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Haruko Sugimura in May 1953.
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Born |
Hiroshima, Japan |
January 6, 1909
Died | April 4, 1997 Tokyo, Japan |
(aged 88)
Years active | 1927-1995 |
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). She starred in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums (1954).