Weeds (1959) - Oyoshi
  • Tenpō rokkasen - Jigoku no hanamichi (1960) - Okuma
  • Musume tsuma haha (1960) - Kayo Tani
  • Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) - Kayo Tani
  • Ashi ni sawatta onna (1960) - Pickpocket Haruko
  • Furyu fukagawata (1960)
  • Banana (1960)
  • Kutsukake Tokijirō (1961) - Oroku
  • The End of Summer (1961) - Katou Shige
  • Buddha (1961) - Vaidehi
  • Hangyakuji (1961)
  • Katei no jijō (1962) - Mrs. Yoshii
  • Onna no za (1962) - Aki, Ishikawa-ke no gosai
  • Ashita aru kagiri (1962)
  • Musume to watashi (1962) - Kiyo Kitagawa
  • The Outcast (1962) - School master's wife
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962) - Tomoko
  • Kaigun (1963)
  • Mother (1963) - Yoshie
  • The Scent of Incense (1964) - Taromaru
  • Akujo (1964) - Hatsu Mimura
  • Kwaidan (1964) - Madame (story 4)
  • Samurai Assassin (1965) - Tsuru
  • With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) - Otoko's mother
  • Red Beard (1965) - Kin, the madam
  • Daikon to ninjin (1965)
  • Dark the Mountain Snow (1966) - Ine's mother
  • Jinchoge (1966) - Aki Ueno, Daphne
  • Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma (1967) - Narrator
  • Hitorikko (1969)
  • Kaseki no mori (1973)
  • Akumyo: shima arashi (1974) - Ito
  • Kaseki (1974) - Mother-in-law
  • Bokuto kidan (1992) - Kafu's mother
  • A Last Note (1995) - Yoko Morimoto

Television (selected)
  • Sekigahara (1981) - Kita no mandokoro

Awards

Notes
  1. Although the Japanese Movie Database and Internet Movie Database list Yasujirō Shimazu's Asakusa no hi as Sugimura's film debut, she had previously appeared in a small role in Tanaka's Namiko.[3][4]

References
  1. Kiuchi, Noboru. "杉村春子　自分で選んだ道ですもの (Haruko Sugimura – This is the path I chose)". Nikkei Style. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J.; Liu, Siyuan; Mee, Erin B. (2014). Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900–2000. London, New York: Bloomsbury. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4081-7720-4.
  3. Daniel, Rob (8 April 1997). "Obituary: Haruko Sugimura". The Independent. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  4. 川本三郎 (Saburo Kawamoto) (1996). 君美わしく―戦後日本映画女優讃 (Your beauty: Post-war Japanese film actresses). Tokyo: 文藝春秋 (Bungeishunjū). p. 147. ISBN 978-4-16-352390-3.
  5. Kirkup, James (11 October 2017). "Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama". electric-shadows.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
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