Haruko Sugimura


Haruko Sugimura was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujirō 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. She starred in Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums.
She refused the Order of Culture award.

Selected filmography

Film